1. Task Force on Crime Statistics
17-18 October 2006
Organised crime 1

2. Task Force on Crime Statistics 17-18 October 2006
Action Plan Point 5.4 : Measuring five types of serious and cross-border crime
a) Monitoring progress of ongoing study
b) Examination of relevance and quality of the results obtained
c) On corruption : Results (together with Eurobarometer study) to be discussed by JLS Expert Group
d) On other 4 crime types : Results to be discussed by JLS Expert Group
e) Examination of possibility of including these statistics in regular data collection or survey
f) Inclusion of data in Eurostat database 1

3. Task Force on Crime Statistics 17-18 October 2006
Recommendations in Transcrime report
1-13 Definitions
Harmonise definitions of crime types
14-21 Variables
Collect ‘background’ variables e.g. on offender/victim
22 Organisation
Centralised body for crime statistics
23 Data collection time
to homogenise between when reported/when investigated
24-26 Data collection criteria
offence as counting unit
principal offence rule
multiple offences count separately
offences by multiple persons count as one 1

4. Task Force on Crime Statistics 17-18 October 2006
Specific issues in Transcrime report
Missing information :
Nothing on Belgium, France, Ireland, Malta, Austria
No data (only definitions) on Bulgaria, Finland, UK, Italy
Which of the five crime types are most promising for data collection (and which least)?
Could the data series be continued?
Using sources identified in study
Or using better sources
Is there any possibility of centralising data collection on reporting, prosecution and sentencing ( = Recommendation 22)? 1