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Description & Citation--Study No. 6945 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 6945 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06945 |
| Title: | United Nations World Crime Surveys: Fourth Survey, 1986-1990 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | United Nations Office at Vienna. Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch |
| Series: | United Nations Surveys of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems Series |
| Bibliographic Citation: | United Nations Office at Vienna, Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch. UNITED NATIONS WORLD CRIME SURVEYS: FOURTH SURVEY, 1986-1990 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. United Nations Office at Vienna, Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch [producer], 1994. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1997. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06945 |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | The Fourth United Nations Survey, covering the years 1986-1990, was designed to increase knowledge regarding the incidence of reported crime and the structure of criminal justice systems, as a basis for improving the international exchange of information. The main objectives of the survey were to determine which data are generally available in national databases and to provide an instrument for strengthening cooperation among member states of the United Nations by putting the review and analysis of national crime-related data in a broader context. Variables describe combined police and prosecution expenditure by year and by country, number of police personnel by gender, total number of homicides by country and by city, number of assaults, rapes, robberies, thefts, burglaries, frauds, and embezzlements, amount of drug crime, number of people formally charged with crime, age of suspects, number and gender of prosecutors, number of individuals prosecuted and the types of crimes prosecuted for, gender and age of individuals prosecuted, types of courts, number of individuals convicted and acquitted, numbers sentenced to capital punishment and to various other punishments, number of convictions on various charges, number of individuals sentenced and in detention, number of prisoners, sentence lengths, and prison demographics. |
| Subject Term(s): | acquittals, assault, burglary, convictions (law), courts, correctional facilities, courts, crime, crime patterns, crime prevention, crime rates, crime reporting, criminal justice policy, criminal justice system, drug related crimes, embezzlement, fraud, homicide, international crime statistics, larceny, law enforcement, nations, offenders, offenses, police reports, population characteristics, prosecution, punishment, rape, robbery, sanctions, sentencing, trends, United Nations |
| Geographic Coverage: | Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Global |
| Time Period: | 1986 - 1990 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | August 1992 - June 1994 |
| Universe: | Member countries of the United Nations. |
| Data Type: | census data, survey data, event/transaction data, and aggregate data |
| Data Collection Notes: | The Fourth Survey builds upon the three prior United Nations Crime Surveys. See also UNITED NATIONS WORLD CRIME SURVEYS: FIRST SURVEY, 1970-1975 AND SECOND SURVEY, 1975-1980 (ICPSR 9571). The Third Survey is forthcoming from ICPSR. |
Methodology | |
| Sample: | The Fourth Survey was distributed to all member states of the United Nations in August 1992. As of June 1994, 98 survey responses were received (a 73 percent response rate). During the validation phase, any data points that represented a 30 percent change from the surrounding years were recorded and resubmitted to the responding countries for verification. Validation requests were sent to 91 countries between January and May 1994. As of June 1994, 39 countries responded to the validation requests. |
| Data Source: | questionnaires filled out by representatives of member states at the United Nations Office at Vienna |
Access and Availability | |
| Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest. |
| Original ICPSR Release: | 1997-09-11 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2006-03-30. |
| 2006-03-30 - File CB6945.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads. | |
| 2005-11-04 - On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions. | |
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