1. Measurement of crime at international level Side Event UNSC New York February 2012 Angela Me Chief Statistics and Surveys Section UNODC

2. Putting together data from different countries : To identify geographical areas where crime is a threat to citizen security, development, stability To establish a platform where countries can compare their crime levels and trends

3. Homicide rate by country (2010)

4. Beyond the collection/dissemination of data to describe the Tans-national nature of crime

6. Challenge in measuring crime Crime reported to authorities and recorded by authorities

7. Challenge in measuring crime Crime reported by citizens through victimization surveys Administrative statistics + victimization surveys

8. What forms of crime are measured?

9. Are these the forms of crime that matter? Corruption Economic/financial crime Cybercrime Money laundering Organized crime –Human trafficking Develop methodology to measure the ‘difficult to measure’ crime

10. Updating existing recording systems to better understand the typology and dynamics

11. Develop methodology to measure the ‘difficult to measure’ crime Updating existing recording systems to better understand the typology and dynamics Design new data collection tools Target different actors –Business –Private sector

12. Putting together multiple systems: different criminal justice components and states/federal Source: UNODC CTS Need for classifications and national coordination mechanisms: the role of NSO

13. Need to ‘engender’ crime statistics

14. Violence against women Crime reported to authorities and recorded by authorities Violence against women surveys

15. Victimization surveys Center of excellence on crime statistics Training Methodology Framework for measuring organized crime International Statistical Classification of Crime Collection / dissemination of international data series: ex. homicide statistics Corruption surveys

16. First International Conference on Statistics on governance, public security, victimization and justice Aguascalientes 22-25 May 2012

17. Better data, deeper analysis, improved policies, less crime Thank you for your attention.