PART I. THE CHALLENGE OF MEASURING CRIME INTERNATIONALLY
Chapter 1. The need of better crime diagnostics
The uses of international crime statistics
International crime statistics: the sorry state of the art
Crime as a social construct
International crime statistics as controversial knowledge
Twenty years of thwarted efforts
ICVS: bringing the bad news
Summary points/in conclusion
Chapter 2. Mismeasuring Crime
International crime figures available
Recording practices of the police
The breakthrough of crime victimization surveys
Victim satisfaction and trust levels
The more recorded crime, the less crime ?
Police recorded crime and victimization rates compared
Other uses of police recorded crime statistics
Police figures as trend indicators
A moratorium on police figures?
The political context of crime surveying
Summary points/in conclusion
PART II. COMMON CRIMES ACROSS THE WORLD
Chapter 3. The burden of property crime
Five year victimization rates
Alternative measures of the crime burden
Victimization by property crime
The heavy crime burden of the business sector
Summary points/ in conclusion
Chapter 4. Patterns of violent crime
Hate crimes in Western Europe
Violence against women revisited
Towards further standardization
Child abuse and the cycle of violence
Summary points/ in conclusion
Chapter 5. Determinants of common crimes
Regional patterns and future trends of urbanization
Future demographic trends
Mass transportation and crime
Patterns of vehicle theft at second sight
More affluence-less crime?
Development and crime revisited
Criminal victimization and gender inequality
Alcohol abuse and violence
Trends in alcohol consumption
Firearms and violent crime
Guns and violence in developing countries
Summary points/in conclusion
Chapter 6. Global crime trends
Global trends in common crimes
Trends in police recorded crimes
Explaining the drop in crime
Responsive securitization and the drop in crime
The growing North-South security divide
Latin America: the price of democracy
Summary points/in conclusion (part II)
PART III. EMERGING GLOBAL CRIME THREATS
Chapter 7. Assessing organized crime
The changing nature of organized crime
The alternative of victimization surveys among the business community
Towards an organized crime perception index
Other “markers” of organized crime presence
The organized crime-corruption complex
Other “markers” of organized crime: money-laundering and the black economy
Composite organized crime index
Trends in organized crime
Participation of national organized crime groups in criminal markets
The intercorrelates of crime
Tentative transnational responses
The US report on trafficking in persons
Summary points/in conclusion
Chapter 8. Other global security threats: corruption, terrorism and cyber crime
Corruption indicators : perceptions and experiences
Assessing the merits of objective and subjective indicator
Corruption victimizations in the corporate world
Patterns and trends in terrorist crimes
The incidence of terrorism
Terrorism and organized crime
Cyber crime : trends in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) crimes
Computer-facilitated crime
Computers, organized crime and terrorism
Summary point/in conclusion: redrawing the global crime map
PART IV. INTERNATIONAL TRENDS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Chapter 9. Law enforcement, crime prevention and victim assistance
Trends in criminal justice resources
Allocation of resources to law enforcement and criminal justice
Human resources for police and private security
The private security industry
Trends in private policing
Homicide conviction rates as performance measure
Towards a composite index for police performance
Resources, performance and integrity
Victim empowerment and support
Victim reception by the police
Trends in victim satisfaction
Implementing the UN Victims Declaration
International best practices in crime prevention
Guidelines for the prevention of crime
Evidence-based approaches
Planning and implementation
Summary points/in conclusion
Chapter 10. Courts and sentencing
Gender balance in the courts
Perceived independence and integrity of the judiciary
Towards an international code of conduct for judges
Public attitudes towards sentencing
Chapter 11. Corrections: a global perspective
Trends in prisoners rates
National prison populations
Expanding use of imprisonement
Interpreting prisoners rates
Costs and limits of imprisonment
The search for alternatives
Benchmarking prisoners rates
Summary points/in conclusion
PART V. INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON CRIME AND JUSTICE
Chapter 12. Security, rule of law and sustainable development
Legal institutions and the level of non-conventional crime
Rule of law and terrorism
Trafficking in persons and police performance.
Good governance and development
Good governance, development and the rule of crime
Organized crime as Troian horse
Vicious crimino-economic circles
Summary points/in conclusion
Chapter 13. Crime and justice: the need of global reform
Country profiles at a glance
Costs of crime: the global crime bill
Lawfulness and human development
The North- South ‘security divide’
Security and justice reform first
The UN Millenium Development Goals
Appendix A: Datasources and data
International Crime Victim Surveys (ICVS)
Technical note on ICVS data presentation
The International Crime Business Survey (ICBS)
The International Violence Against Women Survey (IVAWS)
The United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems
Some Other Techincal Matters
Method for construction of composite indexes
Method for constructing scatter plots
Method for constructing bar charts
Appendix B Data tables
Index
References
Appendix B: Data tables
Index
References
