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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.6.5 Persons held for: Acts against property only (ICCS 05)
Total number of persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions for acts against property only”. “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 against property only” are those criminal offences defined in Section 05 of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp.57-62. [Web: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf] They include: Burglary (0501), Theft (0502), Intellectual property offences (0503), Property damage (0504), Other acts against property only (0509), and subcategories of these, as listed on p. 26 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------ 
Argentina20217,388 
Bahamas202160 
Barbados2021338 
Belize2016326 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada------ 
Chile20214,042 
Colombia202138,850 
Costa Rica------ 
Dominica201928 
Dominican Republic202126 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador20192 
Grenada2021192 
Guatemala------ 
Guyana20173,525 
Haiti------ 
Honduras2016312 
Jamaica------ 
Mexico202131,705 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama------ 
Paraguay------ 
Peru------ 
Saint Kitts and Nevis------ 
Saint Lucia201951 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines------ 
Suriname------ 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States2020129,500 
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).