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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.3.10 Persons prosecuted for: Acts against the natural environment (ICCS 10)
Total number of alleged offenders against whom prosecution for “acts against the natural environment” 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. “Acts against the natural environment” are those criminal offences defined 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.] They 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. [Data 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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Antigua and Barbuda------ 
Argentina------ 
Bahamas------ 
Barbados20170 
Belize20160 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada2020588 
Chile202133 
Colombia20211,756 
Costa Rica------ 
Dominica20210 
Dominican Republic------ 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador2021220 
Grenada20190 
Guatemala20213,466 
Guyana20210 
Haiti------ 
Honduras------ 
Jamaica------ 
Mexico20211,243 
Nicaragua202123 
Panama2021109 
Paraguay------ 
Peru------ 
Saint Kitts and Nevis------ 
Saint Lucia20211 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines------ 
Suriname------ 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States------ 
Uruguay202157 
Venezuela------ 
Regions
 
    
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02. Caribbean------ 
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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).