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Crime Stats: compare key data on Australia & Montserrat

Definitions

  • Acquitted: Total acquitted in criminal courts. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
  • Illicit drugs: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
  • Jails: Total number of adult prisons, penal or correctional institutions (excluding temporary jail lock-ups). Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
  • Sentence Length: Total average sentence length served
  • Violent crime > Murder rate: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population.
  • Violent crime > Murders: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population.
STAT Australia Montserrat HISTORY
Acquitted 1,156
Ranked 35th. 11 times more than Montserrat
105
Ranked 53th.
Illicit drugs Tasmania is one of the world's major suppliers of licit opiate products; government maintains strict controls over areas of opium poppy cultivation and output of poppy straw concentrate; major consumer of cocaine and amphetamines transshipment point for South American narcotics destined for the US and Europe
Jails 153
Ranked 21st. 153 times more than Montserrat
1
Ranked 77th.
Sentence Length 41.8
Ranked 25th. 21 times more than Montserrat
2
Ranked 45th.
Violent crime > Murder rate 229
Ranked 42nd. 229 times more than Montserrat
1
Ranked 177th.

Violent crime > Murders 229
Ranked 42nd. 229 times more than Montserrat
1
Ranked 177th.

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); CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; 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); United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Source tables

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