To know each other
1. Self introduction (name, affiliation, an adjective)
2.
3.
4.
5.
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?
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 Bisogno
Team 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:
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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
Police
Prosecutor
MFA
Courts
Prisons
12th UN-CTS, some encouraging results
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Global response
rate
Response rate,
Response rate,
countries with focal countries with focal
points
points in the
Americas
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
UN-CTS response rate at global level
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
10th CTS
50%
11th CTS
40%
12th CTS
30%
20%
10%
0%
Oceania
Europe
Asia
Americas
Africa
UN-CTS response rate in the Americas
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
10th CTS
11th CTS
12th CTS
20%
10%
0%
Caribbean
Central
America
South America
Northern
America
UN-CTS data completion rate (on replies)
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
UN-CTS metadata completion rate (on replies)
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
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?