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Europe > Romania > Crime

ROMANIAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acquitted 22,636 [4th of 30]
Assaults 11,137 [23rd of 49]
Burglaries 12,013 [25th of 38]
Car thefts 1,227 [34th of 46]
Death penalty > Abolition date 1,989 [40th of 64]
Death penalty > Last executed 1,989 [7th of 55]
Drug offences 1,291 per 100,000 people [31st of 46]
Illicit drugs
major transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin transiting the Balkan route and small amounts of Latin American cocaine bound for Western Europe; although not a significant financial center, role as a narcotics conduit leaves it vulnerable to laundering, which occurs via the banking system, currency exchange houses, and casinos
Jails 39 [30th of 80]
Kidnappings 383 kidnappings [8th of 39]
Murders 563 [14th of 49]
Murders committed by youths 169 [24th of 73]
Police 46,345 [15th of 47]
Prisoners 48,075 prisoners [14th of 168]
Prisoners > Per capita 193 per 100,000 people [40th of 164]
Rapes 1,253 [16th of 50]
Robberies 3,025 [27th of 47]
Software piracy rate 68% [46th of 107]
Total crimes 312,204 [20th of 50]
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 3.5 [93rd 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); Last updated: 01/04/03; 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); World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002; International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study; 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: Romania, rumania

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