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    Crime in Switzerland is combated mainly by cantonal police. The Federal Office of Police investigates organised crime, money laundering and terrorism...
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    people in 2017. The International Crime Victims Survey conducted in 2004-05 reported that approximately 28.6% of all households in Switzerland owned firearms...
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    The education system in Switzerland is very diverse, because the constitution of Switzerland delegates the authority for the school system mainly to the...
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    Corruption in Switzerland describes the prevention and occurrence of corruption in Switzerland. Switzerland has a legal framework to combat corruption...
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    Banking in Switzerland dates to the early 18th century through Switzerland's merchant trade and over the centuries has grown into a complex and regulated...
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    capacity of two detainees. Crime in Switzerland Civil protection in Switzerland Military of Switzerland "Polizist/In BP". Swiss Police portal Media related...
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    Cannabis in Switzerland is illegal, though minor possession was decriminalised to a fine in 2012. Several cantons began to allow adults to cultivate and...
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    Switzerland Corruption in Switzerland Crime in Switzerland Human rights in Switzerland LGBT rights in Switzerland Freedom of religion in Switzerland Internet...
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    Crime has been recorded in the United States since its founding and has fluctuated significantly over time. Most available data underestimate crime before...
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  • offender rates. A 2023 study suggests that the increase in fear of immigrant crime in Switzerland was significantly impacted by potentially biased media...
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  • Active euthanasia is illegal in Switzerland (administration by a third-party), but supplying the means for dying is legal (assisted suicide), as long as...
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    requirements. Swiss law Swiss Civil Code Swiss Code of Obligations Crime in Switzerland Federal act (Switzerland) Inheritance law in Switzerland Zurich Andreas...
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    A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally...
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    Court includes starvation as a war crime when committed within an international armed conflict. In 2018, Switzerland proposed extending this provision...
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  • Terrorism in Switzerland has occurred periodically since the 1970s. Switzerland has experienced both domestic and international terrorism over the past...
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    During World War I and World War II, Switzerland maintained armed neutrality, and was not invaded by its neighbors, in part because of its topography, much...
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  • corresponds to the Kosovar Albanians in Switzerland) were found to have a crime rate of 31% of the young males in Swiss population, while those from Croatia...
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    Police, the general crime rate dropped in 2020, while cyber crimes, hate crimes, domestic violence and sexual abuse incidents rose. In Israel the homicide...
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  • Vienna Crime Museum, a museum in Vienna, Switzerland Zürich Crime Museum, a museum in Zurich, Switzerland Meiji University Museum, a museum in Tokyo,...
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  • proceeding in five stages over several years. In 2022, Switzerland experienced a 27% increase in telecommunications surveillance, mainly for serious crime investigations...
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    in Switzerland. Clinard mustered data (only available to a limited extent) on Swiss white-collar crime to argue that Switzerland is high in crime, when...
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    контрразведки Швейцарии" [Cooperation between the FSB and organized crime groups. Switzerland Counterintelligence Analytical Report]. Компромат.ru. Retrieved...
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    Switzerland has 9 million inhabitants, as of June 2024. Its population quadrupled over the period 1800 to 1990 (average doubling time 95 years). Population...
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  • Life imprisonment in Switzerland is the most severe penalty under Swiss penal law. It may be imposed for murder, genocide, qualified hostage-taking and...
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    Switzerland is not a member state of the European Union (EU). It is associated with the Union through a series of bilateral treaties in which Switzerland...
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  • Felony (redirect from Felony crime)
    common law felony. In other nations, such as Germany, France, Belgium, and Switzerland, more serious offenses are described as 'crimes', while 'misdemeanors'...
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  • only "serious crimes or sensitive cases", or having the examining magistrate share responsibility with the public prosecutor. Switzerland, Germany, Portugal...
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  • Taxes in Switzerland are levied by the Swiss Confederation, the cantons and the municipalities. Switzerland is a federal republic in which the sovereignty...
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  • in Cambodia and sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment. Crime in Switzerland Health in Switzerland United Nations Treaty Collection website, Chapter XVIII...
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  • legalized abortion on crime (often referred to as the Donohue–Levitt hypothesis) is a controversial hypothesis about the reduction in crime in the decades following...
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