Crime and criminal justice statistics

Selected international statistics

• Criminal justice statistical resources
  Compiled by the World Criminal Justice Library Network
• Annual reports
  Amnesty International
• International Crime Victim Survey
  Standardised sample surveys that look at householders' experiences of crime, policing, crime prevention and feelings of unsafety in a large number of countries.
• International criminal justice statistical resources
  Compiled by the World Criminal Justice Library Network
• International justice statistics
  US Bureau of Justice Statistics
• International statistics
  US National Criminal Justice Reference Service
• Statistics and research sources
  United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network
• United Nations surveys on crime trends and the operations of criminal justice systems
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Data on the incidence of reported crime and the operations of criminal justice systems from UN member states.
• World factbook of criminal justice systems
  US Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Comparing international trends in recorded violent crime
  Crime facts info, 2006
• European sourcebook of crime and criminal justice statistics
  3rd edition, 2006. Compendium of crime and criminal justice data COE member states. Also available: 2nd edition, 2003, 1st edn, 1999
• The state of crime and the criminal justice system worldwide (PDF 264kB)
  Report of the Secretary-General. Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, 2005
• Cross-national studies in crime and justice
  US Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2004
• International comparisons of criminal justice statistics 2003 | 1999
  UK Home Office statistical bulletins
• Manual for the development of a system of criminal justice statistics (PDF 226kB)
  United Nations, 2003
• Criminal victimisation in seventeen industrialised countries : key-findings from the 2000 International Crime Victims Survey
  J N van Kesteren, P Mayhew and P Nieuwbeerta. Dutch Ministry of Justice, 2000
• International comparisons of recorded violent crime rates for 2000
  Compares the rate of recorded violent crime in New Zealand to rates of violent crime for a range of other western countries.
• Profiles of criminal justice systems in Europe and North America, 1990-1995 (PDF 98kB)
  Kristiina Kangaspunta, Matti Joutsen, Natalia Ollus and Sami Nevala (eds). European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, 1999
• Trends in juvenile violence in European countries
  US Department of Justice, 1998
• A comparison of crime in Australia and other countries
  John Walker, Paul R Wilson, Duncan Chappell, and Donald Weatherburn, 1990