Transcript Measurement of crime at international level

Measurement of crime at international
level
Side Event UNSC New York February 2012
Angela Me
Chief Statistics and Surveys Section
UNODC
Putting together data from different
countries:
To identify geographical areas where crime is a threat to
citizen security, development, stability
To establish a platform where countries can compare their
crime levels and trends
Homicide rate by country (2010)
Beyond the collection/dissemination
of data to describe the
Tans-national nature of crime
Challenge in measuring crime
Crime reported to
authorities and recorded by
authorities
Challenge in measuring crime
Crime reported by citizens
through victimization
surveys
Administrative statistics + victimization surveys
What forms of crime are measured?
Trends in conventional types of crime
Drug-related crime - 19
countries
Index: 1995=100
250
Robbery - 25 countries
200
Burglary - 17 countries
150
100
Rape - 22 countries
50
Motor Vehicle Theft - 22
countries
0
95
9
1
97
9
1
99
9
1
01
0
2
03
0
2
05
0
2
07
0
2
09
0
2
Homicide - 40 countries
Are these the forms of crime that matter?
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Corruption
Economic/financial crime
Cybercrime
Money laundering
Organized crime
– Human trafficking
Develop methodology to
measure the ‘difficult to
measure’ crime
Develop methodology to measure the ‘difficult to
measure’ crime
• Updating existing recording systems to better
understand the typology and dynamics
Develop methodology to measure the ‘difficult to
measure’ crime
• Updating existing recording systems to better
understand the typology and dynamics
• Design new data collection tools
• Target different actors
– Business
– Private sector
Putting together multiple systems: different
criminal justice components and states/federal
25
Rates per 100,000 population
35 Homicide rate
20
30
25
15
10
5
Persons brought into formal
contact for homicide
25
20
15
15
10
10
5
5
0
0
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Source: UNODC CTS
30
convicted for
20 Persons
homicide
0
8 countries with high
homicide rates (>8.0)
35
1
12 countries with medium
homicide rates (2.0-7.9)
18 countries with low
Homicide
rate
homicide
rates
(0-1.9)
Persons brought into formal contact
for homicide
Persons convicted for homicide
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Homicide rate
Persons brought into formal contact for homicide
Persons convicted for homicide
Need for classifications and national coordination
mechanisms: the role of NSO
Need to ‘engender’ crime statistics
Violence against women
Crime reported to
authorities and recorded by
authorities
Violence against women surveys
Center of
excellence on
crime statistics
Training
Methodology
Victimization
surveys
Framework
for measuring
organized
crime
Corruption
surveys
International
Statistical
Classification of
Crime
Collection /
dissemination of
international data
series: ex.
homicide
statistics
First International Conference
on Statistics on governance,
public security, victimization
and justice
Aguascalientes 22-25 May
2012
Better data, deeper analysis,
improved policies, less crime
Thank you for
your attention.