Abstract
As a result of the 2005 decision by Interpol to no longer collect and disseminate police crime data, the UN biennial crime survey is now the only source of publicly available police data for studying crime trends extending over many years and covering a wide range of crimes and countries. This article assesses the effect of this “and then there was one” phenomenon through an analysis and comparison of member nation responses to the UN and Interpol crime data surveys for the year 2002. The article takes advantage of having two data sets covering police-recorded crime to analyze the quality of the UN survey data and to suggest ways to improve it. Better UN data not only will provide the basis for more robust scholarly comparisons of crime across national borders but can also yield results to illuminate crime problems worldwide.
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