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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.4.8 Persons convicted for: Acts against public order, authority and provisions of the State (ICCS 08)
Total number of persons found guilty of “acts against public order, authority and provisions of the State” by any legal body authorized to pronounce a conviction under national criminal law, whether or not the conviction was later upheld. Persons receiving a sentence after plea-bargaining, or in an abbreviated court procedure, should be counted as persons convicted. It should also include persons convicted of serious special law offences but exclude persons convicted of minor road traffic offences, misdemeanours and other petty offences. “Acts against public order, authority and provisions of the State” are those criminal offences defined in Section 08 of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp.74-81. [Web: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf.] They include: Acts against public order behavioural standards (0801); Acts against public order sexual standards (0801), as: prostitution and pornography offences; Acts related to freedom of expression or control of expression (0803); Acts contrary to public revenue or regulatory provisions (0804); Acts related to migration (0805), as: the smuggling of migrants offences, or other unlawful acts related to migration); Acts against the justice system (0806); Acts related to democratic elections (0807); Acts contrary to labour law (0808); Other acts against public order, authority and provisions of the State (0809); and subcategories of those, as listed on pp. 28-29 of the ICCS. [Data are provided by Member States through the United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).]

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Antigua and Barbuda20171 
Argentina20235,639 
Bahamas------ 
Barbados2023100 
Belize201648 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada------ 
Chile202374 
Colombia2023207 
Costa Rica2023992 
Dominica20230 
Dominican Republic2021104 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador2016832 
Grenada20190 
Guatemala2023104 
Guyana20230 
Haiti------ 
Honduras20230 
Jamaica20230 
Mexico20231,042 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama202385 
Paraguay202335 
Peru2023319 
Saint Kitts and Nevis202111 
Saint Lucia202318 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines------ 
Suriname------ 
Trinidad and Tobago202116 
United States------ 
Uruguay20230 
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).