Crime in Chile

{{Further|List of countries by intentional homicide rate}}

In 2012, Chile had a murder rate of 3.1 per 100,000 population. There were a total of 550 murders in Chile in 2012.{{Cite web|title=Global study on homicide|url=https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/global-study-on-homicide.html|access-date=2021-11-22|website=United Nations : Office on Drugs and Crime|language=en}}

In 2017, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime informed a rate of 4.3 intentional homicide rate per 100,000 population.{{Cite web|title=Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people) - Chile {{pipe}} Data|url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5?locations{{=}}CL|access-date=2021-11-22|website=data.worldbank.org}}

{{See|Corruption in Chile}}

As of 2006, there were isolated reports of government corruption in Chile. Transparency International's annual Corruption Index recorded that the Chilean public perceived the country as relatively free of corruption.{{Cite web|last=Department Of State. The Office of Electronic Information|first=Bureau of Public Affairs|date=2007-03-06|title=Chile|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78884.htm|access-date=2021-11-22|website=2001-2009.state.gov|language=en}}

{{See|Domestic violence in Chile}}

Violence against women was prevalent across all classes of Chilean society until 1994.Culliton, K. M. (1994, January). Legal remedies for domestic violence in Chile & the US--Cultural relativism, myths & realities. Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law . As of the early 1990s, it was reported that domestic violence affects about fifty percent of the women in Chile. The Intrafamily Violence Law passed in 1994 was the first political measure to address violence in the home, but because the law would not pass without being accepted by both sides, the law was weak in the way it addressed victim protection and punishment for abusers.Haas, Liesl (2010). Feminist Policymaking in Chile. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press. The law was later reformed in 2005.{{cite web | url=http://www.cepal.org/oig/doc/Chi200520066ModificaLeyVIF1994.pdf | title=Observatorio de Igualdad de Género | access-date=2019-10-27 | archive-date=2016-03-04 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030256/http://www.cepal.org/oig/doc/Chi200520066ModificaLeyVIF1994.pdf | url-status=dead }} In 2019, amid the ongoing Catholic sex abuse crisis in Chile, non-retroactive legislation was passed removing the statute of limitations for trying people for committing sex abuse against children in Chile.{{Cite news|date=2019-07-11|title=Chile removes statute of limitations on child sex abuse amid Church crisis|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-abuse-idUSKCN1U62NO|access-date=2021-11-22}}{{cite web|last=Schlumpf |first=Heidi |url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/speaker-abuse-survivors-cant-wait-bishops-learn-crisis |title=Speaker: Abuse survivors can't wait for bishops to learn from crisis {{pipe}} National Catholic Reporter |publisher=Ncronline.org |date= |accessdate=2021-11-22}}

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{{further|Banditry in Chile|Pedro Ñancúpel}}

During the 19th and early 20th century banditry was widespread in Araucanía and Central Chile.

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