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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.3.6 Persons prosecuted for: Acts involving controlled psychoactive substances or other drugs (ICCS 06)
Total number of alleged offenders against whom prosecution for “acts involving controlled psychoactive substances or other drugs” commenced in the reporting year. Persons may be prosecuted by the public prosecutor or the law enforcement agency responsible for prosecution. All persons for which prosecution starts should be counted, irrespective of the case-ending decision. Those criminal offences are defined in Section 06 of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp.63-67. They 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------ 
Argentina------ 
Bahamas20211,165 
Barbados202117 
Belize20162,014 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada202011,739 
Chile202117,095 
Colombia202118,289 
Costa Rica------ 
Dominica202137 
Dominican Republic------ 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador20213,119 
Grenada20190 
Guatemala20212,697 
Guyana2021340 
Haiti------ 
Honduras2017351 
Jamaica------ 
Mexico2021111,231 
Nicaragua2021480 
Panama20214,546 
Paraguay------ 
Peru------ 
Saint Kitts and Nevis20219 
Saint Lucia2021202 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines------ 
Suriname------ 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States------ 
Uruguay20211,597 
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).