Transcript International Statistics, Part 1

Crime, Justice & Security Statistics
International Statistics
Part 1
Produced in Collaboration between World Bank Institute and
the Development Data Group (DECDG)
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Roles played by International and
other groups
There are three main roles played by groups dealing with international
Statistics on Crime and Justice covered in this Module:
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Guidelines for collecting statistics and training given in their
presentation and use
Requests for statistics on crime and justice to be sent to a central
authority
Collections of Comparative statistics in various aspects of Crime
and Justice
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Guidelines for Statistics on Crime,
Justice and Security
The two main organisations that provide guidelines on this are:
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2.
The World Bank, with its programs for Statistical development.
The UNODC with a series of publications giving statistical advice.
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World Bank – GDDS Summary
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From 2004 - 2009 the World Bank ran a program of assistance to
English-speaking countries in Africa, called the General Data
Dissemination System (GDDS), of which Crime, Justice and
Security was a part.
This involved workshops, visits by statistical and IT experts,
reports on progress and recommendations for the future.
Its aim was to improve the collection, presentation and use of
statistics on crime and justice.
A summary of the final conclusions of this exercise can be found
on the web site
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SCBEXTERNAL/Resources/R
EPORT_Justice_Security_Closing_workshop.pdf
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GDDS Overall Structure
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Four countries completed the program on Crime and Justice:
Kenya, Mauritius, Seychelles and Tanzania.
An initial workshop was held in Dar Es Salaam in 2007: a second
workshop in Mauritius in 2008 and a final workshop in Mombasa in
2009
The initial paper for this work was produced in 2007 and can be
found on the World Bank web site at
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SCBEXTERNAL/Resources/GD
DS2_Reader_Launch_Workshop_Justice_and_Security.PDF
Expert visits were made in between workshops to all four
countries.
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GDDS Outputs
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GDDS Phase II ran from 2007 to 2009 and produced a large
number of materials. These included reports on the statistical
situation in each of the countries: Kenya, Mauritius, Seychelles
and Tanzania, as well as to Namibia, which partly completed the
programme.
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There are also reports of workshops and other material of
use to other countries interested in developing their work on
Crime and justice statistics. All these materials can be found on
The World bank web site at: http://go.worldbank.org/T5GAK79YS0
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Other World Bank Statistics
Initiatives
The World Bank has an ongoing set of programs about statistical
capacity building in addition to the GDDS program, which may or
may not continue: examples are:
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3.
STATCAP - a multi-country Statistical Capacity Building Program
designed to make it easier for clients to access regular World
Bank financing for improving statistical capacity.
The Statistics for Results Facility (SRF) – this is a product of
recent global discussions on scaling up support for statistics,
A Trust Fund for Statistical Capacity Building (TFSCB)
More detailed information Bank can be found at:
http://go.worldbank.org/R2Q4052BB0
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UNODC Statistical initiatives
• UNODC is the United Nations Office on Drugs and crime in Vienna,
Austria.
• UNODC provides trend and policy analyses and publicizes and
disseminates data and information on the global drug and crime
scene.
• Analytical information about the global drug and crime problems
enables the international community to identify drug and crime
control priorities.
• It has a series of statistical initiatives, that can be seen in summary
on their web site at http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-andanalysis/index.html
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UNODC Standards and recommendations
for crime statistics
UNODC has published three manuals for improving crime and
justice statistics:
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A manual for the development of a system of criminal justice
statistics
A manual on conducting victimization surveys (together with
UNECE)
A manual for the measurement of juvenile justice indicators
(together with UNICEF)
Each of these is the result of input by expert statisticians from
many countries who have between them many years’ experience
of collecting data on crime and justice statistics. Thus they
represent the best available knowledge about how to achieve
good measure of what is going on in crime and justice area.
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UNODC manual for the development of a
system of criminal justice statistics
This can be downloaded in English ( 161 Pages) or French from
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/publication/SeriesF/SeriesF_89E.pdf
It contains sections on:
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Purposes and requirements of criminal justice statistics
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Organizational models
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Scope and content
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Data collection
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Processing statistics
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Analyzing, evaluating and disseminating statistics
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The role of victimization surveys
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International collections
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UNODC Manual for victimization surveys
The most recent version (231 pages long) can be found in English and
French at http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Crimestatistics/Manual_on_Victimization_surveys_2009_web.pdf
It contains sections on:
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Introduction to surveys
2.
Planning a victimization survey
3.
Methodological issues
4.
Counting offences and victims
5.
Questionnaire design
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Interviewing
7.
Data processing, estimation and analysis
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Ethical considerations
9.
Data dissemination and documentation
10. Evaluating completed surveys
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UNODC Manual for victimization
surveys (continued)
Other aspects covered in this manual, which are useful for developing
countries are:
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3.
Comments on surveys of business and corruption issues
(Appendix B), both issues that are of extreme concern for
developing countries wishing to enhance external investment
Lessons gained from the 2007 International study of violence
against women, an important issue for developing countries
(Appendix C)
An inventory of victimization surveys conducted up to 2005, which
lists many lessons for those intending to carry out new
victimization surveys (Appendix D) It considers best practice from
56 previous victimization surveys
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UNODC Manual for measurement of
juvenile justice indicators
The latest version (126 pages) can be found in English and French at
http://www.unodc.org/pdf/criminal_justice/06-55616_ebook.pdf
It contains sections on:
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Introduction – dealing with the needs for indicators to show
standards are being met.
2.
Indicators to be used – these are justified and specified in great
dealing, looked at sequentially, including children in pre-trial
detention, prison, and working through to independent inspections
and aftercare.
3.
Mapping the system – this gives likely sources of data
4.
Methodology – This deals with developing an information strategy
and the management structures that will be needed.
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UNODC ‘Data for Africa’ Program
• UNODC started a ‘Data for Africa’ program in 2005
following their report: Crime and Development in Africa.
This assists states to generate better on crime,
strengthen data collection, analysis and reporting at the
national, regional and international level.
• UNODC has funded and published results of 14 reports
on victim surveys in Africa from this program.
• In 2008 UNODC held a meeting in Addis Ababa to
progress statistics on crime and justice. As a result of
this a virtual group of statistical experts has been set up.
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