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Chapter I Aim of the document
from Reference framework for security and criminal justice statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean
A. General objective
To guide national efforts to create standardized statistical information on security and criminal justice in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, aligned with international standards on the subject, for the purpose of improving capacities to manage statistical projects to measure crime and manage the corresponding records.
B. Specific objectives
• Specific Objective 1. Provide references for the structuring, organization and strengthening of systems of security and criminal justice statistics.
• Specific Objective 2. Disseminate and exchange elements that support the development of statistical capacities to generate and make use of administrative records and victimization surveys.
• Specific Objective 3. Contribute to the production of generating statistical information for monitoring the indicators of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, particularly Goals 5, 11 and 16.
• Specific Objective 4. Contribute to the production of more comparable and better-quality data, both within justice system institutions and national statistical offices and between them, in order to inform evidence-based decision-making and the design, supervision and evaluation of public policies.
• Specific Objective 5. Assist the executive and managerial staff of the criminal justice system in planning and implementing their criminal justice information systems, and keeping them technically up to date, making full use of the new information technologies.
• Specific Objective 6. Provide an overview of the challenges that exist in the domain of crime statistics and suggest activities to be undertaken at the international level to address them.
• Specific Objective 7. Promote the use of the new technologies and AI to collect, standardize and analyse information on security and criminal justice.
