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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.2.10 Persons in Formal Contact for: Acts against the natural environment (ICCS 10)
Total of Persons brought into Formal Contact with the Police and/or the criminal justice system for the criminal offences defined as “Acts against the natural environment”, in Section 10 of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp.89-93. [Web: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf.] Those include: Acts that cause environmental pollution or degradation (1001); Acts involving the movement or dumping of waste (1002); Trade or possession of protected or prohibited species of fauna and flora (1003); Acts that result in the depletion or degradation of natural resources (1004); Other acts against the natural environment (1009); and subcategories of those, as also listed on pp. 30-31 of the ICCS. "FORMAL CONTACT" may include persons suspected, or arrested, or cautioned, for a criminal offence, at the national level. [Data on number of offences classified as “acts against the natural environment” 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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Argentina------ 
Bahamas------ 
Barbados20215 
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Chile20214,486 
Colombia20213,721 
Costa Rica20170 
Dominica20210 
Dominican Republic------ 
Ecuador2021313 
El Salvador2021146 
Grenada20216 
Guatemala2019935 
Guyana20210 
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Jamaica------ 
Mexico2021799 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama20190 
Paraguay201743 
Peru2021532 
Saint Kitts and Nevis20190 
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines------ 
Suriname------ 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States------ 
Uruguay------ 
Venezuela------ 
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* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).