NationMaster - Papua New Guinean Crime statistics

Illicit drugs major consumer of cannabis
Illicit drugs major consumer of cannabis
Jails	9,474	[4th of 0]
Judges and Magistrates	15	[44th of 35]
Murders	465	[27th of 49]
Police	5,462	[43rd of 47]
Prisoners	3,302 prisoners	[105th of 0]
Prisoners > Female	4.2%	[62nd of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners	0%	[85th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita	66 per 100,000 people	[117th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees	35.2%	[62nd of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled	87.4%	[107th of 128]
Rapes	1,295	[23rd of 50]
Robberies	3,394	[36th of 47]
Sentence Length	24	[20th of 21]
Total crimes	13,292	[56th of 50]
United States extradition treaties > Citation	47 Stat. 2122.
United States extradition treaties > Date signed	December 22, 1931
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force	August 30, 1935
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	5.5	[81st of 143]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; 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); 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; Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties ; 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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