Crime Data
Crime Data and Indicators
The Justice in Mexico Project serves as a resource for academics, policy makers, non-governmental organizations, and other interested parties by providing access to existing data and statistics on multiple aspects of Mexico’s criminal justice system; in particular, on crime, victimization and criminal behavior.
Indicators on crime and delinquency are notoriously fraught with problems, particularly in Mexico. Government figures are often unrepresentative of the total number of crimes committed. This is can be due to inadequate record-keeping or even political manipulation of statistics by authorities. Under-reporting by victims who may be unwilling or afraid to report to authorities for a variety of reasons also limits the reliability of such figures.
Nonetheless, the rise of crime as an urgent public policy priority is substantiated by government figures and an increasing pool of other indicators developed by international and domestic non-governmental organizations, as well as surveys that account for victimization and perceptions of crime. The links below provide access to a variety of indicators about crime, including data made available by partner institutions and participants of this project.
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Public Security in Mexico: Statistics and Analysis
This site presents Arturo Arango’s Interactive Diagnostic Statistics Database: An interactive database of contemporary crime indicators (1980s-present), with geographic information system applications, compiled by Arturo Arango and Cristina Lara.
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Crime Victimization Survey (2002), conducted by Pablo Parás: For detailed information about this and other surveys, please visit the Latin American Bank of Surveys (BELA)
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Other Relevant Sources
National Survey on Public Safety, conducted by the Citizen’s Institute on Public Safety Studies (Instituto Ciudadano de Estudios sobre la Inseguridad, ICESI)
http://icesi.org.mx/estadisticas/estadisticas_encuestasNacionales.asp
First National Survey on Discrimination in Mexico conducted by the Mexican Ministry for Social Development (Secretaría de Desarrollo Social, SEDESOL)
www.sedesol.gob.mx/subsecretarias/prospectiva/subse_discriminacion.htm
Mexican Institute of Geography and Statistics (Instituto Nacional de Geografía e Informática)
www.inegi.gob.mx
