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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 
Barbados2021962 
Belize------ 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada202161,798 
Chile20215,920 
Colombia201967,185 
Costa Rica20213,367 
Dominica202137 
Dominican Republic------ 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador20212,969 
Grenada2021298 
Guatemala20211,943 
Guyana2021445 
Haiti------ 
Honduras------ 
Jamaica------ 
Mexico2021107,444 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama201942 
Paraguay------ 
Peru------ 
Saint Kitts and Nevis202120 
Saint Lucia2020235 
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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