Governments, their international development partners, and civil society around the world are trying to produce reliable systems for capturing data on public safety and justice. For many criminal justice agencies in the developing world, however, the financial resources and technical expertise required to implement faster, technologically complex data management systems are often not available.

In this video, Jason Wilks draws on PCJ’s previous work in Jamaica during the Indicators in Development: Safety and Justice project to propose strategies for using existing data and data management capacity to support criminal justice reform efforts in developing states.

Watch the video on YouTube.

• For a detailed account of how existing data and data management capacity used in creating the ‘hit rate’ indicator in Jamaica, read Pitfalls in the Design of New Indicators of Police Performance: Lessons from Jamaica about Research, Operations, and Measurement in Police Reform
• PCJ Toolkit, a self-directed guide to indicator development in justice and safety.
• Watch more videos in Developing Governance Indicators in Justice and Safety: A Country-Led Approach video series.