The adoption of the International Classification is a process that will vary from one country to another depending on different aspects, such as statistical capacities, available resources, national priorities and the institutional environment. UNODC and the UNODC-INEGI Center of Excellence provide training, technical assistance and support to facilitate the process from planning to implementation.
Overall, UNODC promotes a step-by-step process divided into different phases for the ICCS adoption. These steps represent a starting point, but each country can and should adapt this proposal to its own context and needs.
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Assessment and planning
It seeks to determine the scope of the ICCS adoption process. To this end, it is suggested that an assessment of the national statistical system be carried out, including reviewing the methodologies, processes and tools used for the data collection on security and justice. It also involves identifying the legislation, classifications, catalogs and systems that will be impacted by ICCS. The stage concludes with the development of a national work plan..
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Gradual implementation
It includes activities to align national statistical production with the ICCS. This stage includes the officialization of the correspondence tables through their publication as a National Classification. It also encourages the integration of the new categories in security and justice institutions' registry systems.
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Dissemination and engagement
This includes activities to identify and engage all institutions that collect and produce crime data, as well as their main users. This stage seeks to disseminate, raise awareness and ensure the participation of all interested stakeholders. The stage ends with the establishment of a national governance structure to guide the coordinated work for ICCS adoption.
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Mapping of crimes and variables
The central stage of the process requires mapping national crimes to ICCS categories. The process involves the creation of correspondence tables that guide institutions in classifying the information in their administrative records in a standardized way. This process includes the harmonization of the disaggregation variables contained in the ICCS.
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Statistical production
It invites countries to increasingly generate statistical products, by publishing a progressively greater volume of data in line with the ICCS categories. It includes the development of dissemination plans, products and publications. It also contemplates the reporting of this new data at the international level.
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