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100			_aDijk Jan Van
245			_aThe World of crime : Breaking the silence on problems of security, justice and development across the World
260			_aLondon _bSage Publications _c2008
300			_a434p _cxvii
365			_b Rs. 5,615
505			_aTable of contents PART I. THE CHALLENGE OF MEASURING CRIME INTERNATIONALLY; Chapter 1. The need of better crime diagnostics; The uses of international crime statistics; International crime statistics: the sorry state of the art; Crime as a social construct; International crime statistics as controversial knowledge; Twenty years of thwarted efforts; ICVS: bringing the bad news; Breaking the silence; Summary points/in conclusion; Chapter 2. Mismeasuring Crime; International crime figures available; A crime is a crime ?; Recording practices of the police; Reporting patterns; The breakthrough of crime victimization surveys; Victim satisfaction and trust levels; The more recorded crime, the less crime ?; Police recorded crime and victimization rates compared; Other uses of police recorded crime statistics; Police figures as trend indicators; A moratorium on police figures?; The political context of crime surveying; Summary points/in conclusion; PART II. COMMON CRIMES ACROSS THE WORLD; Chapter 3. The burden of property crime; Over all levels of crime; Five year victimization rates; Alternative measures of the crime burden; Victimization by property crime; Burglary; Theft and frauds; Consumer fraud; Car crimes; Car theft and joyriding; Car hijacking; Robbery; Kidnapping; The heavy crime burden of the business sector; Costs for businesses; Summary points/ in conclusion; Chapter 4. Patterns of violent crime; Homicide; National homicide rates; Assault; Hate crimes in Western Europe; Sexual assault/ rape; Violence against women revisited; Towards further standardization; Child abuse and the cycle of violence; Summary points/ in conclusion; Chapter 5. Determinants of common crimes; Comparative perspectives; Urbanization and crime; Regional patterns and future trends of urbanization; Demographics and crime; Future demographic trends; Affluence and crime; Mass transportation and crime; Patterns of vehicle theft at second sight; More affluence-less crime?; Development and crime revisited; Poverty and inequality; Criminal victimization and gender inequality; Drugs and alcohol abuse; Alcohol abuse and violence; Trends in alcohol consumption; Availability of guns; Firearms and violent crime; Guns and violence in developing countries; Summary points/in conclusion; Chapter 6. Global crime trends; Global trends in common crimes; European trends in focus; Trends in police recorded crimes; Explaining the drop in crime; Responsive securitization and the drop in crime; The growing North-South security divide; Crime and conflict; Latin America: the price of democracy; Summary points/in conclusion (part II); PART III. EMERGING GLOBAL CRIME THREATS; Chapter 7. Assessing organized crime; The new crime threats; The changing nature of organized crime; Illicit markets; Defining organized crime; Measurement issues; The alternative of victimization surveys among the business community; Towards an organized crime perception index; Other "markers" of organized crime presence; Instrumental violence; The organized crime-corruption complex; Other "markers" of organized crime: money-laundering and the black economy; Composite organized crime index; Country scores; Trends in organized crime; Participation of national organized crime groups in criminal markets; Trafficking in persons; Organized car theft; The intercorrelates of crime; Tentative transnational responses; The US report on trafficking in persons; Summary points/in conclusion; Chapter 8. Other global security threats: corruption, terrorism and cyber crime; Defining corruption; Corruption indicators : perceptions and experiences; Assessing the merits of objective and subjective indicator; Corruption victimizations in the corporate world; Business crime surveys; Patterns and trends in terrorist crimes; The incidence of terrorism; Correlates of terrorism; Terrorism and organized crime; Cyber crime : trends in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) crimes; Computer-facilitated crime; No Asian exception; Computers, organized crime and terrorism; Summary point/in conclusion: redrawing the global crime map; PART IV. INTERNATIONAL TRENDS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE; Chapter 9. Law enforcement, crime prevention and victim assistance; Trends in criminal justice resources; Allocation of resources to law enforcement and criminal justice; Human resources for police and private security; Police workloads; The private security industry; Trends in private policing; More police-less crime?; Homicide conviction rates as performance measure; Towards a composite index for police performance; Resources, performance and integrity; Victim empowerment and support; Victim reception by the police; Trends in victim satisfaction; Victim support services; Implementing the UN Victims Declaration; International best practices in crime prevention; Guidelines for the prevention of crime; Evidence-based approaches; Planning and implementation; Summary points/in conclusion; Chapter 10. Courts and sentencing; Judges and magistrates; Gender balance in the courts; Perceived independence and integrity of the judiciary; Towards an international code of conduct for judges; Public attitudes towards sentencing; In conclusion; Chapter 11. Corrections: a global perspective; Trends in prisoners rates; National prison populations; Expanding use of imprisonement; Interpreting prisoners rates; Costs and limits of imprisonment; The search for alternatives; Benchmarking prisoners rates; An index of punitiveness; Summary points/in conclusion; PART V. INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON CRIME AND JUSTICE; Chapter 12. Security, rule of law and sustainable development; Introductory remarks; Legal institutions and the level of non-conventional crime; Rule of law and terrorism; Trafficking in persons and police performance.; Good governance and development; Good governance, development and the rule of crime; Organized crime as Troian horse; Vicious crimino-economic circles; Summary points/in conclusion; Chapter 13. Crime and justice: the need of global reform; Diagnosing crime; A culture of lawfullness; Country profiles at a glance; Costs of crime: the global crime bill; Lawfulness and human development; The North- South 'security divide'; The 'justice deficit'; Security and justice reform first; The UN Millenium Development Goals; A more secure world; Appendix A: Datasources and data; International Crime Victim Surveys (ICVS); Methodology; Definitions; Technical note on ICVS data presentation; The International Crime Business Survey (ICBS); The International Violence Against Women Survey (IVAWS); The United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems; Definition of terms; Some Other Techincal Matters; Method for construction of composite indexes; Method for constructing scatter plots; Method for constructing bar charts; Appendix B Data tables; Index; References; Appendix B: Data tables; Index; References
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