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The World of crime : Breaking the silence on problems of security, justice and development across the World (Record no. 33960)

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Personal name Dijk Jan Van
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Title The World of crime : Breaking the silence on problems of security, justice and development across the World
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Sage Publications
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2008
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Extent 434p
Dimensions xvii
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Formatted contents note Table of contents<br/>PART I. THE CHALLENGE OF MEASURING CRIME INTERNATIONALLY;<br/>Chapter 1. The need of better crime diagnostics;<br/>The uses of international crime statistics;<br/>International crime statistics: the sorry state of the art;<br/>Crime as a social construct;<br/>International crime statistics as controversial knowledge;<br/>Twenty years of thwarted efforts;<br/>ICVS: bringing the bad news;<br/>Breaking the silence;<br/>Summary points/in conclusion;<br/>Chapter 2. Mismeasuring Crime;<br/>International crime figures available;<br/>A crime is a crime ?;<br/>Recording practices of the police;<br/>Reporting patterns;<br/>The breakthrough of crime victimization surveys;<br/>Victim satisfaction and trust levels;<br/>The more recorded crime, the less crime ?;<br/>Police recorded crime and victimization rates compared;<br/>Other uses of police recorded crime statistics;<br/>Police figures as trend indicators;<br/>A moratorium on police figures?;<br/>The political context of crime surveying;<br/>Summary points/in conclusion;<br/>PART II. COMMON CRIMES ACROSS THE WORLD;<br/>Chapter 3. The burden of property crime;<br/>Over all levels of crime;<br/>Five year victimization rates;<br/>Alternative measures of the crime burden;<br/>Victimization by property crime;<br/>Burglary;<br/>Theft and frauds;<br/>Consumer fraud;<br/>Car crimes;<br/>Car theft and joyriding;<br/>Car hijacking;<br/>Robbery;<br/>Kidnapping;<br/>The heavy crime burden of the business sector;<br/>Costs for businesses;<br/>Summary points/ in conclusion;<br/>Chapter 4. Patterns of violent crime;<br/>Homicide;<br/>National homicide rates;<br/>Assault;<br/>Hate crimes in Western Europe;<br/>Sexual assault/ rape;<br/>Violence against women revisited;<br/>Towards further standardization;<br/>Child abuse and the cycle of violence;<br/>Summary points/ in conclusion;<br/>Chapter 5. Determinants of common crimes;<br/>Comparative perspectives;<br/>Urbanization and crime;<br/>Regional patterns and future trends of urbanization;<br/>Demographics and crime;<br/>Future demographic trends;<br/>Affluence and crime;<br/>Mass transportation and crime;<br/>Patterns of vehicle theft at second sight;<br/>More affluence-less crime?;<br/>Development and crime revisited;<br/>Poverty and inequality;<br/>Criminal victimization and gender inequality;<br/>Drugs and alcohol abuse;<br/>Alcohol abuse and violence;<br/>Trends in alcohol consumption;<br/>Availability of guns;<br/>Firearms and violent crime;<br/>Guns and violence in developing countries;<br/>Summary points/in conclusion;<br/>Chapter 6. Global crime trends;<br/>Global trends in common crimes;<br/>European trends in focus;<br/>Trends in police recorded crimes;<br/>Explaining the drop in crime;<br/>Responsive securitization and the drop in crime;<br/>The growing North-South security divide;<br/>Crime and conflict;<br/>Latin America: the price of democracy;<br/>Summary points/in conclusion (part II);<br/>PART III. EMERGING GLOBAL CRIME THREATS;<br/>Chapter 7. Assessing organized crime;<br/>The new crime threats;<br/>The changing nature of organized crime;<br/>Illicit markets;<br/>Defining organized crime;<br/>Measurement issues;<br/>The alternative of victimization surveys among the business community;<br/>Towards an organized crime perception index;<br/>Other "markers" of organized crime presence;<br/>Instrumental violence;<br/>The organized crime-corruption complex;<br/>Other "markers" of organized crime: money-laundering and the black economy;<br/>Composite organized crime index;<br/>Country scores;<br/>Trends in organized crime;<br/>Participation of national organized crime groups in criminal markets;<br/>Trafficking in persons;<br/>Organized car theft;<br/>The intercorrelates of crime;<br/>Tentative transnational responses;<br/>The US report on trafficking in persons;<br/>Summary points/in conclusion;<br/>Chapter 8. Other global security threats: corruption, terrorism and cyber crime;<br/>Defining corruption;<br/>Corruption indicators : perceptions and experiences;<br/>Assessing the merits of objective and subjective indicator;<br/>Corruption victimizations in the corporate world;<br/>Business crime surveys;<br/>Patterns and trends in terrorist crimes;<br/>The incidence of terrorism;<br/>Correlates of terrorism;<br/>Terrorism and organized crime;<br/>Cyber crime : trends in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) crimes;<br/>Computer-facilitated crime;<br/>No Asian exception;<br/>Computers, organized crime and terrorism;<br/>Summary point/in conclusion: redrawing the global crime map;<br/>PART IV. INTERNATIONAL TRENDS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE;<br/>Chapter 9. Law enforcement, crime prevention and victim assistance;<br/>Trends in criminal justice resources;<br/>Allocation of resources to law enforcement and criminal justice;<br/>Human resources for police and private security;<br/>Police workloads;<br/>The private security industry;<br/>Trends in private policing;<br/>More police-less crime?;<br/>Homicide conviction rates as performance measure;<br/>Towards a composite index for police performance;<br/>Resources, performance and integrity;<br/>Victim empowerment and support;<br/>Victim reception by the police;<br/>Trends in victim satisfaction;<br/>Victim support services;<br/>Implementing the UN Victims Declaration;<br/>International best practices in crime prevention;<br/>Guidelines for the prevention of crime;<br/>Evidence-based approaches;<br/>Planning and implementation;<br/>Summary points/in conclusion;<br/>Chapter 10. Courts and sentencing;<br/>Judges and magistrates;<br/>Gender balance in the courts;<br/>Perceived independence and integrity of the judiciary;<br/>Towards an international code of conduct for judges;<br/>Public attitudes towards sentencing;<br/>In conclusion;<br/>Chapter 11. Corrections: a global perspective;<br/>Trends in prisoners rates;<br/>National prison populations;<br/>Expanding use of imprisonement;<br/>Interpreting prisoners rates;<br/>Costs and limits of imprisonment;<br/>The search for alternatives;<br/>Benchmarking prisoners rates;<br/>An index of punitiveness;<br/>Summary points/in conclusion;<br/>PART V. INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON CRIME AND JUSTICE;<br/>Chapter 12. Security, rule of law and sustainable development;<br/>Introductory remarks;<br/>Legal institutions and the level of non-conventional crime;<br/>Rule of law and terrorism;<br/>Trafficking in persons and police performance.;<br/>Good governance and development;<br/>Good governance, development and the rule of crime;<br/>Organized crime as Troian horse;<br/>Vicious crimino-economic circles;<br/>Summary points/in conclusion;<br/>Chapter 13. Crime and justice: the need of global reform;<br/>Diagnosing crime;<br/>A culture of lawfullness;<br/>Country profiles at a glance;<br/>Costs of crime: the global crime bill;<br/>Lawfulness and human development;<br/>The North- South 'security divide';<br/>The 'justice deficit';<br/>Security and justice reform first;<br/>The UN Millenium Development Goals;<br/>A more secure world;<br/>Appendix A: Datasources and data;<br/>International Crime Victim Surveys (ICVS);<br/>Methodology;<br/>Definitions;<br/>Technical note on ICVS data presentation;<br/>The International Crime Business Survey (ICBS);<br/>The International Violence Against Women Survey (IVAWS);<br/>The United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems;<br/>Definition of terms;<br/>Some Other Techincal Matters;<br/>Method for construction of composite indexes;<br/>Method for constructing scatter plots;<br/>Method for constructing bar charts;<br/>Appendix B Data tables;<br/>Index;<br/>References;<br/>Appendix B: Data tables;<br/>Index;<br/>References
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