Improving the Quality and Availability of Statistics on Crime and Criminal Justice for Policy Development

E/RES/2013/37View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 14c Crime prevention and criminal justice, published in 2013.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2012–2015

This is an older version — the most recent is E/RES/2015/24

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2015	E/RES/2015/24	Improving the quality and availability of statistics on crime and criminal justice for policy development	1,073	23%Compare
2013	E/RES/2013/37	Improving the quality and availability of statistics on crime and criminal justice for policy development	1,295	51%Compare
2012	E/RES/2012/18	Improving the quality and availability of statistics on crime and criminal justice for policy development	1,337	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Classification Systems Criminal Justice Criminal Statistics Data Collection Focal Points Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on a road map to improve the quality and availability of crime statistics at the national and international levels, prepared pursuant to resolution 2012/18;⁴

⁴E/CN.3/2013/11.

Welcomes the deliberations of the Statistical Commission at its forty-fourth session, held in New York from 26 February to 1 March 2013, including the consideration it gave to the report on a road map to improve the quality and availability of crime statistics at the national and international levels;

Supports the activities presented in the road map for improving crime statistics, and requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue activities to improve statistical information on crime as per the road map and to report regularly on those activities to the Statistical Commission and to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice;

Welcomes the establishment of the group of experts from both the statistical and criminal justice fields to provide support for the implementation of the road map within the framework of the Statistical Commission and the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice;

Approves the plan to finalize by 2015 an international classification of crimes for statistical purposes, which will serve as a powerful methodological tool for harmonization and for the improvement of international and regional comparability;

Invites Member States to encourage productive dialogue among national authorities responsible for the collection, processing and dissemination of statistics on crime and criminal justice, including national statistical offices, so as to enhance coordination at the national level and to ensure the use of common standards;

Invites Member States that have not yet done so to appoint a national focal point for the submission of data on crime and criminal justice to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, through the United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, in order to support the Office in ensuring that the national data disseminated are consistent over time and meet the highest standards of quality;

Acknowledges the positive contribution to the implementation of the activities established in the above-mentioned road map of the Centre of Excellence for Statistical Information on Governance, Victimization, Public Security and Justice, which was developed jointly by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico, and encourages the establishment of similar centres in other countries and regions in a concerted effort to improve crime statistics at the global level;

Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue developing technical and methodological tools to assist countries in producing and disseminating accurate and comparable statistics on crime and criminal justice, and to continue providing technical assistance, upon request, to Member States in order to enhance their capacity to collect, analyse and report data on crime and criminal justice;

Also requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue its mandated activities to regularly collect and disseminate statistics on crime and criminal justice and to provide analyses and studies on trends and patterns on the basis of information produced by Member States or, alternatively and where possible and appropriate, by extracting data from existing official publications;

Invites Member States and other donors to provide extrabudgetary resources for the purposes of the present resolution in accordance with the rules and procedures of the United Nations;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its twenty-third session on the implementation of the present resolution.

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