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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.6.2 Persons held for: Acts leading to harm or intending to cause harm to the person (ICCS 02)
Total number of persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions for “acts leading to harm or intending to cause harm to the person” “Persons held” means persons held on a specified day and should exclude non-criminal prisoners held for administrative purposes, for example, persons held pending investigation into their immigration status or foreign citizens without a legal right to stay. “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 Barbuda------ 
Argentina20216,960 
Bahamas202111 
Barbados2021141 
Belize2016134 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada------ 
Chile20211,856 
Colombia202120,336 
Costa Rica------ 
Dominica201948 
Dominican Republic2021453 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador201933 
Grenada2021140 
Guatemala------ 
Guyana20171,869 
Haiti------ 
Honduras20193,805 
Jamaica------ 
Mexico202156,425 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama------ 
Paraguay------ 
Peru------ 
Saint Kitts and Nevis------ 
Saint Lucia201943 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines------ 
Suriname------ 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States2020186,300 
Uruguay------ 
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).