FACTOID # 8: Russia has almost twice as many judges and magistrates as the United States. Meanwhile, the United States has 8 times as much crime.
 
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Asia > Russia > Crime

RUSSIAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Car thefts 26,106 [19th of 46]
Convicted 1,183,630 [3rd of 34]
Definition: Crime > Convicted
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)
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 15.37 % Time series [18th of 39]
Definition: Crime > Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint
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)
Illicit drugs
limited cultivation of illicit cannabis and opium poppy and producer of methamphetamine, mostly for domestic consumption; government has active illicit crop eradication program; used as transshipment point for Asian opiates, cannabis, and Latin American cocaine bound for growing domestic markets, to a lesser extent Western and Central Europe, and occasionally to the US; major source of heroin precursor chemicals; corruption and organized crime are key concerns; major consumer of opiates
Definition: Crime > Illicit drugs
Source: World Development Indicators database
Jails 739 [7th of 80]
Definition: Crime > Jails
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Manslaughters 1,674 [7th 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 28,904 [2nd 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 7,885 [4th 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)
Murders committed by youths per capita 18 [7th of 57]
Definition: Crime > Murders committed by youths per capita
Source: World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002
Prisoners 846,967 prisoners [3rd of 168]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners
Source: World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002
Prisoners > Female 5.8% [31st 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 1.7% [59th of 86]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Foreign prisoners
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Prisoners > Per capita 584 per 100,000 people [2nd of 164]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Per capita
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Rapes 6,978 [10th of 50]
Definition: Crime > Rapes
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Robberies 132,393 [5th 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)
Software piracy rate 73% [38th 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 2,952,370 [6th of 50]
Definition: Crime > Total crimes
Source: Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Russia is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for various purposes; it remains a significant source of women trafficked to over 50 countries for commercial sexual exploitation; Russia is also a transit and destination country for men and women trafficked from Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and North Korea to Central and Western Europe and the Middle East for purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation; internal trafficking remains a problem in Russia with women trafficked from rural areas to urban centers for commercial sexual exploitation, and men trafficked internally and from Central Asia for forced labor in the construction and agricultural industries; debt bondage is common among trafficking victims, and child sex tourism remains a concern
Definition: Crime > Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
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)
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - Russia is on the Tier 2 Watch List for a fifth consecutive year for its failure to show evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking over the previous year, particularly in providing assistance to victims of trafficking; comprehensive trafficking victim assistance legislation, which would address key deficiencies, has been pending before the Duma since 2003 and was neither passed nor enacted in 2007
Definition: Crime > Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 2 [107th of 143]
Definition: Crime > Unpaid diplomatic parking fines
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008

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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); 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 Development Indicators database; 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); 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: Russia, Russian Federation, Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, Rossiya

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