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Methodologies to Measure the Gender Dimensions of Crime and Violence

dc.contributor.authorShrader, Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-21T19:40:17Z
dc.date.available2014-08-21T19:40:17Z
dc.date.issued2001-07
dc.description.abstractRecent studies have used homicide rates, police statistics, and crime victimization surveys to pinpoint violent areas. The author argues that these useful measures of crime, and violence underestimate certain types of violence (especially non-economic violence) and key dimensions of violence (especially age, and gender). A composite index based on monitoring, and surveillance of homicides, crime statistics, and victimization surveys can provide invaluable "first round" snapshots of urban violence - information to monitor crime trends, warn against incipient crime waves, and indicate areas where more in-depth "second round" studies are needed to explore casualty, the impact of interventions, and public opinion. But a composite index of municipally generated information about trends, depends heavily on the quality of the data collected, and will not explain why trends, or changes occur. Other indicators are needed to strengthen surveillance, and to facilitate the planning of interventions, and evaluation. It would be helpful, for example, to distinguish between social, economic, and political violence, and to provide items on autopsy reports, crime statistics, and victimization surveys to gain insight into what motivates violence. Information useful for analyzing causes of violence might include: 1) Individual: socioeconomic data about victims, and perpetrators, and information about their use of alcohol, drugs, or firearms. 2) Interpersonal: whether victim, and perpetrator belonged to the same family, or household, had an affective relationship, were acquaintances, or were strangers. 3) Institutional: crime characteristics (physical injuries sustained, weapons used, value of property lost, where crime occurred); characteristics of victim, and perpetrator; whether the crime was reported; per capita police, and private security; presence of gangs in community; estimated number of gangs and gang members; level of gang organization (low, medium, high); and, other measures of social capital. 4) Structural: levels of impunity (number of convictions as a ratio of number of arrests); levels of corruption; indices of social exclusion, such as racism, gender discrimination, or areas stigma; the dynamics between violence, and access to (and control of) such resources as land, water, and wealth. Crime mapping, to provide visual confirmation of noted trends, might be combined with information about the relative locations of battered women's shelters, police stations, and the distribution of family violence in residential areas.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/07/1551985/methodologies-measure-gender-dimensions-crime-violence
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-2648
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/19590
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 2648
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectABUSIVE BEHAVIOR
dc.subjectACCESS TO INFORMATION
dc.subjectADULT ABUSE
dc.subjectAGGRESSION
dc.subjectANAL SEX
dc.subjectARMED CONFLICT
dc.subjectCHILD ABUSE
dc.subjectCHILD HEALTH
dc.subjectCHILDHOOD
dc.subjectCIVIL SOCIETY
dc.subjectCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES
dc.subjectCONTRACEPTION
dc.subjectCONVICTIONS
dc.subjectCORRUPTION
dc.subjectCRIME
dc.subjectCRIME STATISTICS
dc.subjectCRIME VICTIMIZATION
dc.subjectCRIME VICTIMS
dc.subjectCRIMES
dc.subjectCRIMINAL JUSTICE
dc.subjectDECISION MAKING
dc.subjectDOMESTIC ABUSE
dc.subjectDOMESTIC VIOLENCE
dc.subjectDRUG TRAFFICKING
dc.subjectDRUG USE
dc.subjectDRUGS
dc.subjectELDER ABUSE
dc.subjectETHICS
dc.subjectFAMILY VIOLENCE
dc.subjectFORMS OF VIOLENCE
dc.subjectGANGS
dc.subjectGENDER DISCRIMINATION
dc.subjectHOMICIDE
dc.subjectHUMAN RIGHTS
dc.subjectINFORMED CONSENT
dc.subjectINJURIES
dc.subjectINTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE
dc.subjectINTERVENTION
dc.subjectINTIMATE PARTNER
dc.subjectINVESTIGATIONS
dc.subjectISOLATION
dc.subjectLEISURE ACTIVITIES
dc.subjectMARITAL STATUS
dc.subjectMATERNAL MORTALITY
dc.subjectMEDICAL SPECIALISTS
dc.subjectMORBIDITY
dc.subjectMORTALITY
dc.subjectOFFENDERS
dc.subjectOFFENSES
dc.subjectPARAMILITARY FORCES
dc.subjectPARTNER ABUSE
dc.subjectPERSONALITY
dc.subjectPHYSICAL ABUSE
dc.subjectPOLITICAL POWER
dc.subjectPREGNANCY
dc.subjectPREGNANT WOMEN
dc.subjectPSYCHOLOGY
dc.subjectPUBLIC HEALTH
dc.subjectPUBLIC OPINION
dc.subjectQUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
dc.subjectRAPE
dc.subjectREFUGEES
dc.subjectRELIGIOUS GROUPS
dc.subjectREPRODUCTIVE DECISION
dc.subjectREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
dc.subjectRESEARCH METHODS
dc.subjectRIGHTS OF THE CHILD
dc.subjectRISK FACTORS
dc.subjectSAFETY
dc.subjectSEVERE VIOLENCE
dc.subjectSEX
dc.subjectSEXUAL ABUSE
dc.subjectSEXUAL ASSAULT
dc.subjectSEXUAL COERCION
dc.subjectSEXUAL HARASSMENT
dc.subjectSEXUAL RELATIONS
dc.subjectSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectSOCIAL EXCLUSION
dc.subjectSOCIAL FACTORS
dc.subjectSOCIAL NETWORKS
dc.subjectSOCIAL STIGMA
dc.subjectTHEFT
dc.subjectUSE OF ALCOHOL
dc.subjectVICTIMS
dc.subjectVIOLENCE
dc.subjectVIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
dc.subjectVIOLENCE RESEARCH
dc.subjectVIOLENT CRIME
dc.titleMethodologies to Measure the Gender Dimensions of Crime and Violenceen
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okr.crosscuttingsolutionareaGender
okr.crossref.titleMethodologies to Measure the Gender Dimensions of Crime and Violence
okr.date.disclosure2001-07-31
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-10T09:13:39.696356Z
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okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/07/1551985/methodologies-measure-gender-dimensions-crime-violence
okr.globalpracticeSocial, Urban, Rural and Resilience
okr.globalpracticeGovernance
okr.globalpracticeHealth, Nutrition, and Population
okr.guid240681468740697952
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-2648
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum000094946_01080704010310
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum1551985
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okr.region.administrativeLatin America & Caribbean
okr.themeSocial protection and risk management
okr.topicHealth Monitoring and Evaluation
okr.topicSocial Development::Social Policy
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Adolescent Health
okr.topicGovernance::Youth and Governance
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Public Health Promotion
okr.topicSocial Development::Children and Youth
okr.topicGender::Gender and Development
okr.unitGender Unit, Latin America and the Caribbean Region
okr.volume1
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