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Africa > Zimbabwe > Crime

ZIMBABWEAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Manslaughters 969 [9th of 42]
Murders 912 [16th of 49]
Murders with firearms 598 [6th of 36]
Police 20,535 [26th of 47]
Prisoners 0 prisoners [154th of 0]
Prisoners > Female 3.5% [83rd of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners 4.8% [46th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita 0 per 100,000 people [155th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 29.6% [74th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 131.3% [50th of 128]
Rapes 5,567 [13th of 50]
Robberies 11,855 [23rd of 47]
Sentence Length 24 [21st of 21]
Software piracy rate 91% [5th of 107]
Total crimes 351,153 [26th of 50]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Zimbabwe is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation; children may be trafficked internally for forced agricultural labor, domestic servitude, and sexual exploitation; women and girls are lured out of the country to South Africa, China, Egypt, and Zambia with false job or scholarship promises that result in domestic servitude or commercial sexual exploitation; there are reports of South African employers demanding sex from undocumented Zimbabwean workers under threat of deportation; women and children from Malawi, Zambia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo transit Zimbabwe en route to South Africa; small numbers of South African girls are trafficked to Zimbabwe for domestic labor
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 3 - Zimbabwe does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so
United States extradition treaties > Date signed July 25, 1997
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force April 26, 2000
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 45.6 [18th 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); 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: Zimbabwe, Republic of Zimbabwe

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