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International classification of crimes
The International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), proposed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), aims to provide a comprehensive framework for the production of statistics on crime and criminal justice. The basic unit of classification is the event that constitutes a criminal offence, and the description of the act is based on behaviour rather than on the legal provisions in force in individual States.
Within the Quality Circle of the Sistan (National Statistical System) on justice and security, institutions and agencies that produce and/or process criminal justice data have established a working group (The partners) to implement the ICCS. The group has developed transcoding tables that allow individual elements of the Catalogue of Criminal Offences constituting felonies or misdemeanours to be directly linked to the international ICCS classification.
The group is responsible for validating updates to the Catalogue of Criminal Offences in line with new Italian legislation and, at the same time, for implementing the corresponding mappings within the ICCS.