ISBN: 978-3-941875-53-1 ISSN: 1864-2136 The study presented in this book is a direct response to the needs for dening and registering criminal and judicial data on the European level. Based upon work done in creating the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics (ESB), the project results will improve and complement the standards developed so far for denitions and statistical registration in four elds (police, prosecution, courts, prison), in order to contribute to the picture of criminal justice in Europe. Possibilities to optimize the offence denitions used so far in the ESB context were explored. Also, further crime types, especially those sub- ject to EU-harmonized denition, were tested and introduced. Apart from this, the prosecution chapter of the ESB questionnaire was changed and expanded. Data collection possibilities regarding compulsory measures in the investigatory stage were tested, and a more sophisticated approach for recording sanctions and measures as well as prison data was developed. The study explored how far national statistics can provide such data and developed a concept for collation on European level. It was funded by the European Commission under the AGIS 2006 program. Jörg-Martin Jehle / Stefan Harrendorf (eds.) Dening and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures Standards for a European Comparison Göttingen Studies in Criminal Law and Justice Göttingen Studies in Criminal Law and Justice Vol. 10 Jehle and Harrendorf (eds.) Dening and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures Universitätsverlag Göttingen Universitätsverlag Göttingen AGIS 2006 Jörg-Martin Jehle and Stefan Harrendorf (Eds.) Defining and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License 3.0 “by-nd”, allowing you to download, distribute and print the document in a few copies for private or educational use, given that the document stays unchanged and the creator is mentioned. You are not allowed to sell copies of the free version. Published als Volume 10 of the series „Göttingen Studies in Criminal Law and Justice“ by Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2010 erschienen als Band 10 in der Reihe „Göttinger Studien zu den Kriminalwissenschaften“ im Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2010 Jörg-Martin Jehle and Stefan Harrendorf (eds.) Defining and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures Standards for a European Comparison By Marcelo F. Aebi, Bruno Aubusson de Cavarlay, Gordon Barclay, Beata Gruszczyńska, Stefan Harrendorf, Markku Heiskanen, Vasilika Hysi, Véronique Jaquier, Jörg-Martin Jehle, Martin Killias, Chris Lewis, Giulia Mugellini, Ernesto U. Savona, Olena Shostko, Paul Smit, and Rannveig Þorisdottir Göttingen Studies in Criminal Law and Justice Volume 10 Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2010 Bibliographische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliographie; detaillierte bibliographische Daten sind im Internet über <http://dnb.ddb.de> abrufbar. Editors of the Series Institute of Criminal Law and Justice Faculty of Law, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Profs. Drs. Kai Ambos, Gunnar Duttge, Jörg-Martin Jehle, Uwe Murmann AGIS 2006 With financial support from the AGIS Programme European Commission - Directorate-General Justice, Freedom And Security This work is protected by German Intellectual Property Right Law. It is also available as an Open Access version through the publisher’s homepage and the Online Catalogue of the State and University Library of Goettingen (http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de). Users of the free online version are invited to read, download and distribute it. Users may also print a small number for educational or private use. However they may not sell print versions of the online book. Cover design: Kilian Klapp © 2010 Universitätsverlag Göttingen http://univerlag.uni-goettingen.de ISBN: 978-3-941875-53-1 ISSN: 1864-2136 Project Acknowledgments This book has been based on the Final Report to the European Commission for t he JLS/2006/AGIS/134 project “Standards for Defining and Registering Crime Types, Public Prosecution Service Disposals, Court Sentences and Improving Correction Statistics”. The project would not have been possible without the ge- nerous funding by the European Commission under the AGIS 2006 pro- gramme. The beneficiary of the grant agreement, Jörg-Martin Jehle, and the project partners Marcelo F. Aebi, Bruno Aubusson de Cavarlay, Gordon Barclay, Beata Gruszczyńska, Markku Heiskanen, Vasilika Hysi, Martin Killias, Paul Smit, and Rannveig Þorisdottir would like to express their gratitude for this funding. The study and this publication would also not have been possible without the work and assistance by many researchers, statisticians and officials across Europe. The authors and editors are grateful for their invaluable contribution to this project. Especially, we owe gratitude to our national correspondents, to the project steering group members and the observers taking part in our meetings, the conference and our discussions. The questionnaire developed by the European Sourcebook group has been dis- cussed with and answered by the following national correspondents: Albania: Vasilika Hysi, University of Tirana (also group member) Armenia: Anna Margaryan, Yerevan State University Project Acknowledgments VI Austria: Katharina Beclin and Carlotta Pirnat, University of Vienna; Gerhard Ha- nak, Institut für Rechts- und Kriminalsoziologie, Vienna Belgium: Charlotte Vanneste, Institut National de Criminalistique et de Criminolo- gie, Brussels Bulgaria: Tsveta Docheva, Crime Prevention Department, Sofia Croatia: Ksenija Turkovic, University of Zagreb Cyprus: Georgia Ioannou, Statistical Service of Cyprus, Nicosia Czech Republic: Simona Dibilikova, Institute for Criminology and Social Prevention, Prague Denmark: Britta Kyvsgaard, Ministry of Justice, Copenhagen Estonia: Andri Ahven, Ministry of Justice, Tallinn Finland: Markku Heiskanen, HEUNI, Helsinki (also group member) France: Bruno Aubusson de Cavarlay, CESDIP-CNRS, Ministère de la Justice, Guyancourt (also group member) Georgia: Georgi Glonti, Institute of State and Law, Tbilisi Germany: Stefan Harrendorf and Jörg-Martin Jehle, University of Göttingen (also group members) Greece: Calliope Spinellis, Maria Galanou and George Papanicolaou, University of Athens Hungary: Tibor Nagy, Prosecution Service of the Republic of Hungary, Budapest Iceland: Rannveig Þorisdottir, National Commissioner of Police, Reykjavik (also group member) Ireland: Timothy Linehan, Crime and Criminal Justice, Central Statistics Office, Cork Italy: Uberto Gatti and Giovanni Fossa, University of Genoa Latvia: Andrejs Vilks, University of Latvia, Riga; Baiba Zukula and Ilvija Vītola, Latvijas Statistika, Riga Lithuania: Algimantas Cepas, Svetlana Justickaja and Gintautas Sakalauskas, Law Institute of Lithuania, Vilnius Moldova: Natalia Delgrande, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Netherlands: Paul Smit, WODC, Ministry of Justice, The Hague (also group mem- ber) Poland: Beata Gruszczyńska, University of Warsaw (also group member) Portugal: Maria João Morgado Costa, Direcção-Geral da Politíca de Justiça, Lisbon Romania: Emillian Stanisore, University of Bucharest Russian Federation: Alexander Salagaev and Rustem Safin, Kazan State Technologi- cal University Slovakia: Eugen Placintar, Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava Slovenia: Miran Mitar, University of Maribor Spain: Marcelo F. Aebi, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (also group member) Sweden: Arletta Plunkett, The National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå), Stock- holm Project Acknowledgments VII Switzerland: Daniel Fink, Office Fédéral de la Statistique, Neuchâtel; Martin Killias, University of Zürich (also group member), Véronique Jaquier, University of Lausanne (also group member) Turkey: Galma Jahic, University of Istanbul Ukraine: Olena Shostko, Yaroslav Mudry National Law Academy, Kharkiv (also group member) UK: England & Wales: Gordon Barclay, Home Office, London (also group mem- ber) UK: Northern Ireland: Richard Erskine, Statistics and Research Branch, Northern Ireland Office, Belfast; Tony Mathewson, Central Statistics Unit, Police Ser- vice of Northern Ireland, Belfast UK: Scotland: Sandra Campbell, Justice and Communities Directorate, Scottish Government, Edinburgh A steering group has overseen the project meetings and conference and took part in all discussions. Its members were: Hans-Jürgen Kerner, University of Tübingen, Germany Chris Lewis, University of Portsmouth, UK Ernesto Savona, TRANSCRIME, University of Milan, Italy Cynthia Tavares, Eurostat, Luxembourg The following observers also attended group meetings and the conference, were involved in discussions related to the project and gave helpful advice: Anna Alvazzi del Frate, UNODC, Vienna, Austria Kauko Aromaa, HEUNI, Helsinki, Finland Giulia Muggelini, TRANSCRIME, University of Milan, Italy [...]... groups and subgroups were covered 5 Response rates and data quality The project covers the following countries: 1) Trial Questionnaire: Albania Finland France Germany Iceland Netherlands Poland Switzerland United Kingdom: England and Wales Total: 9 countries, of which 6 EU, 1 potential candidate, 2 EFTA/EEA 2) Subsidiary Questionnaire Albania Finland France Germany Iceland Netherlands Poland Switzerland... Slovakia Slovenia Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom: England and Wales United Kingdom: Northern Ireland United Kingdom: Scotland Ukraine Total: 35 countries, of which 26 EU, 2 candidate, 1 potential candidate, 2 EFTA/EEA, 4 other European countries; concerning the United Kingdom, there are separate questionnaires for England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland 16 Aims and Methodology of the Study... definitions for criminal offences total, bodily injury (assault), rape and other sexual offences, and drug offences In addition to this, new offence definitions for fraud, offences against the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer data and systems, money laundering and corruption were introduced All these improved and newly introduced offence definitions were tested and were – sometimes... included England and Wales, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden.19 The second wave was an expanded follow-up of the initial study It worked with methodical instruments refined on the basis of experience gained from the first wave and covered those countries once more and additionally included Croatia, Hungary, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey.20 The project partners were criminal justice... new subgroups (minor property offences handled outside the criminal justice system, minor violent offences handled outside the criminal justice system, minor bodily injury, bodily injury of a public servant, domestic violence, minor theft handled outside the criminal justice system) were not included (for an explanation, see the following chapters on criminal offences total and bodily injury) Therefore,... 129 G Computer Offences 131 1 First steps and development of draft definitions and questions 131 2 Trial and subsidiary questionnaires and evaluation 132 3 Final questionnaire and evaluation 136 4 Additional questionnaire and evaluation 140 5 Conclusion 142 H Money Laundering 143 1 First steps and development of draft definitions and questions 143 2 Trial and subsidiary questionnaire and evaluation... defining and registering criminal and judicial data on the European level Based upon work done by the European Sourcebook experts group in creating the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics (ESB), the project intended to improve and complement the standards developed so far for definitions and statistical registration in four fields, in order to contribute to the picture of criminal. .. draft definitions and questions 86 3 Trial questionnaire and evaluation 86 4 Final questionnaire and evaluation 91 5 Additional questionnaire and evaluation 100 6 Conclusions 103 F Fraud 105 1 First steps and development of draft definitions and questions 105 2 Trial and subsidiary questionnaires and evaluation 106 3 Final questionnaire and evaluation 124 4 Additional questionnaire and evaluation 128... steps and development of draft definitions and questions 34 3 Trial and subsidiary questionnaires and evaluation 34 4 Final questionnaire and evaluation 45 5 Additional questionnaire and evaluation 51 6 Conclusion 52 D Rape and Other Sexual Offences 55 1 Previous definition 55 2 First steps and development of draft definitions and questions 56 3 Trial questionnaire and evaluation 56 3.1 Offence definitions... LEWIS for England and Wales, Bruno AUBUSSON DE CAVARLAY for France, Paul SMIT and Martine BLOM (first wave only) for the Netherlands, Beata GRUSZCZYŃSKA, Teodor BULENDA, Andrzej KREMPLEWSKI (all first wave only) and Piotr SOBOTA for Poland, Josef ZILA for Sweden, the German project management and research team consisting of Beatrix ELSNER, Jörg-Martin JEHLE, Julia PETERS and Marianne WADE and - joining . (eds.) Dening and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures Standards for a European Comparison Göttingen Studies in Criminal Law and Justice Göttingen Studies in Criminal Law and Justice. Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2010 Jörg-Martin Jehle and Stefan Harrendorf (eds.) Defining and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures Standards for a European Comparison By Marcelo. Harrendorf (Eds.) Defining and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License 3.0 “by-nd”, allowing you to download, distribute and print the