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Organization of the Sourcebook project
Welcome to the home page of the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics
What is the
European Sourcebook?
The first European Sourcebook project started in 1996. In that year the Council
of Europe established a committee to prepare a compendium of crime and criminal
justice data for its member states. Information was collected from 36 European
countries covering the period 1990 to 1996. It included both statistical data
and information on the statistical rules and the definitions behind these
figures. This resulted in the publication by the Council of Europe of the
Sourcebook in 1999, now also available on-line.
Also a 'Key Findings' bulletin
was published in 2000 and an issue of the European Journal on Criminal Policy
and Research was mainly devoted on some results of the Sourcebook data.
The second edition:
A second European Sourcebook project sponsored by the Switzerland, United Kingdom
and the Netherlands governments has been completed and the findings have been
published in december 2003 by the Dutch WODC in their publications series
(nr. 212). The publication reports on criminal justice data for 40 European
countries covering the period 1995 - 2000. The publication is available in
pdf format. Also, the original data as sent by all countries is available in MSWord.
The third edition:
The fourth edition:
Contents of the Sourcebook First edition
In June 2006 the third edition was published, again by the WODC (nr. 241). This edition
is a limited edition: not all tables were updated. It covers the years 2000 - 2003 for
37 countries. As with the second edition, the publication (in pdf format) and the
original data (in MSWord) can be found on this website.
The fourth edition, covering the years 2003 - 2007, has been published in 2010. This is a full edition,
with also some new crime types added. The full edition in pdf can be found here.
The second edition:
Publications pdf
original data
The third edition:
Publications pdf
original data
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Organization of the Sourcebook project