(chapter 2), and drug ærelated crime and drug trafficking (chapter 3) Also, complex crimes are analysed separately, such as organised crime, and trafficking in human beings (hapter 4) Such offences have played a marginal role in traditional crime statistics, and in order to improve the relevance of the data on such offences, new
crime and criminal justice have a strong link to devel-opment Corruption, in particular, has a negative effect around 437,000 people across the world were victims of intentional homicide
Comparing crime statistics from different jurisdictions is a hazardous under-taking For a start, the crime category for which any incidents are recorded relies on the legal definition of that type of crime in a particular country Should the definition differ across countries, and indeed this is often the
the consistency and international comparability of crime statistics, and improve analytical capabilities at both the national and international levels 1 The ICCS provides a framework for the systematic production and comparison of statistical data across different criminal justice institutions and jurisdictions
crime or criminal justice should be able to explain For six serious crimes in eight countries between 1981 and 1999, the following key questions are addressed: 1 How is the crime rate changing over time? 2 Is the probability of a victim reporting a crime to the police increasing or decreasing over time? 3 Is the probability of the police
CONTACT CRIME 12 Contact crime refers to those crimes in which the victims themselves are the targets of violence or property is targeted and the victims in the vicinity during the commission of the crime are subjected to threats of violence or the use of such violence • Murder
8 Crime and criminal justice statistics challenges than a quarter of all countries in the world are in Africa homicide rates over 40 per 100,000 population
crime across and within selected cities of Latin America JEL code: K420 Source: UNODC Homicide Statistics; World Bank list of economies (January 2015)
data across domestic criminal justice institutions (police, prosecutions, courts, prisons) and across increase data quality and comparability around the world