Nauru Crime Stats

Illicit drugs: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
Prisoners: Total persons incarcerated
Prisoners > Per capita: Data for 2003. Number of prisoners held per 100,000 population.
Violent crime > Murder rate: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population.
Violent crime > Murders: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population.

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STAT	AMOUNT	DATE	RANK
Illicit drugs	offshore banking recently stopped, remains on Financial Action Task Force Non-Cooperative Countries and Territories List for continued failure to address deficiencies in money-laundering control regime	2011
Prisoners	6 prisoners	2002	158th out of 168
Prisoners > Per capita	48 per 100,000 people	2003	135th out of 164
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force	August 30, 1935	1935
Violent crime > Murder rate	1	2008	181st out of 184
Violent crime > Murders	1	2008	182nd out of 185

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Source tables

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Nauru ranked last for prisoners amongst East Asia and Pacific in 2002.
Nauru ranked 23 places from the bottom for prisoners > per capita amongst Hot countries in 2003.

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