Yearly Police Statistics Report 1999

Abstract

Since 1999, the National Directorate of Criminal Policy (DNPC) of Argentina has been working on the development of a National Crime Information System (SNIC is its Spanishacronym), a program aimed at gathering, producing and analyzing statistical crime data in Argentina. The program aspires to take up the complex task of measuring crime as asocial construction and to process data from various registration sources – both officialand unofficial. SNIC’s objective is to centralize statistics from the police, courts,corrections and victimization surveys to address all the pictures of crime produced bydiverse official statistics.