Mandate of the Working Group Working group, statistics on crime and criminal justice, 1-2 March 2007 Mandate of the Working Group 1

Task Force on crime statistics Working group, statistics on crime and criminal justice, 1-2 March 2007 Task Force on crime statistics Met 31 May-1 June 2005, 2-3 March 2006, 17-18 October 2006 Its mandate to help develop strategy for crime statistics Task Force conclusions were reported to Directors of Social Statistics 1

Areas which were discussed by the Task Force on crime statistics Working group, statistics on crime and criminal justice, 1-2 March 2007 Areas which were discussed by the Task Force on crime statistics An initial data collection based on a limited number of variables available Development of a module on victimisation ‘New’ types of crime (such as Internet fraud, identity theft, trafficking in human beings, trafficking in cultural goods, corruption, hate crimes, etc) 1

Expert Group and Working Group Working group, statistics on crime and criminal justice, 1-2 March 2007 Expert Group and Working Group DG JLS Expert Group ‘Users’ of statistics Brussels, 2-3 April 2007 List of participants on CIRCA Eurostat Working Group ‘Producers’ of statistics Luxembourg, 1-2 March 2007 List of participants will be put on CIRCA 1

Proposed Mandate of this Working Group Working group, statistics on crime and criminal justice, 1-2 March 2007 Proposed Mandate of this Working Group To help ensure the effective implementation within the Community Statistical Programme of the EU Action Plan on developing a comprehensive and coherent strategy to measure crime and criminal justice by co-ordinating the contribution of the national statistical authorities within the European Statistical System to the various activities included in the Action Plan To examine the indicators and tools proposed by the Expert Group on the policy needs for data on crime and criminal justice, and to identify approaches for statistical data collections required to provide indicators and tools under the Action Plan To discuss guidelines and implement the collection of statistical data required to provide the agreed indicators and tools 1

Working group, statistics on crime and criminal justice, 1-2 March 2007 To report to the Directors of Social Statistics on the implementation of the Action Plan, including evaluating the progress made and making recommendations for future actions To identify specific tasks within the European Statistical System relevant to the Action Plan for delegation to task forces, and to propose the mandates and members of such task forces To serve as a forum of information within the European Statistical System concerning relevant statistical research and development activities or results in the area of crime and criminal justice statistics to be taken into account in the implementation of the Action Plan 1