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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: Showcasing Global Research
Thu, September 12, 4:00 to 5:15pm, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, Floor: 1st floor, Room 2.14Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Abstract
The Research and Trend Analysis Branch of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime publishes around 40 studies each year. These range from Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessments to annual Flagship reports. This roundtable shares three different recent studies highlighting the breadth and depth of the methodologies used as well as the range of crime types researched - the 3rd National Corruption Survey in Nigeria, estimating the prevalence of trafficking in persons, and the third World Wildlife Crime Report. First UNODC partnered with the Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) to implement a corruption survey that covered 33,000 households in all of Nigeria’s 37 states and territories, focusing on people’s every-day experiences of bribery and other forms of corruption such as nepotism in employment and vote buying. Second, to support Member States in their effort to report on this Sustainable Development Goal indicator about trafficking in person, UNODC with several partners, has been developing methodological techniques to estimate prevalence of trafficking in persons. These includes specialized surveys, large scale surveys and the use of Multiple Systems Estimation, a statistical technique that permits estimation of the ‘hidden figure’ based on national data on trafficking victims from several different sources. Finally, The World Wildlife Crime Report is grounded in World WISE, a bespoke database combining several sources of official data and web scraped data to enable estimates of the illegal wildlife trade in numerous protected species. Overall, the discussion will illuminate the varied quantitative and qualitative methods employed across UNODC’s varied research mandates.