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Overview of statistics on illicit trafficking in cultural property

This report provides an overview of statistics on illicit trafficking in cultural property and surveys conducted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. It covers the period from 2007 to 2008, including data from police, prosecution, courts, and prisons. The report is linked to the thematic debate of the Crime Commission and covers topics such as trafficking in persons, corruption, and sentencing and prisons.

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Overview of statistics on illicit trafficking in cultural property

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  1. Overview of statistics on illicit trafficking in cultural property Statistics and Surveys Section United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

  2. Eleventh United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems,covering the period 2007 - 2008 • Core questionnaire (police, prosecution, courts, prisons) • Modules: • Linked to the topic of the thematic debate of the Crime Commission (for the 19th Session in 2010: protection against illicit trafficking in cultural property) • Related to one of three major topics, on rotation every three years • Trafficking in persons • Corruption • Sentencing and prisons (for 2010: Trafficking in persons)

  3. CTS data on illicit trafficking in cultural property • Police statistics on number of offences and persons arrested (or somehow brought into formal contact with the police) • Court statistics on persons convicted on: • Illicit Trafficking (import, export of transfer) in Cultural Property • Theft of Cultural Property • Possession/handling of stolen Cultural Property • Unlawful excavation of Cultural Property

  4. Number of countries responding to the CTS

  5. Data on crimes related to illicit trafficking in cultural property received through the 11th CTS • Out of 50 responses received so far • 16 contained police data • 12 contained courts data • 8 contained both • On average, countries were able to reply to one-third of the police questions and one-quarter of the courts questions

  6. Frequency of responses: Police

  7. Frequency of responses: Police • The question which received more data was "Theft of Cultural Property, number of offences" (14 out of 16 responding countries) • "Illicit Trafficking (import, export of transfer) in Cultural Property, number of offences" (9 out of 16). • The lowest number of responding countries (4) was observed at questions on "Possession/handling of stolen Cultural Property" both as regards number of offences and persons brought into formal contact with the police.

  8. Frequency of responses: Courts

  9. Frequency of responses: Courts • 7 out of 12 countries provided data regarding persons convicted for "Illicit Trafficking (import, export of transfer) in Cultural Property" and "other", indicating that in many countries these crimes are dealt with under different legislation. • Only 3 countries were able to provide data on "Unlawful excavation of Cultural Property, Persons Convicted".

  10. Interpol statistics on theft of cultural property • Interpol has collected data on theft of cultural property for the year 2007 and has received 46 responses. • Only 9 countries responded to both Interpol and the CTS and only 2 countries reported the same figures to both Organizations. In all other cases the figures provided to the CTS were much lower than those provided to Interpol.

  11. Challenges in estimating the magnitude of the phenomenon Sum of offences reported by 9 countries replying to both Interpol and UNODC

  12. Trend in theft of cultural property in 9 countries reporting since 2003

  13. Thank you www.unodc.org

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