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Other > Mauritius > Crime

MAURITIAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Assaults 10,784 [31st of 49]
Burglaries 1,584 [47th of 38]
Definition: Crime > Burglaries
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)
Death penalty > Abolition date 1,995 [20th of 64]
Definition: Crime > Death penalty > Abolition date
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)
Death penalty > Last executed 1,987 [11th of 55]
Definition: Crime > Death penalty > Last executed
Source: Last updated: 01/04/03
Illicit drugs
consumer and transshipment point for heroin from South Asia; small amounts of cannabis produced and consumed locally; significant offshore financial industry creates potential for money laundering, but corruption levels are relatively low and the government appears generally to be committed to regulating its banking industry
Definition: Crime > Illicit drugs
Source: Last updated: 01/04/03
Jails 9 [50th of 80]
Definition: Crime > Jails
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Manslaughters 2 [44th of 42]
Definition: Crime > Manslaughters
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)
Murders 26 [59th of 49]
Definition: Crime > Murders
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)
Murders committed by youths 4 [69th of 73]
Definition: Crime > Murders committed by youths
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)
Police 8,967 [39th of 47]
Definition: Crime > Police
Source: World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002
Prisoners 2,565 prisoners [113rd of 168]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners
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)
Prisoners > Female 4.1% [67th of 134]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Female
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)
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners 3.4% [49th of 86]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Foreign prisoners
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Prisoners > Per capita 214 per 100,000 people [34th of 164]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Per capita
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Rapes 27 [63rd of 50]
Definition: Crime > Rapes
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Robberies 1,166 [50th of 47]
Definition: Crime > Robberies
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)
Sentence Length 9 [24th of 21]
Definition: Crime > Sentence Length
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)
Software piracy rate 57% [64th of 107]
Definition: Crime > Software piracy rate
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)
Total crimes 35,943 [50th of 50]
Definition: Crime > Total crimes
Source: Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 20.5 [34th of 143]
Definition: Crime > Unpaid diplomatic parking fines
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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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); 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); 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: Mauritius, Republic of Mauritius

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