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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.1.6 Acts involving controlled psychoactive substances or other drugs, total number of offences (ICCS 06)
“Acts involving controlled psychoactive substances or other drugs” are the criminal offences defined as such in Section 06 of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp.63-67. [Web: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf]
Those include: Unlawful acts involving controlled drugs or precursors (0601), which includes unlawful possession, purchase, use, cultivation or production of controlled drugs for personal consumption (06011), and unlawful trafficking, cultivation or production of controlled drugs or precursors not for personal consumption (06012); Unlawful acts involving alcohol, tobacco or other controlled substances (0602); Other acts involving controlled drugs or other psychoactive substances (0609), and subcategories of these, as also listed on pp. 26-27 of the ICCS.
Controlled drugs are narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances scheduled as such under the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, as amended, and the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (ICCS, p.63, footnote 98)

[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 Barbuda------ 
Argentina202166,040 
Bahamas20211,299 
Barbados20231,003 
Belize------ 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada202345,530 
Chile20215,920 
Colombia202358,678 
Costa Rica20233,605 
Dominica202137 
Dominican Republic------ 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador20212,969 
Grenada2023275 
Guatemala20231,524 
Guyana2023309 
Haiti------ 
Honduras20233,952 
Jamaica------ 
Mexico202391,239 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama201942 
Paraguay------ 
Peru------ 
Saint Kitts and Nevis202321 
Saint Lucia2023296 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2019254 
Suriname------ 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States------ 
Uruguay------ 
Venezuela------ 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas------ 
02. Caribbean------ 
03. Central America------ 
04. North America2020358,599 
05. South America------ 
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