International Classification of Crimes for Statistical Purposes
Annotation
This publication has been translated from the original International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in March 2015. The classification aims at a transnational harmonization of rules and therefore the principle of behavioural specification is applied for the classification of the different categories of crimes (as opposed to strict definitions of crimes in the different criminal law systems). In addition, this proposal, which aims for uniformity in the classification of criminal offences, deals with other elements such as intentionality or the status of the victim. In this classification of offences, eleven main categories of offences are worked with, working with the so-called hierarchical subdivisions into three further levels. A complementary tool in this system is a series of descriptors that allow for the complete identification of a specific criminal act and its correct assignment to the appropriate ICCS category. Other disaggregating variables allow to record, among others, details of the offence, e.g. situational or geographical context, motive, whistleblower, connection to cybercrime, etc.
Authors
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
ISBN
978-80-7338-167-7
Edition
Editorial Series PRAMENY
Year of publication
2017