2nd. International Conference on Governance, Crime and Justice Statistics
Program

Registration

Opening Session

• Eduardo Sojo, President, INEGI
• José Antonio Meade Kuribreña, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, México
  
• Antonio Mazzitelli, UNODC Representative for México
  
• Martine Durand, Chief Statistician, OECD
  
• Angela Me, Chief, Research and Trend Analysis Branch, UNODC
  
• Mario Palma, Vicepresident for Information on Government, Public Safety and Justice, INEGI

Keynote. Post 2015 : Indicators for Good Governance and Rule of Law

Angela Me, Chief of the Research and Trend Analysis Branch,UNODC

Chaired by Martine Durand, Chief Statistician, OECD

Roundtable. Use of governance, crime and justice statistics for policy-making

- Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh, USA

- Paulina Duarte, OAS

- Jim Lynch, University of Maryland, USA

Chaired by Eduardo Sojo Garza Aldape, INEGI, Mexico

Session. Conceptualizing and measuring governance

- Not your Father’s Metrics: towards a new generation of governance indicators
Nathaniel Heller, Global integrity

- Producing official statistics on governance, peace and security in Africa: Methodological options and institutional arrangements
Marie Laberge, Regional Service Centre for Africa

- Measuring democratic governance for development: a longitudinal statistical model of targets and indicators
Mark Orkin, University of Witwatersrand, Southafrica

- Measuring governance: a few lessons learnt
Francesca Recanatini, World Bank Chaired by Enrique Cabrero, CONACYT

Session. Measuring Organized Crime and its impact

- Quantification and the Problem of Measuring Effectiveness of Measures against Organized Crime
Michael Levi, Cardiff University, United Kingdom

- Ten impediments to the quantification of organized crime
Russell Smith, Australian Institute of Criminology, Australia

- We are a necessary evil: the business ethics of organized criminal groups in Mexico
Kari Moe Jacobson, ITESM Campus Santa Fe, Mexico

- Challenges in Measuring Organized Crime in Latin America and Caribbean Transcrime
Chaired by Ernesto Savona, Transcrime

Session. National and international experiences in measuring governance and related concepts

- Grafting governance modules on official household surveys : experiences from Africa, Latin America and Asia, and challenges
François Roubaud, Dial, Francia

- European Social Survey
Monica Ferrin, European Institute
 
- Strategy for Harmonization of Statistics in Africa  - Governance, Peace and Security: Cape Verde Results
Antonio dos Reis and Mariana Pereira Neves, Cabo Verde Statistical Office

- The Australian experience with governance statistics
Gemma Van Halderen, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australia

Chaired by Marco Mira d’Ercole, OECD

Session. Upcoming international standards for crime statistics

-The International Classification of Crime, a cornerstone to improve national and international crime statistics?
Enrico Bisogno, UNODC

- Challenges and policy implications in  developing a National Crime Classification system Challenges and policy implications in  developing a National Crime Classification system
Paul Wormeli, US Academy Science Panel

- The importance of classifying offenses for statistical purposes in making decisions / public policy: the case of Mexico
Edgar Guerrero, INEGI, Mexico

- Standardizing Victimization Surveys in Latin America
Salomé Flores Sierra Franzoni, INEGI – UNODC Center of Excellence

Chaired by Giulia Mugellini, University of St. Gallen - Law School

Session. Measuring political participation

- How to measure political participation in Mexico
Luis Carlos Ugalde, Integralia, Mexico

- Analizing and evaluating local governance: participative offer in Mexican municipalities
Ana Díaz, CIDE, Mexico

- Cast a ballot or protest in the street: did our grandfathers do more of both
Marcos Aurelio Diaz, Science Po

- Measuring social protest action as a form of political participation

- Gareth Newham, Governance, Crime and Justice Division, Institute for Security Studies, Southafrica and  Lizette Meyer, South African Crime and Justice Information and Analysis Hub

Session. Measuring Corruption

- Statistical Measurement of Corruption: Experiences and Challenges
Blagica Novkovska, Macedonia Statistical Office, Macedonia

- Strategies for measuring corruption in Mexico: the case of the National Survey on Governmental Quality and Impact
Oscar Jaimes Bello, INEGI, Mexico

- National statistics on governance, corruption and anti-corruption: the power of information, and how to get it
Jesper Johnson, CHR Michelsen Institute, Norway

- Corruption in the Private Sector: a comparative overview of trends and patterns   
Giulia Mugellini,University of St. Gallen - Law School

Cocktail

Keynote

Hot spots and crime: research and policy implications

David Weisburd, Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, George Mason University, USA

Chaired by Rolando Ocampo, INEGI, Mexico

Keynote. Are there drug problem indicators that can be useful for criminal justice policy purposes?
Peter Reuter, School of Public Policy and Department of Criminology, University of Maryland, USA

Chaired by Mario Palma, INEGI, Mexico

Session. Trends in homicide statistics as a key metric in analyzing violent crime

- Global Study on Homicide

Jenna Dawson, UNODC

- Dynamics of murder in Italy and trasformation of criminals patterns
Fabio Piacenti, EURES

- Trends of homicide: towards a characterization of the phenomenon in Chile Felipe Salazar Tobar, Ministerio del Interior, Chile

- Intentional Homicides and their spatial relation with the socio-economic environment: Ciudad Juárez, 2009-2013
Alejandro Brugués Rodríguez and M.C. Israel Diaz Arcos, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico

Chaired by Alejandro Hope, IMCO

Session. Trafficking of Human Beings Public Policies

- Statistical Challenges for getting data on Human Trafficking
Fernanda Ezeta, Mexico

- Results of access to information on the efficiency of fighting human trafficking
Francisco Rivas, Observatorio Nacional Ciudadano; México

Chaired by Felipe de la Torre, UNODC

Session. Measuring trust in governments and other perceptions by people on how government institutions function

- Public Sector Accountability in Brazil: how the Federal Court of Accounts is improving governance
Ricardo Corrêa Gomes, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil

- Political crises in Madagascar: the rural majority have they been the law of the urban minority?
Faly Hery Rakotomanana, Institut National de la Statistique - Madagascar

- Measuring trust in government. Expectations, Performance and Realities. Adrian Franco, INEGI, Mexico

- Why measuring trust in public institutions is key for public policy making and how can it be improved?”
Zsuzsanna Lonti, OCDE

Session. Crime Statistics in Asia

- National Crime and Justice Information System in the Philippines
Regina Reyes, National Statistical Coordination Board, Philippines

- Learning from Scratch(es): Developing a Criminal Justice Statistics Database in Thailand
Aaron Johnson, Institute of Justice, Thailand

- An Analysis of the Factors that Influence Internet Searches on Cyber Bullying using Social Big Data
Juyoyng Song, Korean Institute of Criminology, Korea

Chaired by Fiona Downsley, Chief Statistician, Crime Statistics Agency at Department of Justice, Victoria, Australia

Session. Alternative methods to measure drug problems.

- New trends and developments on the European drug market
Jane Mounteney, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Portugal
 

- The global context of drug trafficking: a social network analysis of seizure data
Rémi Boivin, Université de Montréal, Canada

- Assessing drug-related harms: Are we measuring what matters?
Benedikt Fischer, Simon Fraser University, Canada

- The Cannabis Policy Landscape
Beau Kilmer, RAND Corporation, USA

Session. How to asses prisons policies?

- Can Global corrections performance measures be developed? Lessons from Australia
James Byrne, Griffith University, Australia

- Organizing crime from behind bars: Prison gangs and the invisible erosion of State Authority.
Benjamin Lessing, University of Chicago, USA

- What Works in Designing More Effective Correctional Programs: The Characteristics of Effective Programs and the Barriers to Effective Implementation
Ed Latessa, UCincinnati, USA

Chaired by Carlos Vilalta, CIDE

Government at Glance 2014: Latin America and the Caribbean

• Edwin Lau, OCDE
• Chaired by Eduardo Sojo Garza Aldape, INEGI

Coffee Break

Session. Innovation on Victimization Surveys

- A Quantum of Crime in an Unfair World
Tim Hope, University of Salford, UK

- Analysis and characterization of sectors of urban insecurity through surveys of perception and urban information systems
Ricardo Villasís-Keever, UASLP, Mexico

- Innovations in population- based surveys
Maire Sinha, Statistics Canada, Canada

- Measuring serious crimes with symmetric information from home members
Edgar Vielma, INEGI, Mexico

- Challenges & evolution of the National Crime Victimization Survey
Timothy Kennel, U.S. Census Bureau, USA

Chaired by Michael Rand, INEGI – UNODC Center of Excellence

Session. Let the numbers speak for justice

- Costa Rica: an empirical approximation to impunity and its associated factors.
Evelyn Villarreal, Estado Nación, Costa Rica

- El derecho de acceso a la justicia en el caso de las mujeres condenadas penalmente en México: cuantificación y evaluación
Rocío González Velázquez, University Pompeu Fabra

- The importance of statistical information in the procurement of justice process
Edgar Elías Azar, President of the National Commission of High Courts of Justice in Mexico, the Mexico City High Court of Justice and the Mexico City Judicial Council , Mexico

Chaired by Alejandra Gómez Céspedes, INEGI – UNODC Center of Excellence

Session. Building Justice Statistics

- Beyond the sniff test: practitioner challenges in assessing justice system data?
Fiona Dowsley, Chief Statistician, Crime Statistics Agency at Department of Justice, Victoria, Australia

- Mariana Benítez, PGR, Mexico

- Juan Pablo Gordillo, Regional Adviser of Citizen Security for Latin America and the Caribbean, UNDP Panama

Chaired by Adrián Franco, INEGI

Roundtable. Alternative methods to measure crime

- Measuring Violence with Open Sources
Eduardo Guerrero Gutiérrez, Lantia, Mexico

- Peace in Mexico: How to measure it?
Paty de Obeso, Institute for Economics and Peace, USA

- Reducing crime by reducing criminal risk: strain, social disorganization and re-offending in Latin America
Carlos Vilalta, CIDE

Chaired by Jorge Srur, BID

Session. The strategic input of National Statistical Offices to Crime Statistics

- Maria Giuseppina Muratore, ISTAT, Italia

- Gemma Van Halderen, Australia Bureau of Statistics, Australia

- Timothy Kennel, US Census Bureau, USA

- Philippines, Regina Reyes, Philippines Statistical Authority,

- Mario Palma, INEGI, Mexico

Chaired by Salomé Flores, INEGI – UNODC Center of Excellence

Session. Crime Statistics and Policy Making

- The Crime Numbers Game: Management by Manipulation
Eli Silverman, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA

- On the integration of Victim Surveys and Police Data the case of the Netherlands
P.R. Smit, S. Ministry of Justice, Netherlands

- Performance measurement of criminal justice institutions
Rodolfo Sarsfield, UAQ, México

Chaired by Edna Jaime, México Evalúa, México.

Closing Session

Challenges and opportunities in developing integrated crime and criminal justice statistical systems

Angela Me, UNODC
James Lynch, University of Maryland
Mario Palma, INEGI

Chaired by Antonio Mazzitelli, UNODC

Closed Meeting for Member Countries of the Crime and Justice Statistics Group of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean