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Using Cross-National Studies to Illuminate the Crime Problem

One Less Data Source Left Standing

Marilyn Marks Rubin

John Jay College, New York, New York

Richard Culp

John Jay College, New York, New York

Peter Mameli

John Jay College, New York, New York

Michael Walker

Passaic County Community College, Paterson, New Jersey

As a result of the 2005 decision by Interpol to no longer collect and disseminate police crime data, the UN biennial crime survey is now the only source of publicly available police data for studying crime trends extending over many years and covering a wide range of crimes and countries. This article assesses the effect of this "and then there was one" phenomenon through an analysis and comparison of member nation responses to the UN and Interpol crime data surveys for the year 2002. The article takes advantage of having two data sets covering police-recorded crime to analyze the quality of the UN survey data and to suggest ways to improve it. Better UN data not only will provide the basis for more robust scholarly comparisons of crime across national borders but can also yield results to illuminate crime problems worldwide.

Key Words: criminal justice • Interpol • police crime data • United Nations

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Vol. 24, No. 1, 50-68 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1043986207312937
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