Diagnosis (END 2008) Lack of / slow information on subjects Last National Municipalities Survey 2002 (only for regional
development) Sporadic participation in Victimization Surveys Never done national censuses on government, public security
and justice 32 heterogeneous crime codes Sharp contrasts between federal, state and municipal levels Lack of statistical culture in government units Mistrust between different actors Dearth of information concerning violence against women Low level of public trust
Challenges
Public Security Information
Mexican Government
Executive
Legislative
Judicial
Traditional
BranchesBank of Mexico (Central Bank)
Federal Electoral Institute
National Human Rights Commission
National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI)
Autonomous
Entities
National System: Original Subsystems
Social and Demographic
Economic
Geographic and Environmental
Government, Public Security and Justice
New Subsystem
Systematic Approach to the production of Public Security Information
•Government
•Public Security (crime)
•Prosecution
•Justice
4 Main components
•Functions
•Resources
•Performance
Institutional Capability
•Administrative Records
•Surveys
•Censuses
•Geographic Technologies
Tools
•Center UNODC/INEGI
•Statistical Conference of the Americas
•UN Statistical Commission
International Cooperation
Technical Committees
C H A I R S
Government
Ministry of Finance
Public Security
Federal PoliceCommissioner
Prosecution
General Attorney’s
Office
Justice
Federal Judicial Council
Instruments
Projects
National Municipal Census 2009, 2011
National State Censuses 2010, 2011
National Victimization and Public Security Perception Survey (ENVIPE 2011)
Continuous Public Security Perception Survey
Administrative Records
Projects
Quality of Government National Survey 2011
Federal Government Census 2012
Crime Against Business National Survey 2012
Crime Mapping
UN Statistical Commission Report on the indicators on violence against women
Statistical Conference of the Americas (ECLAC)
Regional Center of Excellence UNODC/INEGI
National Victimization Survey (ENVIPE) 2011
78,179 households.
Target population: 18 and over.
2010, year of reference.
Fieldwork: March to April 2011.
UNODC: assistance in survey design.
Substantial improvements over previous surveys.
Use of a memory card with a general description of possible victimization situations.
Specification of different crimes.
Methodological improvements
Previous surveys ENVIPE 2011
The respondent did not receive any assistance to recall the number and type of crimes that could have experienced.
Higher certainty through the use of a memory card with a general description of possible victimization situations.
The survey only captured details of the last crime for each type.
The survey captures the details of each one of the crimes experienced, with a maximum of five for each type of crime.
The number of crimes was presented just for the State of residence of the victim.
Crimes are counted both for the State of residence and for the State in which crimes took place.
The rates of crime measures were presented as a proportion of the country total population.
The incidence rate measures are calculated with the survey’s objective population , i.e. adults aged 18 and over.
The survey design allowed only estimates by population.
The survey design allows estimates by household and population.
Prevalence
ENVIPE estimated 17,847,550 victims, 24% of the population aged 18 and over.
Previous victimization surveys estimated between 10-11 million victims for 2008-2009.
Crime incidence
The ENVIPE estimated 22,714,967 crimes related to 17,847,550 victims. This represents a rate of 1.3 crimes per victim.
Crime costs
73.5%
23.0%
3.5%
ENVIPE estimated that the total cost of crime forhouseholds is equivalent to 1.53 % of GDP
Economic
Preventive measures
Health
Perception
47% of the population considers the Navy as very effective, followed by the Army with 43%.
Center of Excellence in Statistical Information on
Government, Victimization, Crime and Justice.
UNODC-INEGI
Center of Excellence
INEGI – UNODC Cooperation Agreement (December 1, 2010)
Focus: To establish a partnership for technical cooperation between INEGI and UNODC for the development of Statistical Information on Government, Victimization, Crime and Justice.
The Center is located at INEGI Mexico City with additional facilities in Aguascalientes.
Inaugurated on May 16, 2011 by Mrs. Angela Me, UNODC, Mr. Eduardo Sojo, INEGI, and Mr. Antonio Mazzitelli, UNODC ROMEX.
Center of Excellence
Members of the Advisory Committee:
UNODC Section of Statistics and Surveys
INEGI
UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Organization of American States (OAS)
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)Center for Research and Teaching in Economics, (CIDE,Mexico)
Michael Rand, US Department of Justice
Jan Van Dijk,Tilburg’s International Victimology Institute
Chile, Interior Ministry
CISALVA Institute, Universidad del Valle Cali, Colombia
Center of Excellence
The Advisory Committee approved a two-year working program
Main Programmes:
Victimization SurveysCrime against businessCrime MappingCorruptionOrganized crimeCybercrime
Center of Excellence
An official website has been launched www.cdeunodc.inegi.org.mx
The Center of Excellence is promoting:
The First International Conference on Government, Crime, Victimization and Justice Statistics. Aguascalientes, May 2012
Research internships are permanently available (7 international and national interns have already been recruited)
Center of Excellence
SUMMARY
Key role of NSO’s as producers and coordinators of crime statistical information
Importance of systematic approach
Relevance of international co-operation and support of international organizations