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| PAPUA NEW GUINEAN CRIME STATS: |
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Acquitted
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727 |
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[33rd of 30]
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Adults prosecuted
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1,041 |
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[32nd of 28]
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Assaults
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1,351 |
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[46th of 49]
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Burglaries
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2,618 |
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[43rd of 38]
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Car thefts
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763 |
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[47th of 46]
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Illicit drugs
major consumer of cannabis |
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Jails
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9,474 |
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[4th of 80]
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Murders
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465 |
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[27th of 49]
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Police
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5,462 |
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[43rd of 47]
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Prisoners
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3,302 prisoners |
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[105th of 168]
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Prisoners > Female
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4.2% |
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[62nd of 134]
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Prisoners > Foreign prisoners
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0% |
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[85th of 86]
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Prisoners > Per capita
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66 per 100,000 people |
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[117th of 164]
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Rapes
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1,295 |
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[23rd of 50]
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Robberies
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3,394 |
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[36th of 47]
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Sentence Length
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24 |
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[20th of 21]
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Total crimes
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13,292 |
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[56th of 50]
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Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Papua New Guinea is a country of destination for women and children from Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and China trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation; internal trafficking of women and children for the purposes of sexual exploitation and involuntary domestic servitude occurs as well |
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 3 - Papua New Guinea does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so; the current legal framework does not contain elements of crimes that characterize trafficking; the government lacks victim protection services or a systematic procedure to identify victims of trafficking; the government did not prosecute anyone in 2007 for trafficking; Papua New Guinea has not ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol |
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Unpaid diplomatic parking fines
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5.5 |
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[81st of 143]
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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); 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); 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; Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets
Ray Fisman Edward Miguel
Columbia University and NBER University of California, Berkeley and NBER 2006
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Papua New Guinea, Independent State of Papua New Guinea, new guinea, papua n.g.
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