Fourth United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (From Resource Material Series No. 46, P 92-115, 1995, Kunihiro Horiuchi, ed. -- See NCJ-159652)

• NCJ Number: 159657
• Author(s): S Mukherjee
• Date Published: 1995
• Length: 24 pages
• Sale Source: United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: Japan
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS. US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, International Crime Statistics Program.

Annotation

Preliminary data from the Fourth United Nations Survey address offense data for intentional homicide, assault, robbery, theft, rape, and fraud, as well as inmate population data for 1986-90 for 16 countries in the Asia and Pacific region.

Abstract

The 16 countries are Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Maldive, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, and Vanuatu. Tables and figures show how many of each of the four offenses were reported to the police in 1990 for each of the 16 countries. The rates for each offense are also shown for 1990. Graphs show the rates for each of the four offenses from 1975 to 1990. Other tables present the number of inmates in each country for each of the years 1986, 1988, and 1990. The number of inmates per 100,000 general population are also presented. In addition to presenting tabular and graphic data on offenses and inmate populations, the paper also discusses the importance of information on crime in the national context, how crime data are used in some countries, and international cooperation and information exchange. The author cautions against using the data for comparison purposes among countries because of lack of uniformity in legal systems, in statistical classifications and recording procedures, and in police methods or geographical spread. 13 tables and 5 figures