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EAST IS EAST, AND WEST IS WEST modelled after the International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS)". Unfortunately, draft legislation for such survey, named the EU Safety Survey (SASU), prepared by Eurostat in consultation with a group of European criminologists and statisticians, and duly pilot tested in several member states, was vetoed by the European Parliament in 2014 at the advice of a conservative party British EMP who inter alia argued, rather illogically, that no European survey was needed since the British Crime Survey (BCS) sufficed. On the positive side, Gallup International has since 2005 included two rough items on experiences with crime in its annual World Poll®. These two items were: “Within the past twelve months, have you had money or property stolen from you or another household member (household theft) and “Within the past 12 months, have you been assaulted or mugged”? (Assault and street robbery). Although these two, partly overlapping, items fail to meet the international standards of a fullfledged victimization survey, the Gallup Poll is unprecedented in its coverage (160 countries worldwide) and periodicity (samples of one 1.000 per year per country). Within Europe alone half a million of persons have so far been interviewed. Encouragingly, the combined rates of the two items were found to be fairly strongly correlated to the overall victimization rates of ten different types of crime of the ICVS in the 70 countries where both surveys had been conducted in recent years (P coefficient = + .62; n= 69)’. A second type of validated statistics on crime are the numbers of standardised homicide cases as collected by international organizations such as UNODC and WHO. As our source, we have taken the Global Study on Homicide of UNODC which covers the largest number of countries for the full period 2006-2019.° Finally, we have constructed a three-item composite index measuring the extent of organised crime and corruption in a country which includes the item on experiences with racketeering and extortion of business executives from the Business Executives Surveys annually commissioned by the Davos World Economic Forum’. The other two items measure the extent of grand corruption as measured by GWP and Transparency International’. This index, modelled 5 Van Dijk, The world of crime. 6° Gallup, Gallup World Poll Methodology, 2020, www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/ess/voh/ Gallup world poll methodology.pdf. Jan Van Dijk — Paul Nieuwbeerta — Jacqueline Joudo Larssen, Global crime patterns: an analysis of survey data from 166 countries around the world, 2006-2019, Journal of Quantitative Criminology (2021). 8 UNODC, Global Study on Homicide, Vienna, UNODC, 2019. ° WEF (World Economic Forum), Executive Opinion Survey, Geneva, World Economic Forum, 2020. Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2015: Data and Methodology, 2015, https://www.transparency.org/cpi2015. + 117 «
