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2.1 Violent Crimes | Acts causing harm or intending to cause harm to the person
2.6.1 Acts intended to induce fear or emotional distress (0208), number of offences
Acts intended to induce fear or emotional distress refers to “Fear or emotional distress caused by a person’s behaviour or act. Emotional distress, at minimum, is mental or psychological pain”.
INCLUSIONS: Bullying; cyber-bullying; non-sexual harassment (harassment; work place harassment; bullying in the workplace or outside the workplace); mobbing in the work place; bullying in the work place; private nuisance; acts causing alarm or distress; stalking (including cyberstalking); persistently calling a person; psychological violence
EXCLUSIONS: Acts related to expressions of controlled social beliefs and norms (08032); intentional remark, action or communication (spoken or otherwise) by a person which harms another person’s reputation, respect, confidence in which a person is held, or induces hostile or disagreeable opinions or feelings (0209)

[Source of defnition: International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp.46-47. Web: https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf
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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Canada2021144,297 
Chile202110,437 
Colombia2021128,336 
Costa Rica20216,582 
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El Salvador202127 
Grenada20210 
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Guyana20210 
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Honduras202110,496 
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Panama2019910 
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Peru20214,014 
Saint Kitts and Nevis20170 
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2019129 
Suriname20211,484 
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