International Statistics on Crime and Justice

The European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime have released a study on International Statistics on Crime and Justice.

It provides basic information on recorded crime and on resources of criminal justice systems in UN member states.

The document is divided into 8 chapters:

• Homicide
• Trends in police-recorded crime
• Drug crime
• Complex crimes (organized crime, human trafficking)
  
• Responses of the criminal justice system
• Attributes of criminal justice systems – resources, performance and punitivity
• Trends in world prison population
• Crime and criminal justice statistics challenges
  

[Source: beSpacific]