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Middle East > Israel > Crime

ISRAELI CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation > Broadcast details > Alternate title/Translation
"Zirat Ha-Pesha" (Hebrew: זירת הפשע)
Crime Scene
Illicit drugs
increasingly concerned about ecstasy, cocaine, and heroin abuse; drugs arrive in country from Lebanon and, increasingly, from Jordan; money-laundering center
Definition: Crime > Illicit drugs
Murders committed by youths 13 [63rd of 73]
Definition: Crime > Murders committed by youths
Prisoners 11,027 prisoners [59th of 168]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners
Prisoners > Female 1.7% [120th of 134]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Female
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners 24.9% [23rd of 86]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Foreign prisoners
Prisoners > Per capita 174 per 100,000 people [46th of 164]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Per capita
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 15.5% [120th of 143]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 103% [88th of 128]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled
Software piracy rate 32% [92nd of 107]
Definition: Crime > Software piracy rate
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Israel is a destination country for low-skilled workers from Eastern Europe and Asia who migrate voluntarily for contract labor in the construction, agriculture, and health care industries, some of whom are subsequently subjected to conditions of involuntary servitude; many labor recruitment agencies in source countries and in Israel require workers to pay large up-front fees that often lead to debt bondage and vulnerability to forced labor; Israel is also a destination country for women trafficked from Eastern Europe for the purpose of sexual exploitation
Definition: Crime > Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - Israel is placed on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to address trafficking, namely the conditions of involuntary servitude allegedly facing thousands of foreign migrant workers
Definition: Crime > Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
United States extradition treaties > Citation
14 UST 1707.
18 UST 382.
Definition: Crime > United States extradition treaties > Citation
United States extradition treaties > Date signed December 10, 1962
Definition: Crime > United States extradition treaties > Date signed
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force
December 5, 1963
April 11, 1967
Definition: Crime > United States extradition treaties > Entered into force
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 0 [135th of 143]
Definition: Crime > Unpaid diplomatic parking fines

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SOURCES: Wikipedia: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002; 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: Israel, State of Israel, Medinat Yisra'el, Yisra'el

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