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To know each other. Self introduction (name, affiliation, an adjective) Involved in data production and analysis? Do you know about UN-CTS? Do you provide country data to UN-CTS? Do you provide country data to other international organisations?
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To know each other • Self introduction (name, affiliation, an adjective) • Involved in data production and analysis? • Do you know about UN-CTS? • Do you provide country data to UN-CTS? • Do you provide country data to other international organisations? • In your office, is there a specific unit/person working full-time on data collection, analysis and dissemination?
Enrico Bisogno Team Leader Crime Statistics UNODC The UN-CTS, the global data collection on crime
A major undertaking • Started in 1977, following a resolution of the General Assembly (GA Res. 3021,1972) • Initially every 5 years, then every 3, 2 and now (since 2009) every year • Twelve UN-CTS waves so far
Recent developments • ECOSOC resolution 2009/25 asked UNODC to improve UN-CTS • As a result: • Annual periodicity • Electronic format (Excel) • Annual core module + rotating modules • Collection of metadata • Improved data collection system • Enhanced data processing system • Electronic dissemination of data • Improved analysis of data
The main driver • From a formal exercise of communication from countries to the United Nations to a sustainable gathering of usable data for further dissemination in user-friendly manner to facilitate global, regional and national analysis of crime trends and criminal justice systems operations
The contents • Data on crime event: • Data are collected on main conventional crimes (homicide, assault, sexual violence, rape, kidnapping, theft, vehicle theft, burglary, domestic burglary) • Police recorded data and, since 2010, victimisation surveys
The contents (cont.) • Data on criminal justice operations: • Police: persons brought into formal contact • Prosecutors: persons prosecuted • Courts: persons brought before criminal courts, persons convicted • Prisons: persons held in prisons • Data refer to, respectively, total crime, homicide and rape
The contents (cont.) • The modules • In 2010: • corruption • misuse of technology in the abuse of children • In 2011: • Homicide (typology, mechanism, victims) • foreign victims of crimes
The data collection process OAS EU UNODC PM’s at UNODC National focal point MFA Police Prosecutor Courts Prisons
Improving usability and comparability • Better metadata on collected data • From ‘Please explain’ to specific questions and drop-down menus • Improve crime definitions • In the CTS questionnaire • UNODC-UNECE Framework classification on crime
UNODC/UNECE work on crime classification • An act/event-based classification of all crimes (and not on the legal provisions), on the basis of: • target of the act/event • seriousness of the act/event • intent of the perpetrator • modus operandi of the act/event • degree of completion of the act/event
Technical support to countries • Trainings/workshops, often in collaboration with other international organizations (such as OAS) • Development of training curricula, depository of documentation, analytical publications • INEGI-UNODC Centre of Excellence on Security Statistics
Dissemination of data • UNODC Website • UN-CTS Data /http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime.html • Homicide Statistics http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/homicide.html • OAS Alertamerica, Observatorio de seguridad ciudadana de la OEA http://www.oas.org/dsp/Observatorio/database/indicators.aspx?lang=es
Thank you. enrico.bisogno@unodc.org +43 1 26060 4426
Questions • Do you think UN-CTS is useful at country level? How? • Many challenges: questionnaire, definitions, metadata, collection process, institutional framework at country level, etc. : in your opinion are we going the right direction?