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

E/RES/2015/24View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 19c Crime prevention and criminal justice, published in 2015.

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3 versions · 2012–2015

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	–

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 6	Research, trend analysis and forensics	19

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Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 6	Research, trend analysis and forensics	19	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Classification Systems Criminal Justice Criminal Statistics Data Collection Technical Cooperation

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10 operative paragraphs

Acknowledges the road map to improve the quality and availability of crime statistics at the national and international levelsError: Reference source not found as a valuable conceptual and operational framework to improve statistics on crime and criminal justice, and encourages the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and all relevant partners to continue activities for its implementation, subject to availability of resources;

Welcomes the deliberations of the Statistical Commission at its forty-sixth session, held from 3 to 6 March 2015, at which the Commission endorsed the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes as an international statistical standard for the collection of data from both administrative records and statistical surveys and as an analytical tool to elicit specific information on factors driving crime, confirms the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime as the custodian of the International Classification, and endorses the implementation plan,⁴ including the creation of a technical advisory group to provide the Office with substantive advice and support in the maintenance of the International Classification;

⁴See E/CN.3/2015/7.

Recognizes the comprehensive and inclusive preparatory work conducted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, Member States and experts to develop the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes and test its feasibility;

Invites Member States to develop national plans for the gradual adoption of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes and the strengthening of national statistical systems on criminal justice in order to contribute to the effectiveness of their national legislation and policies, taking into account relevant international instruments in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice, by encouraging a 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 foster the implementation of the International Classification by all national authorities concerned;

Encourages Member States to continue their efforts to improve crime statistics at the global level, through, inter alia, the exchange of experiences and good practices and the establishment of statistical centres in cooperation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and in that context reaffirms the positive contribution of the Centre of Excellence for Statistical Information on Governance, Victimization, Public Security and Justice, established jointly by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico;

Invites the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Member States to continue to support the implementation of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes in accordance with the outlined implementation plan and subject to availability of resources, with particular reference to information campaigns, methodological support and technical assistance provided to requesting Member States;

Urges the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in coordination with the technical advisory group to be established and in consultation with Member States, and within its existing mandates, to support the maintenance of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes through, inter alia, the review and evaluation of the implementation plan, and requests the Office to continue to provide relevant information to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and to the Statistical Commission for their consideration in this regard;

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

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

Requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to report to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its twenty-sixth session on the implementation of the present resolution.

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