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Resources and Data
Data and Indicators
The Justice in Mexico Project will serve as a resource for academics, policy makers, non-governmental organizations, and other interested parties by providing access to existing data and statistics on multiple aspects of Mexico's criminal justice system; in particular, on crime, victimization and criminal behavior.
Indicators on crime and delinquency are notoriously fraught with problems, particularly in Mexico. Government figures are often unrepresentative of the total number of crimes committed. This is can be due to inadequate record-keeping or even political manipulation of statistics by authorities. Under-reporting by victims who may be unwilling or afraid to report to authorities for a variety of reasons also limits the reliability of such figures.
Nonetheless, the rise of crime as an urgent public policy priority is substantiated by government figures and an increasing pool of other indicators developed by international and domestic non-governmental organizations, as well as surveys that account for victimization and perceptions of crime. The links below provide access to a variety of indicators about crime, including data made available by partner institutions and participants of this project.
Public Security in Mexico: Statistics and Analysis
This site presents Arturo Arango’s Interactive Diagnostic Statistics Database: An interactive database of contemporary crime indicators (1980s-present), with geographic information system applications, compiled by Arturo Arango and Cristina Lara.
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Crime Statistics in Mexico, Historical Series by Pablo Piccato
This data set was compiled by Dr. Pablo Piccato (Columbia University) for the Project on Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico. The data set includes multiple types of crime registered throughout the 20th Century. Major trends indicated by these data suggest that crime has gone down in Mexico over the last hundred years, though the last two decades have seen a noticeable upswing in criminal activity. Presently, the data set and descriptions are available only in Spanish.
 Raw Data- Piccato(an excel file)
Link to Professor’s Piccato Database
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Crime Victimization Survey (2002) conducted by Pablo Parás: For detailed information about this and other surveys, please visit the Latin American Bank of Surveys (BELA)
File 1 (an excel file)
File 2 (an excel file)
File 3 (an excel file)
File 4 (an excel file)
Methodological Note: Levantamiento: 18-19 de mayo, 28 y 29 de septiembre de 2002,12 y 13 de abril de 2003.Tamaño de la muestra: 800 casos en mayo, 801 casos en septiembre de 2002, y 1006 casos en abril de 2003 Metodología: entrevistas personales en domicilio con habitantes del Distrito Federal de 18 años o más. El marco muestral es de secciones electorales, se seleccionan secciones otorgando probabilidad proporcional al tamaño de personas en el listado nominal de cada sección. Se realizan 10 entrevistas por sección siguiendo un método aleatorio de selección de manzanas, hogares y entrevistados. Los resultados se manejan con un nivel de confianza de 95% con margen de error 3.5% en mayo y septiembre en 2002, +/- 3.1% en abril de 2003.
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OTHER RELEVANT LINKS:
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