Statistics Netherlands

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Justice and crime statistics coordination and
comparability
Frits Huls

• Statistics Netherlands

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Issues and problems

• Victim crime surveys - national crime surveys
  - international crime surveys
• Traditional crime statistics - information
  from different organizations - different penal
  laws - different criminal law (justice)
  systems
• up to date overview of coordination -
  UNECE/UNODC activities - Eurostat taskforce

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Methodological problems

• IVCS gap between countries -
  methodological problems - content of
  the questionnaire
• Administrative data (registers)
• - definition of crimes
  - how and when recorded - quality
  of the dataNew types of crimes -
  political relevant but not statistically
  - how to operationalize

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Alternatives

• What is the goal of comparability?
• Criminality is a social fenomenon, therefor
  integrated in social statistics
• What are the costs for criminality expressed in
  of countriess GNP
• Statistics Netherlands is developing - safety
  accounts - safety satellite in the social
  statistical database