NCJ Number
248383
Date Published
2014
Length
413 pages
Annotation
This is the fifth edition of a data collection initiative that started in 1993 under the umbrella of the Council of Europe, prepared by an international group of experts (European Sourcebook of Criminal Justice e.V.2).
Abstract
The work collects and validates data on a variety of crime and criminal justice subjects from 41 countries. New categories for the collection of data on community sanctions and measures and probation agencies are introduced with the support of the Confederation of European Probation (CEP). In addition, a new chapter on victimization surveys is included for the first time and refers to national studies, as no recent international survey was available. The document covers the years 2007 to 2011 for police, prosecution, conviction and prison statistics, with detailed analyses for 2010. The basic structure of five chapters - offences and offenders known to the police, prosecution, convictions and sentences, prison and survey data - has been extended by introducing a separate chapter on the work of probation agencies and the implementation of community sanctions and measures. All data in that new chapter refer to 2010. Furthermore, more detailed data on community sanctions and measures connected with prosecutorial decisions or orders by the court were introduced in chapter 2 and 3 respectively. Moreover, all chapters were revised and partly enlarged in various respects. For example, offence definitions were further developed and improved, while keeping as far as possible comparability with previous editions of the Sourcebook: i.e, major traffic offences and sexual assault, while a breakdown for offences involving a firearm was included in the case of homicide and robbery. The chapters on prosecution and convictions include more detailed information on minors. Finally, chapter 6 presents survey data from national crime victimisation surveys conducted between 1990 and 2010. (Publisher abstract modified)