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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint
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52.04 %
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[4th of 38]
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Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint
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66.91 %
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[3rd of 39]
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Definition: Crime > Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint |
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Source: World Development Indicators database |
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Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights
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39.61 %
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[10th of 39]
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Definition: Crime > Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights |
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Source: World Development Indicators database |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation > Broadcast details > Alternate title/Translation
CSI - Investigação Criminal
("CSI - Criminal Investigation") |
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Definition: Crime > CSI: Crime Scene Investigation > Broadcast details > Alternate title/Translation |
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Source: World Development Indicators database |
Illicit drugs
second-largest consumer of cocaine in the world; illicit producer of cannabis; trace amounts of coca cultivation in the Amazon region, used for domestic consumption; government has a large-scale eradication program to control cannabis; important transshipment country for Bolivian, Colombian, and Peruvian cocaine headed for Europe; also used by traffickers as a way station for narcotics air transshipments between Peru and Colombia; upsurge in drug-related violence and weapons smuggling; important market for Colombian, Bolivian, and Peruvian cocaine; illicit narcotics proceeds earned in Brazil are often laundered through the financial system; significant illicit financial activity in the Tri-Border Area |
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Definition: Crime > Illicit drugs |
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Source: Wikipedia: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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Murders committed by youths
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20,386 |
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[1st of 73]
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Definition: Crime > Murders committed by youths |
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Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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Murders committed by youths per capita
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32.5 |
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[4th of 57]
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Definition: Crime > Murders committed by youths per capita |
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Source: World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002 |
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Prisoners
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308,304 prisoners |
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[5th of 168]
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Definition: Crime > Prisoners |
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Source: World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002 |
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Prisoners > Female
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4.1% |
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[69th of 134]
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Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Female |
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Source: 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) |
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Prisoners > Foreign prisoners
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0.4% |
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[80th of 86]
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Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Foreign prisoners |
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Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief |
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Prisoners > Per capita
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169 per 100,000 people |
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[50th of 164]
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Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Per capita |
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Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief |
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Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees
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28.1% |
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[81st of 143]
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Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees |
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Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief |
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Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled
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133.8% |
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[49th of 128]
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Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled |
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Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief |
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Software piracy rate
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59% |
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[58th of 107]
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Definition: Crime > Software piracy rate |
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Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief |
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Brazil is a source and destination country for women and girls trafficked for sexual exploitation within Brazil and to destinations in South America, the Caribbean, Western Europe, Japan, the US, and the Middle East, and for men trafficked within the country for forced agricultural labor; child sex tourism is a problem within the country, particularly in the resort areas and coastal cities of Brazil's northeast; foreign victims from Bolivia, Peru, China, and Korea are trafficked to Brazil for labor exploitation in factories |
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Definition: Crime > Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation |
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Source: Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study |
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - Brazil has failed to show evidence of increasing efforts to fight trafficking, specifically for its failure to apply effective criminal penalties against traffickers who exploit forced labor |
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Definition: Crime > Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating |
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Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
United States extradition treaties > Citation
15 UST 2093; TIAS 5691; 532 UNTS 177.
15 UST 2112; TIAS 5691; 532 UNTS 198. |
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Definition: Crime > United States extradition treaties > Citation |
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Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
United States extradition treaties > Date signed
January 13, 1961
June 18, 1962 |
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Definition: Crime > United States extradition treaties > Date signed |
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Source: Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties
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United States extradition treaties > Entered into force
December 17, 1964
December 17, 1964 |
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Definition: Crime > United States extradition treaties > Entered into force |
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Source: Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties
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Unpaid diplomatic parking fines
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29.9 |
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[29th of 143]
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Definition: Crime > Unpaid diplomatic parking fines |
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Source: Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties
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