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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.4.10 Persons convicted for: Acts against the natural environment (ICCS 10)
Total number of persons found guilty of “acts against the natural environment” 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 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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Argentina202127 
Bahamas------ 
Barbados20213 
Belize20160 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada2020463 
Chile202147 
Colombia2021164 
Costa Rica201744 
Dominica20210 
Dominican Republic20212 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador20166 
Grenada20190 
Guatemala202131 
Guyana20210 
Haiti------ 
Honduras202112 
Jamaica20172,789 
Mexico202173 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama201917 
Paraguay20194 
Peru2021164 
Saint Kitts and Nevis20210 
Saint Lucia20210 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines------ 
Suriname2019319 
Trinidad and Tobago20210 
United States------ 
Uruguay20210 
Venezuela------ 
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