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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.4.2 Persons convicted for: Acts leading to harm or intending to cause harm to the person (ICCS 02)
Total number of persons found guilty of “acts leading to harm or intending to cause harm to the person” by any legal body authorized to pronounce a conviction under national criminal law, whether or not the conviction was later upheld. Persons receiving a sentence after plea-bargaining, or in an abbreviated court procedure, should be counted as persons convicted. It should also include persons convicted of serious special law offences but exclude persons convicted of minor road traffic offences, misdemeanours and other petty offences. “Acts leading to harm or intending to cause harm to the person” are those criminal offences defined in Section 02 of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp.37-49. [Web: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf] They include: Assaults and threats (0201), Acts against liberty (0202), Slavery and exploitation (0203), Trafficking in persons (TIP) (0204), Coercion (0205), Negligence (0206), Dangerous acts (0207), Acts intended to induce fear or emotional (0208), Defamation or insult (0209), Discrimination (0210), Acts that trespass against the person (0211), Other acts leading to death or intending to cause harm to the person (0219), and subcategories of these, as listed on pp. 23-25 of the ICCS. [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 Barbuda201743 
Argentina20218,819 
Bahamas------ 
Barbados2021217 
Belize201618 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada202026,766 
Chile20219,797 
Colombia20211,168 
Costa Rica2017293 
Dominica20215 
Dominican Republic20211,286 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador201676 
Grenada2019101 
Guatemala2021407 
Guyana2021603 
Haiti------ 
Honduras2021286 
Jamaica20173,823 
Mexico20214,601 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama2019202 
Paraguay20197 
Peru20178,116 
Saint Kitts and Nevis------ 
Saint Lucia202145 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines------ 
Suriname20191,639 
Trinidad and Tobago202127 
United States------ 
Uruguay2021318 
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).