European Statistics of Crime
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European source book of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics, number of convicted persons, prison population, dark number of criminality, EuropeAbstract
To make good, scientifically based criminological research, it is necessary to have good statistical data. Because of that, the Council of Europe established in 1996 the first project named European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics. That project was continued in 2000 and 2003. The results of that research can be found online, and they could be used to make some comparisons, even though there are no data from Serbia, because Serbia and Montenegro were not members of the Council of Europe at that time. Results from Serbia are expected to be analysed and presented in the project that was held in the period from 2003 up to 2007. Anyway, in those projects there are analyzed data about the number of convicted people for different crimes, the number of policemen in every country, the number of the prison population and some other data. The author presents some of those results and tries to make his own conclusion about different issues, about the state of criminality in Europe, about the efficiency of the police and judicial system, about the dark number of criminality, about the possible corruption in each country, etc. Ćirić says that everyone could come to different conclusions if he uses those statistical data, but what is most important is to have in mind those data and to improve the system of statistical analysis in Serbia.
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