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Central America and the Caribbean > Dominican Republic > Crime

DOMINICAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acquitted 1,199 [27th of 30]
Convicted 3,442 [50th of 34]
    Convicted (per capita) 0.380331 per 1,000 people [54th of 56]
Death penalty > Abolition date 1,966 [57th of 64]
Illicit drugs
transshipment point for South American drugs destined for the US and Europe; has become a transshipment point for ecstasy from the Netherlands and Belgium destined for US and Canada; substantial money laundering activity; Colombian narcotics traffickers favor the Dominican Republic for illicit financial transactions; significant amphetamine consumption
Jails 32 [31st of 80]
    Jails (per capita) 0.00353591 per 1,000 people [38th of 62]
Prisoners 13,836 prisoners [55th of 168]
Prisoners > Female 3.1% [88th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners 5.2% [45th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita 157 per 100,000 people [57th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 79.8% [3rd of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 175.3% [19th of 128]
Sentence Length 48 [11th of 21]
Software piracy rate 79% [30th of 107]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
the Dominican Republic is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor; a large number of Dominican women are trafficked into prostitution and sexual exploitation in Western Europe, Australia, Central and South America, and Caribbean destinations; a significant number of women, boys, and girls are trafficked within the country for sexual exploitation and domestic servitude
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - for a second consecutive year, the Dominican Republic is on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to show evidence of increasing efforts to combat human trafficking, particularly in terms of not adequately investigating and prosecuting public officials who may be complicit with trafficking activity, and inadequate government efforts to protect trafficking victims; the government has taken measures to reduce demand for commercial sex acts with children through criminal prosecutions
United States extradition treaties > Citation
36 Stat. 2468; TS 550; 7 Bevans 200
United States extradition treaties > Date signed June 19, 1909
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force August 2, 1910
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 0.1 [121st of 143]

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); Seventh United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, covering the period 1998 - 2000 (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); Last updated: 01/04/03; 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); 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; 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: Dominican Republic, Republica Dominicana, dominican rep, dominican rep.

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