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The UN-Crime Trends Survey

The UN-Crime Trends Survey. Questionnaire developments in the Tenth CTS. New definitions: Drug-related crime, economic fraud New crime categories: Trafficking in persons, smuggling of migrants, participation in organized criminal groups, counterfeit currency offences New measurements:

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The UN-Crime Trends Survey

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  1. The UN-Crime Trends Survey

  2. Questionnaire developments in the Tenth CTS • New definitions: • Drug-related crime, economic fraud • New crime categories: • Trafficking in persons, smuggling of migrants, participation in organized criminal groups, counterfeit currency offences • New measurements: • Recorded crimes in the largest city • Annex developed with Eurostat: • Supplementary information on police recorded homicides and thefts of motor vehicles

  3. 10th CTS completed • Questionnaire was sent to MS in August 2007 • Data referring to years 2005-2006 • Deadline to return questionnaire was 31 January 2008 Percentage of European countries responding to CTS 10 87 countries (38 European) have responded so far

  4. Questionnaire developments in the 10th CTS New metadata: • ‘Tick box’ where CTS definition matches national crime definition • ‘Tick box’ where sub-categories included in main category (eg. drug-trafficking included in drug-related crimes) • Supplementary information on police recorded crime, including time of data collection, principal offence rule, counting of multiple offences, and offences committee by more than one person • Comments section associated with each crime type • New data collection methodologies: • For the European region, direct contacting of Experts appointed as Members of the Eurostat Working Group on Statistics on Crime and Criminal Justice.

  5. Annex • The Annex was developed jointly with Eurostat and dealt with intentional homicide and theft of motor vehicle • Most European countries replied to the Annex (only 7 did not provide any numerical information) • On average, countries were able to respond to 20% of the numeric variables, with only few countries responding to more than one third of the questions • Non-numeric responses have been entered in the database and are ready to be analysed Percentage of numeric variables in the Annex answered by European countries

  6. Data analysis and dissemination • Data are presented in two formats at www.unodc.org: • Values and rates for all 10th CTS variables reproduced as received, by country • Values and rates annotated with extended UNODC metadata for selected variables (to date – homicide) • Data reviewed for: • Consistency of responses with previous CTS waves (trend analysis) • Internal consistency of responses within Tenth CTS • Consistency of response with other known crime statistics sources • To assist users in establishing data quality and comparability across time and countries

  7. Values and rates annotated with extended metadata

  8. Recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting on Crime Statistics (Vienna, 28-30 January 2009) • The CTS questionnaire should be revised to improve response rate, produce more timely data and to minimize the reporting burden and complexity for Member States. • The group recommended to develop a reduced CTS questionnaire containing a core set of questions with annual periodicity, together with an ad-hoc thematic module which would change every year.

  9. Recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting on Crime Statistics (Vienna, 28-30 January 2009) ctd. • The core set of items should include offences and suspects recorded by law enforcement agencies for the following crimes: • intentional homicide; intentional homicide with firearm; attempted homicide; non-intentional homicide; • assault; • rape; • robbery; • theft; motor vehicle theft; burglary; • drug-related crime; drug-trafficking. • The core items should also include questions on prison facilities, data concerning persons held in prisons, prison staff, and numbers of prisoners suffering from drug addiction and illness.

  10. Recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting on Crime Statistics (Vienna, 28-30 January 2009) ctd. • For the next five years the expert group recommended that each year, one of the following thematic modules should be implemented: • corruption and counterfeiting, • environmental crime, • trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants, • crime involving armed violence, • organised crime, • kidnapping. • In addition, questions relating to the criminal justice response of prosecution and court authorities may be addressed by modules. The order of these modules should be determined by relevant political priorities at the international level. The group additionally proposed that a module on crime related to acts of terrorism should be explored.

  11. Recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting on Crime Statistics (Vienna, 28-30 January 2009) ctd. • A more effective procedure for reaching the appropriate providers of national data should be established, for example through the a network of national contact points for crime and criminal justice statistics (including contact points in national statistical offices, law enforcement, prosecution, courts and national penal administrations). For specific crime issues, including corruption and forms of organized crime, national contact points could also be established on a thematic basis. Internal coordination of crime and criminal justice data at the national level, including through the possible use of a single point of contact, should be sought.

  12. Recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting on Crime Statistics (Vienna, 28-30 January 2009) ctd. • At the regional and international level, data collection should be rationalized to increase its efficiency and to avoid duplication. International organisations and the institutes of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme Network and other regional bodies should support the process of collection and review of data through assisting in the identification of national focal points and through the analysis and checking of data.

  13. Recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting on Crime Statistics (Vienna, 28-30 January 2009) ctd. • In respect of the presentation and analysis of data, results from the UN-CTS core variables should be disseminated annually in a format conducive to data analysis, including through printed publications and interactive reports, accompanied by trend analysis and extended metadata as provided for selected variables in the Tenth UN-CTS. • Results from UN-CTS core and modules should be analysed and presented in annual publications to be disseminated widely to relevant national and international stakeholders, including the academic and scientific communities. • A more comprehensive analysis of available crime and criminal justice data should be produced by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in quinquennial reports, to be issued on the occasion of the United Nations Congresses on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.

  14. Recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting on Crime Statistics (Vienna, 28-30 January 2009) ctd. • The visibility, accessibility and useability of UN-CTS data should be improved. In addition to improving data dissemination, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime should also consider ways in which awareness concerning the availability of data could be increased, including by highlighting links with other relevant international data collections.

  15. Thank you for your attention sass.crime@unodc.org Statistics and Surveys Section Policy Analysis and Research Branch

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