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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.6.1 Persons held for: Acts leading to death or intending to cause death (ICCS 01)
Total number of persons held in Prisons, Penal Institutions or Correctional Institutions for “acts leading to death or intending to cause death”. “Persons held” means persons held on a specified day and should exclude non-criminal prisoners held for administrative purposes, for example, persons held pending investigation into their immigration status or foreign citizens without a legal right to stay. “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. 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 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 Barbuda------ 
Argentina202116,027 
Bahamas202135 
Barbados202138 
Belize2016137 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada------ 
Chile20213,682 
Colombia202136,106 
Costa Rica------ 
Dominica201970 
Dominican Republic20214,800 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador201935 
Grenada202130 
Guatemala------ 
Guyana2017174 
Haiti------ 
Honduras20192,001 
Jamaica------ 
Mexico202157,413 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama------ 
Paraguay------ 
Peru------ 
Saint Kitts and Nevis------ 
Saint Lucia2019146 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines------ 
Suriname------ 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States2020178,000 
Uruguay------ 
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).