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

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 2010. Report available to the working group.

The 11th UN Crime Trends Survey

Major changes since the 10th CTS Core and modular construction with reduced core questions Excel format with the questionnaire distributed in electronic form (by email) only Data reported for previous years (2003-2006) 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

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

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 2005 - 2006 2007 11 2007 – 2008* 2009 * The 11th CTS also requested previous data since 2003

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

Quantity / quality of responses received

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

Responses by country, Europe

Manual on victimization surveys

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

UNECE-UNODC Task Force on crime classification: - work to be completed by the end of 2010 - no budget for meetings

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

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

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