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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.3.2 Persons prosecuted for: Acts leading to harm or intending to cause harm to the person (ICCS 02)
Total number of alleged offenders against whom prosecution for “acts leading to harm or intending to cause harm to the person” commenced in the reporting year. Persons may be prosecuted by the public prosecutor or the law enforcement agency responsible for prosecution. All persons for which prosecution starts should be counted, irrespective of the case-ending decision. “Acts leading to harm or intending to cause harm to the person” are those criminal offences defined in Section 02 of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp.37-49. [Web: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf] They include: Assaults and threats (0201), Acts against liberty (0202), Slavery and exploitation (0203), Trafficking in persons (TIP) (0204), Coercion (0205), Negligence (0206), Dangerous acts (0207), Acts intended to induce fear or emotional (0208), Defamation or insult (0209), Discrimination (0210), Acts that trespass against the person (0211), Other acts leading to death or intending to cause harm to the person (0219), and subcategories of these, as also listed on pp. 23-25 of the ICCS. [Source: Data are provided by Member States through the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).]

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Antigua and Barbuda201759 
Argentina------ 
Bahamas2019287 
Barbados202114 
Belize201650 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada202062,953 
Chile202134,441 
Colombia20193,406 
Costa Rica------ 
Dominica202126 
Dominican Republic------ 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador20213,336 
Grenada2019528 
Guatemala20172,846 
Guyana2021677 
Haiti------ 
Honduras201789 
Jamaica------ 
Mexico2021583,347 
Nicaragua2021168 
Panama20211,354 
Paraguay------ 
Peru------ 
Saint Kitts and Nevis------ 
Saint Lucia2021866 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines------ 
Suriname------ 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States------ 
Uruguay2021717 
Venezuela------ 
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02. Caribbean------ 
03. Central America------ 
04. North America------ 
05. South America------ 
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