VicLab Talks: talking to specialists
Explore our capsules that address a variety of topics directly from passionate specialists in their fields. Listen to researchers, academics, officials from the United Nations, regional or international organizations and countries’ officials in the region as they share their experiences on crime statistics and issues they have encountered during their research.
In these capsules, you will learn about corruption, violence against women and children, victimization in prisons, and other emerging issues such as predictive models using Big Data, cybercrime and firearms possession. Also, some countries in the region share their experiences in implementing their victimization surveys.
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VicLab Talks
The LACSI Initiative
Salomé Flores - Center of Excellence UNODC-INEGI
Crime Victimization Survey in Jamaica
Philone Mantock - Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), Jamaica / Shauna Trowers - Ministry of National Security (MNS), Jamaica
UNODC and Crime Victimization Surveys around the world
Michael Jandl - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
National Urban Public Safety Survey (ENSU)
Mario Alberto Santillana – National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Mexico
The OAS and the collection of security and justice statistics
Karen Bozicovich - Organisation of American States (OAS)
Paraguay Victimization Survey 2019
Leticia Bravard - National Observatory of Security and Citizen Coexistence of the Ministry of the Interior, Paraguay / Héctor Arévalos - General Directorate of Statistics, Surveys and Censuses (DGEEC), Paraguay
SDG16 Survey Module Initiative
Gergerly Hideg - Consultant for UNODC, OHCHR and UNDP
Saint Lucia National Crime Victimization Survey
Edwin St. Catherine - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
ILANUD's crime prevention efforts in Latin America
Douglas Durán - United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD)
Citizen Security and Coexistence Survey (ECSC) of Colombia
Horacio Coral - National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE), Colombia
Estimating the size of drug markets
Beau Kilmer - RAND Drug Policy Research Center, USA
Measuring cybercrime
Michael Levi - Cardiff University, UK
Measuring violence against children
Howard Kress - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA
Challenges in collecting data on drug trafficking, human trafficking and wildlife
Jonathan Caulkins - Heinz University of Carnegie Mellon, USA
How to measure money laundering? The case of the Netherlands
Joras Ferwerda - School of Economics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Integrated Drug Statistics System
Oscar Santiago Quintos - National Office of Drug Policy, Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), Mexico
Victimization surveys in prisons
Marcelo Bergman - Center for Latin American Studies on Insecurity and Violence (CELIV), Tres de Febrero National University, Argentina
The challenges of measuring organised crime in Africa
Mark Shaw - Director of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime
Sources of information and indicators on corruption
Mihály Fazekas - Scientific Project Coordinator, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Collecting data on poaching and illegal wildlife trafficking
Vanda Felbab-Brown - Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Program at The Brookings Institution, USA
National Survey on Violence against Women in Mexico (ENDIREH)
Oscar Jaimes - National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Mexico
Crime prediction using Big Data
Juyoung Song - Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Pennsylvania State University, USA
Sources of information for measuring money laundering
Peter Reuter - Professor in the School of Public Policy and the Department of Criminology at the University of Maryland, USA.
National Specialised Victimization Survey (ENEVIC) of Peru
Aníbal Sánchez - National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), Peru
Collecting data on human trafficking
Ella Cockbain - University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
Guatemala National Victimization Survey (ENPEVI)
Axel Romero - Ministry of Interior, Guatemala
National Victimisation and Citizen Security Survey of Panama
Aracelly de Casanova - Integrated National System of Crime Statistics (SIEC), Panama
National Urban Survey on Citizen Security, Chile
Andrea Guadalupe - Ministry of the Interior and Public Security, Chile / Patricia González - National Institute of Statistics (INE), Chile
Characteristics of multiple victimisation in Mexico
Oscar Jaimes Bello - National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Mexico
Measuring sexual violence through Victimization Surveys
David Cantor - Senior Statistician at Westat Consulting and Research Professor at the University of Maryland, USA
Mexico's National Victimization Survey (ENVIPE)
Edgar Vielma - National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Mexico
How to use Victimization Surveys to measure the 2030 SDGs
Enrico Bisogno - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
The evolution of the National Crime Victimization Survey
James Lynch - University of Maryland, USA
The Crime Survey for England and Wales
Joe Traynor - Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom
Measuring sexual victimization in U.S. Prisons
Allen J. Beck - Bureau of Justice Statistics, Department of Justice, USA.
Methods for measuring firearms possession
Matthias Nowak - Small Arms Survey
Can sexual violence be measured in Victimization Surveys?
Giuseppina Muratore - National Institute of Statistics, Italy
Corruption and victimization
Giulia Mugellini - University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
International Crime Victimization Survey (ICVS)
Jan Van Dijk - Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Crime Victimization Surveys
Angela Me - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)