Trends in crime and violence in Papua New Guinea
Crime and violence are widely viewed as posing a considerable challenge to development in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The full scale of crime and violence in PNG is difficult to assess, given the scarcity of national-level studies and a distinct urban...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/05/19631144/trends-crime-violence-papua-new-guinea http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18971 |
| Summary: | Crime and violence are widely viewed as
posing a considerable challenge to development in Papua New
Guinea (PNG). The full scale of crime and violence in PNG is
difficult to assess, given the scarcity of national-level
studies and a distinct urban bias in the available studies.
Yet various commentators and surveys estimate that violence
victimization rates in PNG are among the highest in the
world. This briefing note presents some preliminary findings
regarding the prevalence of crime and violence in PNG. It
was prepared as part of a broader study to understand the
socioeconomic costs of crime and violence to businesses,
government agencies, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and
households in PNG. The different data sources reviewed and
the most significant challenges with the data available are
noted in Annex 1. The challenges in partial data and
questions concerning the methodology used for collecting and
collating some of the data sets and data integrity call for
some caution in interpreting the findings, in particular
making generalizations about the wide diversity of
provincial experiences on the basis of geographically
limited data sets. |
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