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3. Other Crimes
3.5.2 Theft (ICCS 0502), number of offences
Total number of offences of "Theft" at the national level.
“THEFT” is defined as “Unlawfully taking or obtaining of property with the intent to permanently withhold it from a person or organization without consent and without the use of force, threat of force or violence, coercion or deception”.
INCLUSIONS: Theft of personal property (05022) where entry was lawfully gained; theft of personal property from a person (050221) or from a vehicle (050222); other theft of personal property (050229); theft of business property (05023); theft of movable public property that is not a vehicle (05024); theft of livestock (05025); theft of services (05026); Other acts of theft NOT involving the use of force or threat of force against a person (05029): theft of mail; theft by conversion.
EXCLUSIONS: “Theft” excludes Robbery (0401); Burglary (0501); and Theft of a motorized vehicle or parts thereof (05021), which are recorded separately. It also excludes possession of stolen goods or money; receiving, handling, disposing, selling or trafficking stolen goods; using stolen parts for producing other goods; concealment of stolen goods (0704); obtaining money or other benefit or evading a liability through deceit or dishonest conduct (0701); property damage (0504); theft of intellectual property (0503); identity theft (07019)

[Sources: International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, p.58. Web: https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf
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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Countries
 
    
Antigua and Barbuda20221,000 
Argentina2022311,697 
Bahamas20221,778 
Barbados20221,126 
Belize202297 
Bolivia20203,216 
Brazil20201,344,822 
Canada2022526,532 
Chile2022118,140 
Colombia2022459,059 
Costa Rica202226,940 
Dominica2022931 
Dominican Republic20222,824 
Ecuador202219,807 
El Salvador20229,172 
Grenada20222,713 
Guatemala202240,124 
Guyana20222,945 
Haiti------ 
Honduras20222,841 
Jamaica2022802 
Mexico2022313,323 
Nicaragua201010,453 
Panama202214,538 
Paraguay202230,771 
Peru2022136,133 
Saint Kitts and Nevis2022541 
Saint Lucia20221,458 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines20221,155 
Suriname20222,989 
Trinidad and Tobago20201,619 
United States20224,980,665 
Uruguay2022115,883 
Venezuela200850,842 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas20099,088,699 
02. Caribbean200910,756 
03. Central America202099,220 
04. North America20196,036,787 
05. South America20091,974,117 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).