إحصاءات الجريمة في الوطن العربي وآفاق تطويرها واستثمارها في تعزيز أمن المجتمع

الملخص EN

Arab Statistics on Crime and The Prospects for its development and investment in achieving community security.

Knowing the methods of criminal statistics has become an important matter for every researcher in crime, and every person interested in developing an effective criminal policy that leads to maintaining security and preventing crime.

Criminal statistics means the process of collecting and analyzing data on registered.

crime in order to determine the size of the crime trends and classify it according to its types, location, times, style and motives, then knowing the relationship between it and the various variables from social, cultural, economic and environmental.

There are three main sources that rely on as a source of crime statistics, each of which has its advantages and disadvantages : the first is statistics of cases registered at the police stations, then court statistics, and prison statistics Statistics as a scientific tool that has become providing the necessary information, in a way that officials, at their various levels of planning and implementation, can make decisions on various businesses and services, based on this information.

The crime statistics is the primary means of providing forensic requirements.

The researcher cannot know the status of criminality and the success of the means and measures taken, unless he has detailed and analyzed data on these matters available to him.

Therefore, criminal statistics should include all relevant data from the roles of crime prevention and social care, until they reach the role of punishment, reform, and aftercare, whether it is related to crime, criminal, regulations, procedures, measures, or the social system alike.

With this, researchers can carry out their research and studies, in a sound and integrated approach, leading to treatment and repair measures.

There are a number of criticisms of government statistics, the first of which is black numbers, where a significant proportion of criminal activity does not reach the knowledge of the authorities called hidden or hidden crimes or (black figures) .We have experience in Iraq in using statistics to evaluate the performance of directorates of the governorates of Iraq's police in the year 2000.

Statistics also have importance in shaping criminal policy for crime prevention .The research reached a number of recommendations and proposals.