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Description & Citation--Study No. 3686 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 3686 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03686 |
| Title: | United Nations World Crime Surveys: Fifth Survey, 1990-1994 |
| 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: FIFTH SURVEY, 1990-1994 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. United Nations Office at Vienna, Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch [producer], 1997. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2003. doi:10.3886/ICPSR03686 |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | The Fifth United Nations Survey, covering the years 1990-1994, was designed to collect data on the incidence of reported crime and the operation of criminal justice systems with a view to improving the dissemination of that information globally. To that end, the survey facilitates an overview of trends and interrelationships among various parts of the criminal justice system to promote informed decision-making in its administration, nationally and crossnationally. 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, gender and age of individuals prosecuted, types of courts, number of individuals convicted and acquitted, numbers sentenced to capital punishment and 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, capital punishment, convictions, crime, crime rates, crime reporting, crime statistics, crime trends, criminal justice system, drug related crime, embezzlement, fraud, homicide, international crime statistics, law enforcement, police, prosecution, prosecutors, rape, rape statistics, robbery, sentencing, theft, world problems |
| Geographic Coverage: | Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China (Peoples Republic), Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia (Republic), Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (North), Korea (South), Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated States), Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Reunion, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome And Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam (Socialist), Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Global |
| Time Period: | 1990 - 1994 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | January 31, 1997 |
| Data Type: | census data, survey data, event/transaction data, and aggregate data |
| Data Collection Notes: | (1) The Fifth Survey builds upon the four prior United Nations Crime Surveys. See also UNITED NATIONS WORLD CRIME SURVEYS: FIRST SURVEY, 1970-1975 AND SECOND SURVEY 1975-1980 (ICPSR 9571), UNITED NATIONS WORLD CRIME SURVEYS: FOURTH SURVEY, 1986-1990 (ICPSR 6945), and UNITED NATIONS WORLD SURVEYS OF CRIME TRENDS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS, 1970-1994: RESTRUCTURED FIVE-WAVE DATA (ICPSR 2513). (2) The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site. |
Methodology | |
| Sample: | The Fifth Survey was distributed to all member states of the United Nations. |
| Data Source: | questionnaires filled out by representatives of member states at the United Nations Office in 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: | 2003-04-25 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-18. |
| 2006-01-18 - File CB3686.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads. | |
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