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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.4.10 Persons convicted for: Acts against the natural environment (ICCS 10)
Total number of persons found guilty of “acts against the natural environment” 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 the natural environment” are those criminal offences defined in Section 10 of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp.89-93. [Web: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf.] They include: Acts that cause environmental pollution or degradation (1001); Acts involving the movement or dumping of waste (1002); Trade or possession of protected or prohibited species of fauna and flora (1003); Acts that result in the depletion or degradation of natural resources (1004); Other acts against the natural environment (1009); and subcategories of those, as also listed on pp. 30-31 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 Barbuda------ 
Argentina2023245 
Bahamas------ 
Barbados20231 
Belize20160 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada2022240 
Chile202381 
Colombia2023166 
Costa Rica2023234 
Dominica20230 
Dominican Republic20212 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador20166 
Grenada20190 
Guatemala202374 
Guyana20230 
Haiti------ 
Honduras202380 
Jamaica202381 
Mexico202396 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama202382 
Paraguay202343 
Peru20231,313 
Saint Kitts and Nevis20210 
Saint Lucia20231 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines------ 
Suriname2019319 
Trinidad and Tobago20210 
United States------ 
Uruguay20230 
Venezuela------ 
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02. Caribbean------ 
03. Central America------ 
04. North America------ 
05. South America------ 
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