Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics

Manual for the Development of a System of Criminal Justice Statistics
Series F, No.89
Sales No. E.03.XVII.6

This revised Manual is an update of the Manual for the Development of Criminal Justice Statistics published in 1986 (Series F, No.43; Sales No. E.86.XVII.16). It sets out an updated general framework for the development of a system of criminal justice statistics. The Manual has eight chapters:

     1. Purposes and requirements of a system of criminal justice statistics

     2. Organizational models for a national system of criminal justice statistics

     3. Scope and content of a national system of criminal justice statistics

     4. Collecting criminal justice statistics

     5. Processing criminal justice statistics

     6. Analyzing, evaluating, and disseminating criminal justice statistics

     7. The role of victimization surveys and other data sources

     8. International collection of data on crime and criminal justice

A new feature of the revised Manual is the addition of an Annex that highlights some practical issues related to the design and creation of a sound data collection system. The Annex includes the following sections:

      A. Key design issues in the collection of crime statistics

      B. Examples of police sector information reporting

      C. Examples of court information reporting

      D. Examples of correctional information reporting

      E. Sample offence classification and offence scoring rule

      F. Examples of data analysis and presentation

      G. Questionnaire for the Seventh United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice
    Systems

      H. Questionnaire for the 2000 International Crime Victim Survey