PUBLIC SECURITY INFORMATION
IN MEXICO
United Nations, February 2012
Homicide Rate (per 100,000 people)
23
1990 - 2010
18
Source: INEGI
2010
2008
13
Public Security Information
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
Qualities
Legal Framework
Independence
Coordination
Mexican Government
Traditional
Branches
Executive
Autonomous
Entities
Bank of
Mexico
(Central Bank)
Legislative
Federal
Electoral
Institute
Judicial
National
Human Rights
Commission
National
Institute of
Statistics and
Geography
(INEGI)
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National System: Original Subsystems
Social and Demographic
Economic
Geographic and Environmental
New Subsystem
Government, Public Security and
Justice
Systematic Approach to the production of Public
Security Information
4 Main
components
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Institutional
Capability
• Functions
• Resources
• Performance
Tools
International
Cooperation
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Government
Public Security (crime)
Prosecution
Justice
Administrative Records
Surveys
Censuses
Geographic Technologies
• Center UNODC/INEGI
• Statistical Conference of the
Americas
• UN Statistical Commission
Instruments
Technical Committees
CHAIRS
Government
Public
Security
Prosecution
Justice
Ministry of
Finance
Federal Police
Commissioner
General
Attorney’s
Office
Federal
Judicial
Council
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 and
Public Security Perception
Survey 2011 (ENVIPE)
Basic Findings
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%
Preventive measures
Dark Figure
ENVIPE estimated 92% crimes
are either unreported or unrecorded
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 Surveys
Crime against business
Crime Mapping
Corruption
Organized crime
Cybercrime
Center of Excellence
An
official
website
has
www.cdeunodc.inegi.org.mx
been
launched
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
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