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This section presents the
data on crime and violence by country.
It includes governmental and non-governmental sources. You may
also find this information by following these links: Inter-American System; International
System; Academia
and Research Centers; NGOs; Governmental
Statistical Bodies.
- War on Crime
Speech by Prime Minister Lester Bird.
Includes official data and statistics on violence, ref. 2002
- Statistics
Division, Ministry of Finance and Economy
It does not include statistical data on the website. For more
information, please contact: 1-268-462-4775/0451 (phone); 1-268-562-2542 (fax);
stats@ab.gov.ag (email)
- Instituto Nacional de Estadística y
Censos. Seguridad Pública.
It includes information related to registered accidents and crimes
including the status of prison population.
- Sistema Unificado de
Registros Criminales (SURC) (Ministry of Justice, Security and Human Rights - National Office on
Criminal Policy)
The SURC seeks to optimize the administration of
data related to criminal acts through the organization of the
information received, its classification and processing.
- Ministerio de Justicia, Seguridad y
Derechos Humanos. Servicio Penitenciario Federal. Estadísticas.
Prison Population (updated weekly); feminine
prisoners; history of prison population; foreign prisoners;
management indicators; comparative tables on management (2005-2007);
budget execution.
- Ministerio de Justicia, Seguridad y Derechos Humanos - Políticas
Criminal - Sistema Nacional de Información Criminal
Statistics on Crime and Violence in Argentina for 2007
- Servicio
Penitenciario Federal
Statistics; Legislation; Treatment; Institutions; Offices;
Penitentiary Work and others.
- Ministerio de Educación Observatorio Argentino de Violencia en las Escuelas
Common initiative between the Ministry of Education,
Science and Technology of Argentina, the National University San
Martín and the United Nations Education, Science and Culture
Organization (UNESCO), based in Brazil.
- Seguridad Ciudadana
Search engine on topics related to transnational crimes and public
security, amongst others. Special reports and statistics.
Source: Fundación de Estudios Políticos del Tercer
Milenio.
- Centro de Estudios
Legales y Sociales
It is non-governmental organization
working for the promotion and protection of human rights and for the
strengthening of democracy. It includes a digital library (publications),
documents and news in the field of public security, including data
on private security.
- Normativa referida a Gendarmería, Policía Federal,
Bomberos Voluntarios, Servicio Penitenciario Federal y Prefectura
Naval, Seguridad Aeroportuaria (2008) (formato
PDF)
Laws, Decrees and other norms related to security forces, updated.
- Bahamas Department of Statistics
To ensure that the
Bahamian Government, Businesses and People are never hampered in their
activities by any inadequacies of statistics, their recent trends or
their interpretation; and in particular, to ensure that the managers of
the Bahamian economy in the Ministry of Finance, the Central Bank and
elsewhere, never lack adequate statistics. (social
and economic data mainly)
- Instituto Nacional de Estadística
Economic, Social and Demographic
S on citizen security such as: domestic violence;
citizen v penitentiary regimespan>
.
- Observatorio de Democracia y Seguridad
It facilitates the systematization and opening of press information
related to security and social conflicts. It does periodic
reports, special reports, case files and annual reports on issues
linked to security, defense and social conflicrs at the
international, regional and local levels. It also diffuses
statistical information on public security and publishes the results
of victimization surveys.
- Ministério da Saúde. Rede Interagencial de Informações para a Saúde
- RIPSA
Database, with search engine. Presents totals, rates and
historical rates on homicides, suicides and route accidents (age and
sex-disaggregated).
- Centro de Estudos em Segurança e Cidadania – UCAM/CESEC
Research
Center associated to the University Candido Mendes (Rio de Janeiro)
focused on research, investigation, workshops and events on public
security, justice and citizenship. The website offers an
important recollection of tables with statistical information on
public security in Rio de Janeiro. Contact: cesec@candidomendes.edu.br
- Instituto Latino-Americano de Nações Unidas para
a prevenção do Delito e Tratamento do Delinqüente –ILANUD - Brasil
Includes bibliographic references, victimization research and other
data.
Contact: comunica@ilanud.org.br
- Mapa da Violência nos Municípios Brasileiros 2008 (Archivo PDF
7.58Mb.)
Organização dos Estados Ibero-Americanos para A Educação, a Ciência
e Cultura-OEI.
Provides information on the evolution of rates for 5564 districts,
from 2004 to 2006, comparing the information with other periods
(2001-04 and 1997-99).
- Núcleo de Estudos de Cidadania E Conflito - UFRJ
It includes tables and graphs on criminal data, with various
historical series from the Civil Police, the Military Police, from
the Judiciary and Biostatistics.
- Sistema Nacional de Estadísticas de Segurança Pública e
Justiça Criminal
- Observatório Brasil de Igualdade de Gênero
Its principal objective is to offer data and information allowing
the monitoring and the implementation of public policies. It
is a governmental organism.
-
Viva Rio
Promotes work on the field, investigation and the design of
public policies, with the objective to promote a culture of
peace and social development. The Virtual library on public security systematizes the work on
this area, especially on arms control, violence and youth, and
drug policies, through an easy accesible database.
-
Statistics Canada
Statistical
information on the social, economic, geographic situation
and tables on public security.
- Instituto Nacional de
Estadísticas
All the types of data, including public security (justice)
for the period 1988-2006, Carabineros and Surveys on citizen
security, amongst others.
- Chile. Ministerio del Interior.
Subsecretaría del Interior. Seguridad Ciudadana
Governmental website that facilitates the search of
statistical data, reports, investigations and documents on citizen
security in Chile.
- Sistema de Información Delictual. División de
Seguridad Ciudadana (Ministerio del Interior)
- Centro de Estudios en Seguridad Ciudadana
INAP.
Universidad de Chile, Instituto Nacional de Asuntos Públicos.
Publications, Research and Links.
- Fundación Paz Ciudadana
This NGO shares institunational registries and victimization surveys.
It publishes a Directory of Criminal Statistics in the country,
through the recollection of criminal directories of Carabineros,
Chilean Police of Investigation, Gendarmería, Judiciary and the
National Instituto of Statistics.
- FLACSO Chile –
Program on Security and Citizenship (Programa de Seguridad y Ciudadanía)
This Program aims to leading national and comparative investigations in
the Latin American context, dealing with issues related to crime and
violence; to developing teaching and training processes in public
security; to advising public institutions in the design, monitoring and
systematization of policies, programs, plans and initiatives on security.
It publishes national reports on public security in 20 countries in the region.
- Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística
(DANE)
El DANE es la
entidad responsable de la planeación, levantamiento, procesamiento,
análisis y difusión de las estadísticas oficiales de Colombia.
- Encuestas de Victimización del DANE
Household surveys
led by the the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE)
in collaboration with the the National Department of Planification,
in 2003, in Bogota, Cali and Medellin. Its principal objective
is to characterize aspects related to crime.
- Red Nacional de Observatorios del Delito
This network is composed of a series of public and private entities
under the leadership of the Criminal Investigations Center of the
National Police oriented towards the monitoring, evaluation,
processing and statistical analysis of crime and towards the
development of metholodogies and investigations in this area, as a
means to share these knowledges.
- Red Nacional de Observatorios de Delito Sistema de información de la
Policía Nacional
- Observatorio de Derechos Humanos
Presents
detailed analysis for 2007, produced by the Obsevatory on Human
Rights of the Human Rights Program of the Vice-Presidency. It
analyzes the situation of the country in terms of homicides,
massacres, displacement, homicides of vulnerable sectors of society
and individual desmobilization, amongst other indicators.
- Sistema de Información del
Centro de Referencia Nacional de Violencia - Medicina Legal
The National Center of Reference on Violence (Centro de Referencia Nacional sobre Violencia) is responsible for the elaboration of information and scientific
investigations on wounds caused by external factors, based on the
forensic data. It publishes statistical data for the 1997-2008
period and presents a system of statistical and information analysis.
- Centro
de Estudio y Observatorio de Drogas y Delito
Financed by the Universidad del Rosario (Colombia), with the
objective to better understand the Colombian society and report to
Colombia and the international community on world events related to
illicit drugs and crime.
- Instituto de Medicina Legal y Ciencias
Forenses IMLyCF
- Revista Criminalidad
de la Policía Nacional de Colombia
Periodical publications, including updated research and statistical
information on crime.
- Red Nacional de Observatorios del lito
La Red Nacional de Observatorios del Delito es un conjunto de
entidades públicas y privadas reunidas bajo el liderazgo del Centro
de Investigaciones Criminológicas de la Policía Nacional.
- Feminicidio: Mujeres que mueren por violencia intrafamiliar en
Colombia
Investigation and publication led with the support of
the Federación Internacional de
Planificación de la Familia – Profamilia. It includes Surveys and
Case Studies. It also includes tables with statistical news.
Contact: info@profamilia.org.co
- Fundación Seguridad y Democracia
ONG. Busca
estudiar y hacer un seguimiento de los factores que afectan la seguridad
ciudadana, así como de las instituciones y las políticas gubernamentales
que orientan su manejo. Sitio incluye panorama estadístico y encuestas
de victimización.
- Colombia - Convivencia y Seguridad Ciudadana
It provides a wide range of articles on violence, crime, prisons and
human rights. It also publishes a diagnosis on violence in
Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador
- Instituto Nacional de Estadística y
Censos
It coordinates statistical elaboration with the objective to respond
to the needs of national information. It shares demographic
and socio-economic statistics.
- Compendio de Indicadores
Judiciales
Judiciary indicators with statistics on crime and methodology for
the development of indicators. Data on Criminal Law,
Penitenciary System and Police.
Anuarios Judiciales con estadísticas de criminalidad y metodología
para el desarrollo de indicadores. Datos sobre Juzgado Penal,
Fiscalía, Sistema carcelario y Policia.
- Programa Estado
de la Nación
Desde su creación en 1994 el Programa Estado de la Nación apoya el
estudio y discusión sobre el desarrollo humano sostenible de Costa Rica.
La preparación anual del Informe Estado de la Nación ha sido la base
para lograr ese propósito.
- Dirección General de Adaptación Social - Ministerio de Justicia de Costa
Rica
Statistics on the penitentiary system
- Oficina Nacional de Estadísticas – ONE
It gathers official statistical information for Cuba. It
elaborates statistics and analysis to respond to the necessities of the
State and the Government.
Integra la
información estadística estatal de Cuba. Elabora estadísticas y
análisis destinados a satisfacer las necesidades informativas del Estado
y del Gobierno a los efectos de conocer el comportamiento de los
procesos económicos, demográficos y sociales
- National Symposium on Crime
Report on the Government's seminar, organized in
2003, aimed to develop a national plan that supports a
multi-sectored approach to the management of crime in the country.
It includes some statistical information on public security.
- More Money, More Crime? Trends in Dominica over the last 21 Years
Article by State
University of New York (SUNY-Buffalo) professor Peter K. B. St. Jean. It
includes statistical criminal data and prison survey in Dominica.
- Central Statistics Office, Ministry of Finance
It does not include statistical data on the website. More
contact information as follows: 1 - 767 - 266 - 3401/3522 (teléfono); 1 - 767 - 449 – 9128 (fax); csoda@cwdom.dm (email).
- Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos
Socio-demographic data, social investigations
- Dirección Nacional de Policía
Judicial
Statistical Numbers on criminal indicators for 2008. These are
based on the reports by the Judiciary Police at the national level.
- Observatorio Metropolitano de Seguridad Ciudadana
This is a system of
compilation and analysis of information on violence and crime from
institutional sources and opinion polls. It supports the
definition of public policies on security and citizen coexistence on
the basis of epidemologic surveillance of violences; promotion of a
citizen culture of security; access, analysis and diffusion of
information on violence.
- Plan Seguridad
Ciudadana
This website provides governmental statistical information on crime
and violence for 2008
- US Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of
Justice Statistics
Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports
Set
of crime statistics for use in law enforcement administration,
operation, and management. In a given year, nearly 17,000 agencies
contribute data to the FBI.
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Brings together data
from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the
United States. These data are displayed in over 1,000 tables. Created by
the University of Albany.
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Injury mortality rate reports; leading causes of death reports
- 2005 National Gang Threat Assessment, National Alliance of Gang Investigators Associations, 2005)Regional trends, gangs and organized
crime, gangs and technology, gangs and terrorist organizations, prison
gangs, Hispanic gangs, female gangs, community response to gangs.
- Violence
Policy Center
ONG basada en Washington, se acerca al tema de la
violencia armada como una questión de salud pública, abogando que
las armas de fuego estén conforme a estándares de seguridad. Incluye
información estadística sobre armas en los Estados Unidos y en la
frontera con México.
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
Uniform Crime Reports
Set
of crime statistics for use in law enforcement administration,
operation, and management. In a given year, nearly 17,000 agencies
contribute data to the FBI.
- Bureau of the Census
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics
- Department of Commerce (STAT-USA)
- Office of Energy Statistics
- National Center for Health Statistics
- The National Center for Education Statistics
- United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service
- US Department
of Justice-Statistics on Violence against Women
- Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
Important link to Latin American NGOs working on justice and human
rights. WOLA organizes workshops, conferences, roundtables, on a
regular basis. It also prepares reports on the topics of public
security.
- Woodrow Wilson Center Latin American Program. Citizens Security in the
Americas: Trends and Public Policies (Spanish
only)
This
Blog shares information on journals from all countries in the region, as
well as links to official documents and reports by specialists.
For the most part, the documents are in Spanish, but there is also some
information in English and in Portuguese.
- Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence - University of Colorado, United States
Research, Reports, Articles
- Center for Criminology and Criminal Justice Research - University of Texas, Austin, United States
Institutional information, reports
- National Archive of Criminal Justice Data - University of Michigan, United States
Archives and Data on security
- San Diego
University.
Crime & Society: A comparative criminology tour of the World
Access to information on criminology by country and by region, sponsored
by the San Diego University.
- American University Minorities at Risk Project
Investigation Project led by American University that analyzes
the conflicts between community groups involved in politics. The
available materials come from more than 283 groups and target
researchers, governmental officials, journalists and students.
- Rutgers Center on
Public Security - The State University of New Jersey
Research and publications on criminal justice, crime data, surveillance,
gangs surveys and gangs-related violence.
-
Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (INE)
The INE is a governmental
institution whose research is based on the recollection of primary
data, through institutional administrative directories, as well as
through field investigations such as census or surveys.
-
Dirección General de Investigación Criminal. Unidad de Ingeniería en
Sistemas
-
Observatorio de la Violencia en Honduras
Statistics on public security. Documents on violent deaths and
non-intentional; documents on mortality and others. Projects
developed with the support of the United Nations Development Program
(UNDP)
- PNUD, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras
Institutional Directories
- Secretaría de Seguridad Pública
Integral system of assistance to victims of power abuse; Integral
strategy for the prevention of and fight against crime; private
security; statistics on the services of private security;
penitentiary statistics.
- Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e
Informática (INEGI)
Information on violence, intra-familiar violence, social violence (criminals,
child abuse, background of violence against women, mexican
classification of crime, women abuses).
- Observatorio de Violencia Social y de Género
Statistical information on the types of violence, by sexe, age,
level of education, kinship. Database and indicators on social
violence and gender. Analytical documents for the definition
of public policies recommendations. Publication of documents
and indicators.
- Sistema de Desarrollo Integral de la Familia
Case Studies / Institutional registration, prevention of commercial
child exploitation, statistics of the national services of
statistics of the social assistance.
- Observatorio Ciudadano contra la Violencia hacia las Mujeres
It includes the
list of observatories by state entities, by public policy and by
type of organization.
- Observatorio de
la Violencia de Género contra la Mujer
Forum for the elimination of all forms of violence and
discrimination against women. It creates indicators on the
following issues: femicides, intra-familiar violence, trafficking in
persons and women, sexual and reproductive health, social violence,
sexual violence.
- Instituto de
Seguridad Ciudadana (AC-Insyde)
Autonomous and pluri-disciplinary
organization that seeks to create the conditions for the development
of ideas on public security and the police, criminal justice, human
rights and the media. It focuses on police reform as well as
on the need to promote the education of journalists, media and
institutional communicators involved in the diffusion of news on
public security and criminal justice.
- Mexico - Programa
de Estudios para la Seguridad Pública y Estado de Derecho (CIDE)
Provides statistical information, in particular related to victimization
surveys and other data related to public security.
- Mexico - SOS Sistema
de Observación por la Seguridad Ciudadana
- Mexico - Seguridad Ciudadana
This organization of the civil society seeks to promote the improvement
of governance related to citizen security and criminal justice in Mexico.
It diffuses criminal statistics and other documents in these areas.
- Mexico - Instituto para la
Seguridad y la Democracia
Publications and academic documents on violence and the media, police
reform, as well as other public security topics.
- Ministerio del Interior de Perú
Statistical tables on intra-familiar violence 2006, statistical
violence on sexual violence 2006, statistical tables on trafficking
in persons 2008.
- Sistema Nacional de Seguridad Ciudadana (SINASEC)
Publications on citizen security and victimization surveys.
- Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática
(INEI)
Economic surveys, national census, poverty
statistics, demographic and socio-economic indicators.
- Consejo nacional
de Seguridad Ciudadana
Governmental body
responsible for the design, implementation and evaluation of
policies on citizen security
- Peru - Ciudad
Nuestra
- Peru - Instituto de Defensa Legal: Seguridad Ciudadana.
Organization of the civil society with important presence amongst
the population. Statistics, Programs, Materials, Legal norms,
Library, etc...Data and numbers on security. Surveys.
Investigation on victimization for 2005-2007.
- Statistics Division Ministry of Finance, Development & Planning
Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Statistics Department, Ministry of Sustainable Development.
No incluye datos estadísticos en el sitio Web. Siguen
los números para contacto: 1 - 869 - 465 – 2521 (teléfono); 1 - 869 - 466 – 7398 (fax); stats@sisterisles.kn (email).
| Saint Vincent and Grenadines |
- Central Statistical Office
The CSO is a Division of the Ministry of
Planning and Development charged with the responsibility of taking
censuses in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and collecting,
compiling, analyzing and publishing statistical information relating
to all social and economic activities.
- Observatorio de la Seguridad Ciudadana
Program linked to the Inter-American Development Bank -
Institutional Directories
- Crime in Trinidad and Tobago: the effect of alcohol use and unemployment (PDF file)
Last update: November 10, 2009
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