NationMaster - Ukrainian Crime statistics

Acquitted	755	[31st of 30]
Assaults	5,264	[38th of 49]
Car thefts	3,164	[36th of 46]
Death penalty > Abolition date	1,999	[5th of 64]
Gun violence > Homicides > % homicides with firearms	3.7682	[31st of 32]
Gun violence > Homicides > Firearm homicide rate > per 100,000 pop.	0.3495	[25th of 32]
Gun violence > Homicides > Overall homicide rate > per 100,000 pop.	9.2747	[13th of 32]
Illicit drugs limited cultivation of cannabis and opium poppy, mostly for CIS consumption; some synthetic drug production for export to the West; limited government eradication program; used as transshipment point for opiates and other illicit drugs from Africa, Latin America, and Turkey to Europe and Russia; Ukraine has improved anti-money-laundering controls, resulting in its removal from the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF's) Noncooperative Countries and Territories List in February 2004; Ukraine's anti-money-laundering regime continues to be monitored by FATF
Jails	128	[20th of 80]
Murders	4,418	[9th of 49]
Murders committed by youths	1,273	[9th of 73]
Murders committed by youths per capita	8.7	[18th of 57]
Murders with firearms	173	[10th of 36]
Prisoners	198,386 prisoners	[7th of 168]
Prisoners > Per capita	416 per 100,000 people	[8th of 164]
Rapes	1,151	[28th of 50]
Robberies	21,429	[18th of 47]
Software piracy rate	83%	[16th of 107]
Total crimes	553,594	[18th of 50]
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	12.9	[51st 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; Wikipedia: Gun violence ; 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: Ukraine, Ukrayina

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