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Europe > Spain > Crime

SPANISH CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acquitted 196,600 [3rd of 30]
Assaults 90,453 [11th of 49]
Bribe payers index 5.3 [12th of 19]
Burglaries 23,856 [24th of 38]
Car thefts 134,584 [9th of 46]
Death penalty > Abolition date 1,995 [21st of 64]
Death penalty > Last executed 1,975 [16th of 55]
Drug offences 27.9 per 100,000 people [26th of 46]
Gun violence > Homicides > % homicides with firearms 16.4129 [20th of 32]
Illicit drugs
despite rigorous law enforcement efforts, North African, Latin American, Galician, and other European traffickers take advantage of Spain's long coastline to land large shipments of cocaine and hashish for distribution to the European market; consumer for Latin American cocaine and North African hashish; destination and minor transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin; money-laundering site for Colombian narcotics trafficking organizations and organized crime
Murders 494 [25th of 49]
Murders committed by youths 96 [34th of 73]
Murders with firearms 97 [15th of 36]
Police 115,656 [10th of 47]
Prisoners 59,251 prisoners [20th of 168]
Prisoners > Per capita 144 per 100,000 people [61st of 164]
Rapes 5,664 [12th of 50]
Robberies 497,262 [1st of 47]
Software piracy rate 43% [79th of 107]
Total crimes 923,271 [16th 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); 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); Transparency International; Last updated: 01/04/03; Wikipedia: Gun violence ; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002; 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: Spain, Kingdom of Spain, Espana

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Alicea temple
30th November 2004
Do you know where I can find any information about crime rate in Spanish cities for example Sevilla
I await your reply
Alicea Temple
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