NationMaster - South African Crime statistics

Death penalty > Abolition date	1,997	[15th of 64]
Death penalty > Abolition for ordinary crimes	1,995	[1st of 20]
Death penalty > Last executed	1,991	[5th of 55]
Police	101,582	[8th of 47]
Prisoners	181,944 prisoners	[2nd of 0]
Prisoners > Female	2.2%	[107th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners	2.1%	[55th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita	402 per 100,000 people	[10th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees	28.3%	[80th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled	159.4%	[26th of 128]
Rapes	52,425	[2nd of 50]
Robberies	228,442	[3rd of 47]
Sentence Length	48.08	[13th of 21]
Software piracy rate	34%	[89th of 107]
Total crimes	2,683,849	[5th of 50]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation South Africa is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation; women and girls are trafficked internally - and occasionally to European and Asian countries - for sexual exploitation; women from other African countries are trafficked to South Africa and, less frequently, onward to Europe for sexual exploitation; men and boys are trafficked from neighboring countries for forced agricultural labor; Asian and Eastern European women are trafficked to South Africa for debt-bonded sexual exploitation
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating Tier 2 Watch List - South Africa is placed on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to show increasing efforts to address trafficking in 2005
United States extradition treaties > Date signed	September 16, 1999
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force	June 25, 2001
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	34	[26th of 143]

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SOURCES: Last updated: 01/04/03; 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; Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; 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: South Africa, Republic of South Africa, rep. of s. africa, SAFRICA

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Per capita, South Africa has the most assaults, rapes, and murders with firearms.

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COMMENTARY

hello 15th November 2005	In order to get a more accurate percetion of the current situation in S.A, double these stats. Half of all injustices don't even get reported, and maybe half of half gets filed...catch my drift, it's lots worse that what it appears to be from the figures on your screen..my time spent in S.A - 18 years.
Nkanyiso (SA) 1st August 2007	Pls do not bring the world cup. And pls help us because it is not controleble because of More Zimbabweans comming in.
Tawanda (JHB) 6th August 2007	SA's shouldnt be saying these bad things about Zimbabwe, they helped them during their own "time of terror". What then do you want the Red Indians to say to the Americans???? Lets live in peace and harmony.
Leaving (SA) 16th October 2007	South Africa is a mess. Get out while you can. That's all.
Stephan (Pretoria, South Africa) 20th November 2007	These statistics are clearly unreliable. Imagine: the total number of murders in South Africa is some 22000, but then it makes the number committed with firearms 10000 MORE! Interesting arythmetics.
Henk (SA) 27th November 2007	Dear All, Please take note of what you are reading - the source is clearly indicated and is already more than seven (7) years old. (Seventh United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, covering the period 1998 - 2000 (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention)
Sandra Lowe (WITBANK) 3rd December 2007	A very sad situation where things are out of control. One is aware all the time.

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