11 December 2017 - A Regional Training Course on the Implementation of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS) was jointly organized by UNODC, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ) and Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) in Daejeon, Republic of Korea, 5 - 7 December 2017. It was the fourth regional meeting in the Asia-Pacific region aimed at improving the availability and quality of statistics on crime and criminal justice statistics, following two successful regional workshops on statistics on crime and criminal justice (Bangkok in December 2014 and Seoul in November 2016), as well as a comprehensive Regional Training Course on Victimization Surveys (Pattaya, Thailand, in June 2017).
The Regional Training Course, based on the experience of UNODC in supporting the implementation of the ICCS in countries around the world, aimed to raise awareness about the importance of establishing and applying common statistical concepts on crime and criminal justice data and to provide guidance on the implementation of the ICCS across institutions and jurisdictions.
With the use of concrete examples and exercises, the Regional Training Course discussed the practical aspects of planning and implementing the 'road map' for ICCS implementation and for mapping national crime categories into the international framework. Furthermore, the Training Course examined the application of the ICCS in reporting on selected indicators on violence, access to justice and corruption for monitoring targets under Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 and in reporting data to the annual United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of the Criminal Justice System (UN-CTS).
The Training Course was attended by over 40 participants from 16 countries in the region, including Bhutan, China, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Kyrgyzstan Republic, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vanuatu and Vietnam.
MODULE 1. THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF CRIME FOR STATISTICAL PURPOSES (ICCS): INTRODUCTION
MODULE 2. THE ROAD MAP FOR ICCS IMPLEMENTATION
MODULE 3. BUILDING CORRESPONDENCE TABLES
MODULE 4. ICCS MAPPING EXERCISE
MODULE 5. ICCS DISAGGREGATING VARIABLES ('TAGS')
MODULE 6: THE REVISED UN-CTS AND THE ICCS
MODULE 7: INDICATORS FOR SDG 16 AND THE ICCS
MODULE 8: THE SDGS, THE ICCS AND CRIME VICTIMIZATION SURVEYS