1. Existing sources at international level Doc. ESDTAT/D6/CR/04
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2. UN Crime Survey Exists since 1976
Responses to questionnaire (on website)
Includes definitions of crimes
Cannot take into account variations in definitions, counting procedures etc.
8 surveys to date
Data for 8th survey (2001-2) published April 2005
9th survey (2003-4) being launched in 2005
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3. UN Crime Survey - questionnaire
I. Police
1. Police personnel, by sex, and financial resources
2. Crimes recorded in criminal (police) statistics, by type of crime including attempts to commit crimes
3. Persons brought into initial formal contact with the police and/or the criminal justice system, by type of crime, where initial formal contact might include being suspected, arrested, cautioned
4. Persons brought into formal contact with the criminal justice system, by sex and age group, where formal contact might include being suspected, arrested, cautioned
II. Prosecution
5. Prosecution personnel, by sex, and financial resources
6. Persons prosecuted, by type of crime
7. Persons prosecuted, by sex and age group
III. Courts
8. Judges, by status and sex, and financial resources, including in appeal courts
9. Persons brought before the criminal courts
10. Persons convicted in the criminal courts, by type of crime
11. Persons convicted in the criminal courts, by sex and age group
IV. Prisons/penal institutions
12. Adult prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions
13. Juvenile prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions
14. Staff of adult or juvenile prisons, penal institutions or correctional institutions, by sex, and financial resources
15. Persons incarcerated, by category of incarceration
16. Convicted prisoners, by sex and age group
17. Adult prisoners: Average length of time actually served in prison, after conviction, by offences
18. Persons on probation, by age group
19. Persons on conditional release / parole, by age group
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4. UN Crime Survey – types of crime
1. Total
2. Intended homicide - committed
3. Intended homicide - attempted
4. Intended homicide – committed with firearm
5. Non-intentional homicide
6. Assault - major
7. Assault – total assault
8. Rape
9. Robbery
10. Theft – major theft
11. Theft – total theft
12. Theft – automobile theft
13. Burglary
14. Fraud
15. Embezzlement
16. Drug-related crime
17. Bribery and/or corruption
18. Kidnapping
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5. International Crime Victimisation Survey Organised by UNICRI
United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, Turin
5 waves to date
First in 1989; 5th in progress
Data and questionnaire can be downloaded
Sample per country
Response rate 67% 4th wave
Conducted by government agencies in countries
Collection by commercial organisations (mostly CATI)
Commission support for 5th wave
In 15 old MS European Crime Survey carried out by Gallup/Europe;in 6 new locally funded
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6. European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics
Second edition 2003
Metadata
Crime definitions
Exceptions
Counting units
Changes in data collection over time
Chapters on :
1. Police Statistics
2. Prosecution Statistics
3. Conviction Statistics
4. Correctional Statistics
5. Survey data
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7. UK Home Office collection (Home Office Statistical Bulletin, Oct.2003)
Table A Crimes recorded by the police (% changes)
Table B Prison population (%changes & rates)
Table 1 Crimes recorded by police : total
Table 1.1 Crimes recorded by police : homicide
Table 1.2 Crimes recorded by police : homicide (capital city)
Table 1.3 Crimes recorded by police : violent crime
Table 1.4 Crimes recorded by police : robbery
Table 1.5 Crimes recorded by police : domestic burglary
Table 1.6 Crimes recorded by police : theft motor vehicle
Table 1.7 Crimes recorded by police : drug trafficking
Table 2 Victimisation risk
Table 3 Number of police officers
Table 4.1 Sentencing and sentence lengths : assault
Table 4.2 Sentencing and sentence lengths : robbery
Table 4.3 Sentencing and sentence lengths : theft
Table 5 Prison population
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8. Interpol www.interpol.int
Statistics area available only to authorised police users
Information collected from national police services
Annual reports (latest 2003)
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9. Eurobarometer Standard biannual surveys since 1973
Sample 1000 in each country
(D 2000, UK 1300, L 600)
Special reports can be commissioned
Flash reports (telephone interviews) on specific topics
Flash report No. 155 on Justice and Home Affairs, published March 2004
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