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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.3.3 Persons in Formal Contact for: Injurious acts of a sexual nature (ICCS 03)
Total number of alleged offenders against whom prosecution for “injurious acts of a sexual nature” 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. “Injurious acts of a sexual nature” are those criminal offences defined in Section 03 of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp.50-53. [Web: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf.] They include: Sexual violence (0301), Sexual exploitation (0302), Other injurious acts of a sexual nature (0309), and subcategories of these, as also listed on p. 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 Barbuda201726 
Argentina------ 
Bahamas202175 
Barbados202116 
Belize2016236 
Bolivia------ 
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Canada20206,907 
Chile20214,208 
Colombia20212,777 
Costa Rica------ 
Dominica20219 
Dominican Republic------ 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador20211,829 
Grenada2019110 
Guatemala202112,738 
Guyana202128 
Haiti------ 
Honduras------ 
Jamaica------ 
Mexico202165,080 
Nicaragua2021314 
Panama202111 
Paraguay------ 
Peru------ 
Saint Kitts and Nevis20214 
Saint Lucia202183 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines------ 
Suriname------ 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States------ 
Uruguay2021422 
Venezuela------ 
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02. Caribbean------ 
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04. North America------ 
05. South America------ 
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