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T1 United Nations World Surveys on Crime Trends and Criminal Justice Systems, 1970-1994: Restructured Five-Wave Data
A1 Burnham, R.W.
A2 Burnham, Helen
LA English
PP Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar
PB [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]
YR 1999
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1840060476
AB The United Nations International Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch began the Surveys of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (formerly known as the World Crime Surveys) in 1978. The goal of the data collection effort was to conduct a more focused inquiry into the incidence of crime worldwide. To date, there have been five quinquennial surveys, covering the years 1970-1975, 1975-1980, 1980-1986, 1986-1990, and 1990-1994, respectively. Starting with the 1980 data, the waves overlap by one year to allow for reliability and validity checks of the data. For this data collection, the original United Nations data were restructured into a standard contemporary file structure, with each file consisting of all data for one year. Naming conventions were standardized, and each country and each variable was given a unique identifying number. Crime variables include counts of recorded crime for homicide, assault, rape, robbery, theft, burglary, fraud, embezzlement, drug trafficking, drug possession, bribery, and corruption. There are also counts of suspects, persons prosecuted, persons convicted, and prison admissions by crime, gender, and adult or juvenile status. Other variables include the population of the country and largest city, budgets and salaries for police, courts, and prisons, and types of sanctions, including imprisonment, corporal punishment, deprivation of liberty, control of freedom, warning, fine, and community sentence. The countries participating in the survey and the variables available vary by year.
K1 United Nations
K1 acquittals
K1 Assault
K1 Burglary
K1 convictions (law)
K1 correctional facilities
K1 Courts
K1 Crime
K1 crime patterns
K1 Crime Prevention
K1 Crime rates
K1 Crime reporting
K1 Criminal Justice Policy
K1 CRIMINAL justice system
K1 drug related crimes
K1 Drug traffic
K1 embezzlement
K1 Fraud
K1 international crime statistics
K1 Larceny
K1 Law Enforcement
K1 Nations
K1 Offenders
K1 Offenses
K1 police reports
K1 population characteristics
K1 Prosecution
K1 Punishment
K1 Rape
K1 Robbery
K1 Sanctions
K1 Sentencing
K1 Trends
K1 Forschungsdaten
DO 10.3886/ICPSR02513.v1