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

2. 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, October 2006
Its mandate to help develop strategy for crime statistics
Task Force conclusions were reported to Directors of Social Statistics 1

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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