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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.6.8 Persons held for: Acts against public order, authority and provisions of the State (ICCS 08)
Total number of persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions for “acts against public order, authority and provisions of the State”. “Persons held” means persons held on a specified day and should exclude non-criminal prisoners held for administrative purposes, for example, persons held pending investigation into their immigration status or foreign citizens without a legal right to stay. “Acts against public order, authority and provisions of the State” are those criminal offences defined in Section 08 of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp.74-81. [Web: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf] They include: Acts against public order behavioural standards (0801); Acts against public order sexual standards (0801), as: prostitution and pornography offences; Acts related to freedom of expression or control of expression (0803); Acts contrary to public revenue or regulatory provisions (0804); Acts related to migration (0805), as: the smuggling of migrants offences, or other unlawful acts related to migration); Acts against the justice system (0806); Acts related to democratic elections (0807); Acts contrary to labour law (0808); Other acts against public order, authority and provisions of the State (0809); and subcategories of those, as listed on pp. 28-29 of the ICCS. [Data are provided by Member States through the United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).]

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Antigua and Barbuda------ 
Argentina20191,502 
Bahamas20210 
Barbados202191 
Belize------ 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada------ 
Chile202174 
Colombia20212,386 
Costa Rica------ 
Dominica201917 
Dominican Republic202111 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador2016184 
Grenada20210 
Guatemala------ 
Guyana2017207 
Haiti------ 
Honduras20192,336 
Jamaica------ 
Mexico20212,786 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama------ 
Paraguay------ 
Peru------ 
Saint Kitts and Nevis------ 
Saint Lucia20199 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines------ 
Suriname------ 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States202079,900 
Uruguay------ 
Venezuela------ 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas------ 
02. Caribbean------ 
03. Central America------ 
04. North America------ 
05. South America------ 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).