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Oceania > Papua New Guinea > Crime

PAPUA NEW GUINEAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acquitted 727 [33rd of 30]
Adults prosecuted 1,041 [32nd of 28]
    Adults prosecuted (per capita) 0.187737 per 1,000 people [32nd of 33]
Assaults 1,351 [46th of 49]
    Assaults (per capita) 0.243643 per 1,000 people [48th of 57]
Burglaries 2,618 [43rd of 38]
    Burglaries (per capita) 0.472137 per 1,000 people [45th of 54]
Car thefts 763 [47th of 46]
    Car thefts (per capita) 0.137601 per 1,000 people [43rd of 55]
Convicted 885 [55th of 34]
    Convicted (per capita) 0.159603 per 1,000 people [56th of 56]
Frauds 417 [53rd of 48]
    Frauds (per capita) 0.0752029 per 1,000 people [53rd of 61]
Illicit drugs
major consumer of cannabis
Jails 9,474 [4th of 80]
    Jails (per capita) 1.70857 per 1,000 people [3rd of 62]
Judges and Magistrates 15 [44th of 35]
    Judges and Magistrates (per capita) 0.00270514 per 1,000 people [45th of 45]
Murders 465 [27th of 49]
    Murders (per capita) 0.0838593 per 1,000 people [12th of 62]
Police 5,462 [43rd of 47]
    Police (per capita) 0.985032 per 1,000 people [46th of 48]
Prisoners 3,302 prisoners [105th of 168]
Prisoners > Female 4.2% [62nd of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners 0% [85th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita 66 per 100,000 people [117th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 35.2% [62nd of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 87.4% [107th of 128]
Rapes 1,295 [23rd of 50]
    Rapes (per capita) 0.233544 per 1,000 people [11th of 65]
Robberies 3,394 [36th of 47]
    Robberies (per capita) 0.612083 per 1,000 people [27th of 64]
Sentence Length 24 [20th of 21]
Total crimes 13,292 [56th of 50]
    Total crimes (per capita) 2.39711 per 1,000 people [57th of 60]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Papua New Guinea is a country of destination for women and children from Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and China trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation; internal trafficking of women and children for the purposes of sexual exploitation and involuntary domestic servitude occurs as well
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 3 - Papua New Guinea does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so; the current legal framework does not contain elements of crimes that characterize trafficking; the government lacks victim protection services or a systematic procedure to identify victims of trafficking; the government did not prosecute anyone in 2007 for trafficking; Papua New Guinea has not ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol
United States extradition treaties > Citation 47 Stat. 2122.
United States extradition treaties > Date signed December 22, 1931
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force August 30, 1935
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 5.5 [81st 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); 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); 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); International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; 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: Papua New Guinea, Independent State of Papua New Guinea, new guinea, papua n.g.

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