Jamaica adopts international standards to measure victimization and compare it regionally

From August 13 to 17, in the city of Kingston, the Center of Excellence for Statistical Information on Government, Crime, Victimization and Justice (CoE) provided technical assistance to the Steering Committee of the National Crime Victimization Survey of Jamaica (JNCVS 2019), which is made up of officials from the Ministry of National Security (MNS), the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), among others. This assistance is part of the adoption by the State of Jamaica of the Latin America and the Caribbean Crime Victimization Survey Initiative (LACSI) of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), a methodology that addresses the need to create a standardized regional victimization questionnaire to achieve international comparability and its importance to report results for the indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.

The workshop was developed within the framework of cooperation between the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID) and the Ministry of National Security of Jamaica, making Jamaica the first Caribbean country and fifth country in America to adopt the LACSI Initiative, facilitating the analysis of its security context according to international standards such as the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS) and the United Nations Manual on Victimization Surveys.