Copyright 2010, The World Bank Group. All Rights Reserved. International Statistics Part 2 Crime, Justice & Security Statistics Produced in Collaboration

Copyright 2010, The World Bank Group. All Rights Reserved.

International Statistics

Part 2

Crime, Justice & Security Statistics

Produced in Collaboration between World Bank Institute and the Development Data Group (DECDG)


UN Statistics work in South East Europe

• UNODC also runs a CARDS program to assist countries in transition in SE Europe to improve their statistics on crime and justice

• This covers countries such as Serbia, Romania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Croatia

• More details can be found on the UNODC web site at http://www.unodc.org/southeasterneurope/en/cards-phase-1.html

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Requests for crime statistics from international and other agencies

The main organisations that request data on crime and justice from time to time are:

1. United Nations Survey on Crime Trends, which is conducted every three or four years and is now on its 10th sweep

2. The Collection of Data for around 40+ countries of Europe by the team producing the European Sourcebook on Crime and Justice Statistics. This is produced every three or four years and is now on its fourth sweep.

3. The collection of victimization data through the International Crime Victimization Survey. This has been conducted four times an various intervals since 1990.

The next slides look at each of these collections one by one.

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United Nations Survey on Crime Trends

• The major goal of this survey is to collect data on the incidence of reported crime and the operations of criminal justice systems with a view to improving the analysis and dissemination of that information globally.

• A questionnaire is sent to each country in the world each time a sweep is conducted.

• This questionnaire asks for information on the different aspects of the justice system: crime, police, prosecution, courts, probation and prisons.

• Parts of the questionnaire (The Module) change for each sweep to include statistics on specific crime types.

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UN Survey of Crime trends (continued)

• Copies of the questionnaire for the 11th sweep of the survey are available in all UN languages at the UN web site http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/crime_survey_eleventh.html

• The questionnaire is in EXCEL format with 15 work sheets• The core questionnaire is contained on 11 sheets (7 for police, 1

prosecution, 1 courts, 2 prisons)• The Module is 4 worksheets (2 police, 2 courts)• Questions in the Module are rotated every three years on

Trafficking, Corruption and Sentencing.• There is a also one sheet on illicit trafficking in cultural property,

because of current interest.

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European Sourcebook on Crime and Justice Statistics

• The European Sourcebook includes data on crime and justice for 40-45 countries, including the EU and countries in transition in South and East Europe.

• It also includes a good deal of explanations about definitions and statistical procedures which clarify the statistics included in the report.

• A questionnaire is produced in English/French and sent to a national correspondent in each European countries: usually associated with the justice ministries and not the CSO.

• Details of methodology and data collected can be found on its dedicated web site: http://www.europeansourcebook.org/

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International Crime Victimization Survey (ICVS)

• The ICVS is a survey of victimization in different countries. It is less formal than many other surveys

• countries from all over the world have taken part• A questionnaire is designed that can be used by all states

participating in the survey: methodologies are also prescribed, although not all countries can keep to the recommended methodology exactly

• Countries are asked to survey a relatively small number of potential victims, perhaps 1,000+ to ask their experience of crime over the last 12 months.

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ICVS (Continued)

Details of the most recent survey, which was the fifth sweep of thesurvey, can be found at http://english.wodc.nl/onderzoeksdatabase/icvs-2005-

survey.aspx?cp=45&cs=6796

The following victimization is covered: 1. Any common crime 2. Vehicle related crimes 3. Burglary and other theft 4. Contact crimes 5. Non-conventional crimes

Information is also published on 1. Fear of crime 2. Security precautions 3. Public attitudes to law enforcement

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Estimates of extent of hate crime, 2005

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Collections of Internationally comparable statistics

A constant series of questions always being asked is how an individual country compares with others in the area of crime and justice:

1. Is homicide higher2. Is the prison population greater: 3. How many robberies were there 4. How many rapes5. What is the extent of corruptionThe next few slides summarize data that is routinely available for the

use of governments, businessmen and international organizations.

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World Prison Brief

The World Prison Brief is an initiative of an academic institution, The International Centre for Prison Studies of the University of London, UK.

• The material is found at the World Prison Brief web site: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/law/research/icps/worldbrief/

• Information is obtained on the main prison indicators from contacts, mainly in the prison service of the individual countries.

• The data are presented in a straightforward way so that they are easily readable. The typical output for an individual country can be found (for Tanzania) at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/law/research/icps/worldbrief/wpb_country.php?country=48

• The material has a wide coverage with almost every country in the world responding to the questions.

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UN Crime Trends Survey

• The collection of data for this survey was mentioned in Slides 16 and 17. Material is published in EXCEL format for each sweep of the survey on: http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/crimedata.html

• Not all countries respond to the questionnaire so the results are sometimes selective. However, for those countries that do respond data are easily available and countries that have not responded are identified.

• Occasional research reports in a more readable format are produced: eg see the Global Report on Crime and Justice at: http://www.uncjin.org/Special/GlobalReport.html

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UNODC publications

There are four specific publications series on statistics and related issues from the UNODC:

1. The series of victimization surveys that have been conducted for certain African countries.

2. Specific studies of Drugs and crime3. A comprehensive data base of data on drug seizures in

all reporting countries4. Studies of global crime issues: eg recent report on

global organised crime

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