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Acquitted
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306,445 |
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[2nd of 30]
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Adults prosecuted
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2,060,060 |
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[2nd of 28]
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Assaults
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53,485 |
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[12th of 49]
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Car thefts
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14,954 |
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[24th of 46]
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Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint
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16.73 %
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[17th of 39]
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Drug offences
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4.6 per 100,000 people |
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[32nd of 46]
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Illicit drugs
key transit route for Southwest Asian heroin to Western Europe and, to a lesser extent, the US - via air, land, and sea routes; major Turkish and other international trafficking organizations operate out of Istanbul; laboratories to convert imported morphine base into heroin exist in remote regions of Turkey and near Istanbul; government maintains strict controls over areas of legal opium poppy cultivation and over output of poppy straw concentrate; lax enforcement of money-laundering controls |
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Jails
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504 |
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[4th of 80]
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Manslaughters
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2,175 |
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[5th of 42]
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Police
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165,833 |
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[6th of 47]
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Prisoners
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64,051 prisoners |
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[8th of 168]
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Prisoners > Female
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3.7% |
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[76th of 134]
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Prisoners > Foreign prisoners
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1.7% |
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[58th of 86]
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Prisoners > Per capita
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92 per 100,000 people |
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[99th of 164]
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Rapes
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1,260 |
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[24th of 50]
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Robberies
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1,633 |
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[47th of 47]
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Sentence Length
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9 |
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[25th of 21]
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Software piracy rate
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65% |
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[51st of 107]
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Total crimes
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286,482 |
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[28th of 50]
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Unpaid diplomatic parking fines
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0 |
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[143rd 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); World Development Indicators database; 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; 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:
Turkey, Republic of Turkey, Turkiye Cumhuriyeti, Turkiye
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