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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.3.1 Persons prosecuted for: Acts leading to death or intending to cause death (ICCS 01)
Total number of alleged offenders against whom prosecution for “acts leading to death or intending to cause death” 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 leading to death or intending to cause death” are those criminal offences defined in Section 01 of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp.33-36. [Web: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf] They include: Intentional homicide (0101), Attempted Intentional homicide (0102), Non-intentional homicide (0103), Assisting or instigating suicide (0104); Euthanasia (0105), Ilegal feticide (0106), Unlawful killing associated with armed conflict (0107), Other acts leading to death or intending to cause death (0109), and subcategories of these, as also listed on p. 23 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 Barbuda20172 
Argentina------ 
Bahamas2021105 
Barbados20217 
Belize20163 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada2020500 
Chile20211,846 
Colombia20218,138 
Costa Rica------ 
Dominica202110 
Dominican Republic------ 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador20212,143 
Grenada201917 
Guatemala20214,686 
Guyana202138 
Haiti------ 
Honduras------ 
Jamaica2021133 
Mexico202156,456 
Nicaragua20191,182 
Panama2021777 
Paraguay------ 
Peru------ 
Saint Kitts and Nevis202113 
Saint Lucia202134 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines------ 
Suriname------ 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States------ 
Uruguay2021301 
Venezuela------ 
Regions
 
    
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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).