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Europe > Portugal > Crime

PORTUGUESE CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acquitted 14,479 [7th of 30]
Assault victims 0.4% [19th of 20]
Assaults 23,378 [20th of 49]
Car thefts 30,560 [13th of 46]
Death penalty > Last executed 1,849 [41st of 55]
Drug offences 3,758 per 100,000 people [25th of 46]
Gun violence > Homicides > % homicides with firearms 25.3776 [14th of 32]
Illicit drugs
seizing record amounts of Latin American cocaine destined for Europe; a European gateway for Southwest Asian heroin; transshipment point for hashish from North Africa to Europe; consumer of Southwest Asian heroin
Kidnappings 432 kidnappings [7th of 39]
Murders 247 [33rd of 49]
Murders with firearms 90 [15th of 36]
Police 45,776 [16th of 47]
Prisoners 13,918 prisoners [27th of 168]
Prisoners > Per capita 130 per 100,000 people [64th of 164]
Rape victims 0.2% [18th of 20]
Rapes 433 [29th of 50]
Robberies 17,362 [13th of 47]
Software piracy rate 43% [81st of 107]
Total crime victims 15.5% [19th of 20]
Total crimes 218,360 [23rd of 50]

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SOURCES: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); UNICRI (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute). 2002. Correspondence on data on crime victims. March. Turin; The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); Last updated: 01/04/03; Wikipedia: Gun violence ; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Portugal, Portuguese Republic, Republica Portuguesa

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