To know each other

1. Self introduction (name, affiliation, an adjective)

2. Involved in data production and analysis?3. Do you know about UN-CTS?4. Do you provide country data to UN-CTS?5. Do you provide country data to other international

organisations?6. In your office, is there a specific unit/person working

full-time on data collection, analysis and dissemination?

The UN-CTS, the global data collection on crime

Enrico BisognoTeam Leader Crime Statistics

UNODC

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

UNODC PM’s at UNODC

MFA National focal point

Police Prosecutor Courts Prisons

OASEU

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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

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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

Data analysis: new products

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?