ASEP/JDP Data Bank
www.jdsurvey.net/jds/jdsurvey.jsp
ASEP/JDP provides statistical database and survey files regarding Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
Council
of
European Social Science Data Archives
www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/europe.html
CESSDA promotes the acquisition, archiving and distribution of electronic data for social science teaching and research in Europe. Link to data archives, libraries, and data centers around the world. Links are in all languages.
International Comparisons of Criminal Justice StatisticsIncludes statistical information collected by the Home Office on criminal justice as well as that collected by the Council of Europe. Thirty-two countries were represented in the 1999 statistics, 29 in 1998. Comparisons between England and Wales and other countries are also presented.
Social Monitor
The Social Monitor
reveiws
recent
socio-economic trends for 27 countries. A statistical annex
includes crime data. The report is available in English or
Russian.
Social
Sciences
Data Collection
3stages.org/idata/
Search or browse a listing of 850 Internet sites of numeric social science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.
United
Nations
Surveys of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems
A considerable body of
international
crime and criminal justice information has been accumulated through UN
Crime Surveys. So far, there have been eight waves; data from each wave
is available through this website. Survey data allow for multiple types
of analysis, for both research and public policy purposes. The site
also offers a comparative overview of violent- and property related
crime statistics.
More information from
the
survey is
available at www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/United-Nations-Surveys-on-Crime-Trends-and-the-Operations-of-Criminal-Justice-Systems.html
The
World
Factbook 2007, CIA
www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Published by the U.S. Central Intellience Agency, the World Factbook includes information on countries around the world, including a description of the country's government, economic development, communications, transportation, population statistics, languages, and ethnic groups.
The
World
Factbook of
Criminal Justice Systems
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/wfcj.htm
This factbook, developed under a BJS grant, provides narrative descriptions of the criminal justice systems of countries around the world. Descriptions are written to a common template so that comparisons of similar functions in different countries can be made easily. Countries included are listed in alphabetical order.
International Profile of Women's Prisons
www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/assets/documents/10003BB3womens_prisons_int_review_final_report.pdf
The Privatization of Immigrant Detention: Towards a Global View
www.globaldetentionproject.org/fileadmin/docs/GDP_PrivatizationPaper_Final5.pdf
World
Female Imprisonment List
www.unodc.org/pdf/india/womens_corner/women_prison_list_2006.pdf
World
Prison
Population List
This report by the British Home Office gives details on the number of prisoners held in some 205 independent countries and dependent territories. It shows the differences in the level of imprisonment across the work and makes possible an estimate of the work prison population total.
Fraud: The Unmanaged Risk - 8th Global Survey
www.your-call.com.au/information/documents/EY8thGlobalSurvey2003.pdf
Ernst & Young conducts a survey of organisations every second year to provide information on trends concerning the nature and incidence of fraud. This survey, the 8th in the series, is the longest running and widest ranging global survey conducted by professionals dealing with fraud on a daily basis.
Global
Anti-Money Laundering Survey
This global anti-money laundering survey looks at how banks around the world are approaching anti-money laundering policies. It also focuses on the specific issues facing banks in the various geographical regions and, where appropriate, compares the findings with the 2004 survey.
Global
Economic Crime Survey: International, Western European, and Dutch
Findings
This survey is based on
interviews with senior executives and reveals their experiences with
fraud, its causes and loses, their responses and recovery actions and
the effectiveness of fraud prevention meausres.
Global
Fraud Report
Kroll's Global Fraud Report is a publication that serves as a practical guide to preventing, detecting, investigating and recovering from fraudulent activity.
Global Integrity Annual Reports
Cross country trends and analysis from the group Global Integrity's annual reports.
Global Security Survey
Annual Global Security Survey was produced with input from Chief
Security Officers and security management teams from financial services
industry organizations around the world.
Transparency International: Global Corruption Report
"Since 2001, the Global Corruption Report (GCR) has offered an annual assessment of the state of corruption aroudn the world. Produced by Transparency International (TI), the publication brings together leading experts and practitioners to analyze current issues, identify new challenges, and explore solutions in the field of corruption. The GCR is divided into three sections: thematic focus, country reports, and research. The thematic section provides an in-depth analysis of a key issue and its corruption challenges. The 2009 GCR focuses on the private sector. Previous editions have analyzed corruption in the water sector (2008) and the judiciary (2007). The country reports section of the GCR presents a national perspective provided by corruption practitioners and experts working in the given country/territory. Through the case studies featured in these reports, the 2009 GCR traces corruption trends, reviews institutional reforms and identifies key private sector corruption issues in 46 countries.".
Bi-annual Seizure Reports by UNODC
This report contains
data on significant drug seizure cases which have been reported by
Governments to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Ecstasy
and Amphetamines Global Survey 2003
www.unodc.org/pdf/publications/report_ats_2003-09-23_1.pdf
The purpose of this Survey 2003 is
to review the size and nature of the Amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS)
threat, with the view of exploring what society can do to overcome the
problem.
Global
Status
Report on Alcohol 2004
www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/global_status_report_2004_overview.pdf#search=%22global%20status%20report%20on%20alcohol%202004%22
This report presents on overviews of
the available data on alcohol consumption and drinking patterns
worldwide.
International Harm Reduction Association's 50 Best Collection on Policing and Harm Reduction (Illicit Drugs)
www.ihra.net/Policing
"With this project, the International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) aims to identify and collect approximately 50 documents that provide the best information on the subject of policing and harm reduction for illict drugs. This will create a thorough and broad information base on this topic, with papers representative of a range of sub-topics and research and papers from around the world."
International Narcotics Control Strategy Report
The International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) is an annual report by the Department of State of Congress prepared in accorance with the Foreign Assistance Act. It describes the efforts of key countries to attack all aspects of the international drug trade. Country chapters report
upon
actions to attack the international drug trade.
Summaries and statistics for drug producing countries are profiled.
A Report on Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998 - 2007
ec.europa.eu/justice_home/doc_centre/drugs/studies/doc/report_short_10_03_09_en.pdf
This report assesses changes in the global illicit drug markets and focuses on markets and quantities, drug-related problems, policies, policy assessment, and numerous abstracts.
Report
of the
International Narcotics Control Board
The annual reports
provides information regarding (1) alternative development and
legitimate livelihoods, (2) operation of the international drug control
system, and (3) Analysis of the world situation.
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Annual Report
The UNODC Annual Reports provides an overview of the organization's
activities worldwide. It shows the range of activities undertaken in
the field and at headquarters to make the world safer from illicit
drugs and international organized crime. Available in English and Spanish.
Youth
and Drugs: A
Global Overview (PDF file)
www.unodc.org/pdf/document_1999-01-11_2.pdf
Report from the United
Nations Office
for Drug Control and Crime Prevention. Statistics on reduction of
illicit demand for drugs; the world situation with regard to drug
abuse,
with particular emphasis on youth and drug abuse.
World Drug Report - Global Illicit Drug Trends
This report is prepared
annually by the Research Section of the United Nations International
Drug Control Programme (UNDCP), which is part of the Vienna-based
United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC). A statistical
approach is used to assess the status of the world supply and demand
for illicit drugs. This report constitutes a comprehensive
published source of estimates and statistics on the global drug problem.
Amnesty International Report - The State of the World's Human Rights
Amnesty International’s (AI) approach to tackling human rights abuses is informed by both the challenges and opportunities for change in a given country or region. The strategic goals that AI identifies in a country or region determine AI’s work. As a result, AI addresses particular issues in specific countries. Its coverage of individual issues, as reflected in the content of this report, is focused rather than comprehensive.
Asian Human Rights Commission - Annual Human Rights Report on Eleven Asian Countries
The Asian Human Rights Commission is a regional non-governmental organization monitoring and lobbying human rights issues in Asia. The countries examined include: Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress. The reports cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights.
Human
Rights in the OSCE Region: Europe, Central Asia and North America,
Report 2004 (Events of 2003)
The Human Security Report: War and Peace in the 21st Century
www.humansecurityreport.info/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=63
The first Human Security Report documents a dramatic, but largely unknown, decline in the number of wars, genocides and human rights abuse over the past decade. Published by Oxford University Press, the Report argues that the single most compelling explanation for these changes is found in the unprecedented upsurge of international activism, spearheaded by the UN, which took place in the wake of the Cold War. This webpage link allows for a Google search within the report itself.
World Organisation Against Torture - Annual Reports
These annual reports outline the activities of the World Organisation Against Torture the year noted as well as offering links to other publications and reports.
Global Report on Trafficking in Persons: UNDOC Report
www.unodc.org/documents/Global_Report_on_TIP.pdf
This February 2009 report was prepared by the Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking
of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The
Report is based on data gathered from 155 countries, and includes an overview of trafficking patterns; legal steps taken in response; and country-specific information on reported cases of trafficking in persons, victims, and prosecutions.
Trafficking
in Persons: Global Patterns
www.unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/HT-globalpatterns-en.pdf
This report was prepared by the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU)
of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The
Report is the result of analysis of human trafficking data collected
for the period, 1996 to 2003, contained within UNODC's Database on
Human Trafficking Trends (the Trafficking Database)
Trafficking
Statistics Project
www.unescobkk.org/culture/trafficking/unesco.htm
UNESCO has initiated the
Trafficking
Statistics Project as a first step toward clarifying what we know, what
we think we know, and what we don't know about trafficking. This site
has links to a searchable database, factsheets, and a bibliography.
Victims of Trafficking and Violence
Protection Act of 2000: Trafficking in Persons Report
This annual reports
from the U.S. Department of State presents an overview of human
trafficking and includes country narratives on more than 150 countries.
Child Soliders - Global Report
This report examines the challenges and opportunities existing for young people between the ages of 15 and 24 in the world. It provides a regional overview summarizing the major youth development trends in the fifteen priority areas of the World programme of Action for Youth. The report explores major issues of concern to youth development, including employment, education, health, poverty and violence.
UNICEF Progress for Children: Report Cards
The Progress for Children reports discuss the progress being made towards achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Those goals are: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality and empower women; reduce child mortality; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases; ensure environmental stability; and develop a global partnership for development.
United Nations World Youth Report
This report examines the challenges and opportunities existing for young people between the ages of 15 and 24 in the world. It provides a regional overview summarizing the major youth development trends in the fifteen priority areas of the World programme of Action for Youth. The report explores major issues of concern to youth development, including employment, education, health, poverty and violence.
Cisco Annual Security Report
"In an effort to shed greater light on growing trends involving security threats around the world, Cisco® announced the release of its first annual report on the global state of security. The report spotlights the risks and challenges that businesses, government organizations and consumers increasingly face and offers suggestions on guarding against them."
Council
of
European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)
www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/index.html
CESSDA promotes the acquisition, archiving and distribution of electronic data for social science research and instruction in Europe.
ECPAT
International
www.ecpat.net
ECPAT is a network of organizations working to eliminate child prostitution, child pornography, and trafficking of children for sexual purposes. The website allows one to search for facts and figures by country, and also has an online resource center and database with full-text reports.
International
Comparisons of Criminal Justice Statistics 2001
www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/hosb1203.pdf
This bulletin brings together statistical information on criminal justice collected by the Home Office and the Council of Europe. The data covers all the European Union Member States, the EU accession countries, and other selected countries up to 2001. More recent information for England and Wales covers the period up to 2002/2003.
NationMaster.com
www.nationmaster.com
Statistical database that generates graphical comparisons of countries on a number of different crimes, as well as other national indicators such as economy, education, health, and more.
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
www.oecd.org/statsportal/0,3352,en_2825_293564_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
The OECD maintains multiple databases, searchable by topic or country. Data categories of note include: development, demography and population, globalization, and social and welfare statistics. In English and French.
SourceOECD Factbooks: Victimization Statistics
The SourceOECD factbooks, produced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, offer statistics victimization rates in member countries. In English and French.
Chronology
of Significant International Terrorism for 2004
www.mipt.org/pdf/Country-Reports-Terrorism-2005.pdf
Country
Reports on Terrorism
Country
Reports on Terrorism provide a full and complete record for those
countries and groups involved in international terrorism. This annual
report is the successor to the Patterns of Global Terrorism reports.
Center for Systemic Peace: High Casualty Terrorist Bombing Events
www.systemicpeace.org/HCTBSep09.pdf
Patterns of Global Terrorism
Reports patterns of terrorism across the globe as well as patterns of state-sponsored terrorism in a number of countries.
Intentional Homicide Statistics (2004) - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/IHS-rates-05012009.pdf
Intimate Partner Violence among Couples in 10 DHS Countries: Predictors and Health Outcomes
www.measuredhs.com/pubs/pdf/AS18/AS18.pdf
From the executive summary: "[t]he goals of this study are threefold: 1) To report the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) among currently married or cohabiting women in 10 developing countries 2) To identify key characteristics in each country, including couple characteristics, associated with experiencing physical or sexual IPV 3) To describe the association between women’s experience of IPV and selected reproductive, nutritional, and child health outcomes. This report analyzes data from 10 recent Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS): Bangladesh (2004), Bolivia (2003/2004), the Dominican Republic (2002), Haiti (2005), Kenya (2003), Malawi (2004), Moldova (2005), Rwanda (2005), Zambia (2001/2002), and Zimbabwe (2005/2006)."