Oxford LibGuides: Criminology: Statistics

Statistics for criminology

The following database requires an Oxford SSO for remote access. Crime & Law Enforcement is a category within the Industry Society. It not only produces reports, tables, infographics etc based on statistics but also links you through to the statistics used to produce them.

Statista
Statista is a statistics and studies portal containing reports and data on over 80,000 topics and 170 industries. The data is from government institutions, international organizations, market research institutes, and surveys carried out by Statista.

If you are looking for UK criminal statistics:

data.police.uk
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Every month each police force generates a Crime and ASB file and a Police Outcomes file in a set format. The forces upload these to a private server managed by the Single Online Home National Digital Team in the Government network, where the files undergo quality assurance.

Copies of the data from police forces is then sent to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), where they try to match the crimes with any court results contained in their own records. The MoJ send any matching court results back to the Single Online Home National Digital Team, where they are integrated with the existing data.
All data is then anonymised before being published to this site.
UK Data Service Crime
The UK’s only nationally funded research infrastructure for curating and providing access to social science data. The Link takes you to home page for Crime-related data which [see more]
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includes "not only national crime surveys (which themselves cover diverse issues such as identity theft and alcohol-related disorder in the night-time economy) but also illegal drug use, workers in the criminal justice system, football hooliganism and community policing in Africa."

If you are interested in English/UK criminal justice statistics, please consult the special Guides from my colleague in Official Papers.

Criminal and Judicial Statistics: 1800 to present day
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Official Papers for Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies
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International collections

UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC): statistics on crime & criminal justice
UNODC: Reports on world crime trends 2010 -
Official website
EuroStat: Crime and Justice Overview
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Police-recorded offences by type of crime; Homicide victims by age, gender, and relationship to offender; Offenders by justice process stage (suspected, prosecuted, convicted) and by age and gender; Personnel by institution (police, prosecution, courts, and prisons) by gender;
Legal cases by type and stage; Prisoners by age, gender and citizenship; Prison capacity and occupancy.

Some national sites for crimininal statistics

NACJD: National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (USA)
NACJD hosts several large-scale datasets, including the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), and the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN).
Uniform Crime Reports (USA)
Official FBI website UCR "Program generates reliable statistics for use in law enforcement. It also provides information for students of criminal justice, researchers, the media, and the public. The program has been providing crime statistics since 1930 .... includes data from more than 18,000 city, university and college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies. "
Statistics Canada: Crime, justice and community safety
Official website. Since 1981, the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Deputy Ministers Responsible for Justice and Public Safety in Canada have been working together, along with the Chief Statistician of Canada, in an enterprise known as the National Justice Statistics Initiative (NJSI). The mandate of the NJSI is to provide information to the justice community and the public on the nature and extent of crime and victimization and the administration of criminal and civil justice in Canada. "As the operational arm of the NJSI, the Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics (CCJCSS), a division of Statistics Canada, is responsible for the development, collection, integration and analysis of data that reflect trends in Canada and on the development of national- and jurisdictional-level indicators."
Australian Bureau of Statistics: Crime and Justice
Official website
Justice Statistics New Zealand
Official website
Les statistiques et chiffres clés du ministère de la Justice (France)
Official website
Destatis Statistisches Bundesamt Justiz und Rechtspflege (Germany)
Official website

Statistics for Criminal Justice and Criminology in Practice and Research by Jack Fitzgerald; Jerry Fitzgerald
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link.
ISBN: 1412993687
Publication Date: 2013
The Social Science Library has a lending copy at QA276.12.FIT 2013. The Bodleian Law Library has a reference copy at Crim 500 F553.6a.
Just Algorithms : using science to reduce incarceration and inform a jurisprudence of risk by Christopher Slobogin
Call Number: Crim 600 S634.5a
ISBN: 9781108833974
Publication Date: 2021
Why crime rates fall and why they don't by Michael Tonry (Editor)
Call Number: Crim 500 T666e
ISBN: 022620877X
Publication Date: 2015
Crime and justice (Chicago, Ill.) ; v. 43.

Criminal statistics is a subject search in SOLO

International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS)
"The ICCS is the tool [used by UNODC] to understand crime extent and drivers. ... The ICCS was endorsed by the United Nations Statistical Commission, at its 46th session in March 2015, and the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) at its 24th session in May 2015 as an international statistical standard for data collection."
DMP online
Registration is free.
Funding bodies increasingly require their grant-holders to produce a Data Management Plan (DMP), both during the bid-preparation stage and after funding has been secured. DMPonline helps research teams respond to this requirement, and any expectations that their institution or others may apply.
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DMPonline is based on the open source DMPRoadmap codebase, which is jointly developed by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the University of California Curation Center (UC3). The DCC & UC3 work closely with research funders and universities to produce a tool that generates active DMPs and caters for the whole lifecycle of a project, from bid-preparation stage through to completion.

How the tool works
There are a number of templates within the tool that represent the requirements of different funders and institutions. Users are asked three questions at the outset so we can determine the appropriate template to display (e.g. the ESRC template when applying for an ESRC grant). Guidance is provided to help you interpret and answer the questions. This guidance is provided by researcher funders, universities and discipline

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