1. UN activities on crime and criminal justice statistics
Luxembourg, 18 February 2010

2. Ecosoc resolution 2009/25
“Improving the collection, reporting and analysis of data to enhance knowledge on trends in specific areas of crime”
Open-ended intergovernmental expert working group to prepare recommendations on the improvement of data collection tools, collation, analysis and reporting processes, in support of the work of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in this area
Meeting held in Buenos Aires from 8-10 February Report available to the working group.

3. The 11th UN Crime Trends Survey

4. Major changes since the 10th CTS
Core and modular construction with reduced core questions
Excel format with the questionnaire distributed in electronic form (by ) only
Data reported for previous years ( ) re-supplied to Member States with request for missing or corrected values
Revised metadata including both ‘tick boxes’ and free-text comments boxes
Format prepared with a view to annual data collection

5. Structure of the 2009 questionnaire (11th CTS)
Police personnel, persons brought into formal
contact with the police and recorded crime
(7 Excel worksheets)
Prosecution persons prosecuted
(1 Excel worksheet)
Courts persons brought before the courts
Prisons capacity, personnel and persons
detained
(2 Excel worksheets)
Module A Trafficking in persons
(Police and courts, 2 Excel worksheets)
Module B Trafficking in cultural property

6. The United Nations Crime Trends Surveys Survey Period covered
Year sent 1
1970 – 1975
1978 2
1975 – 1980
1983 3
1980 – 1986
1988 4
1986 – 1990
1992 5
1990 – 1994
1996 6
1995 – 1997
1999 7
1998 – 2000
2001 8
2001 – 2002
2003 9
2003 – 2004
2005 10
2007 11
2007 – 2008*
2009
* The 11th CTS also requested previous data since 2003

7. Number of Member States responding to the United Nations Crime Trends Survey

8. Quantity / quality of responses received

9. Responses received by region (% of countries returning the questionnaire)

10. Responses by country, Europe

11. Manual on victimization surveys

12. UNODC-UNECE Manual on victimization surveys
Posted online (English, French, Spanish)
English ready to print (will be ready end of March)
Translation into Russian ongoing

14. UNECE-UNODC Task Force on crime classification: - work to be completed by the end of no budget for meetings

15. Terms of Reference Objectives Outputs
(a) Developing a set of principles on international crime classification systems for statistical use, in particular to improve consistency and international comparability of crime statistics;
(b) Undertaking a case study of defining and classifying selected offences;
Collaborating with the European Commission (DG-JLS and Eurostat) on the development of an EU level classification
Outputs
(a) A set of principles on international crime classification systems for statistical use; and
(b) A case study of selected offences

16. Participation (confirmed so far)
Australia
Canada
Italy
Netherlands
Spain UK
UNECE
UNODC
HEUNI
Eurostat
DGJLS

17. Thank you