Daejeon (Republic of Korea) Virtual, 20 November – The “Second Webinar on Crime Statistics from a Gender Perspective was an interactive discussion for E-Learning course participants to directly engage the course lecturers from UNODC-KOSTAT Centre of Excellence (CoE) and United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP) for a question and answer session on the course content.
The webinar participants were representatives of ministries relevant to the course material, including National Statistics Offices, Ministries of Justice and Ministries of Gender Equality, representing 15 countries and 65 participants.
The webinar included presentations on the learning outcomes of the four modules. First, Mr. Matthew Harris-Williams, Researcher at the CoE, presented on the first three modules: the requirement for crime statistics; criminal acts, focusing on specific Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); and the criminal justice system, each from a gender perspective. Module three also contained an overview on how to implement a sample survey. The second presentation from Mr. Eunkoo Lee, Statistician at UNSIAP, introduced Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) and simulated SDG computation with Rstudio.
After each presentation, a question and answer session enabled the audience to ask questions. A diverse pool of questions included the impact of gender-related legislation on crime statistics, particularly when gender is culturally and legally not accepted in a country. Another key topic involved the methodological aspect of SDG 5.3.1 (Child Marriage) with specific reference to computation method.
The Spanish translation version of E-Learning course on “Crime Statistics from a Gender Perspective” will launch in early 2021, for participants in Latin America and the Caribbean.
