1. Crime Statistics in Hungary

2. The Hungarian Crime Statistical System
3+1-pillar system:
I. Administrative sources (3 pillars)
II. Victimological Survey

3. I. Administrative sources
A. Standard Police and Prosecutor Statistics
B. Persons with Definitive Sentence
C. Data Collection on Incarcerated People

4. A. Standard Police and Prosecutor Crime Statistics
Since 1964
Investigator authorities (The Police, The Board of Customs and Excise, The Border Guards, Prosecutors)
Data-sheets (criminal cases, perpetrators)
Scope of information (discovered publicly indicated criminal cases, perpetrators, offended party)

5. B. Persons with Definitive Sentence
Since 1900 (digitalised since 1990)
Data-sheets (adults, juvenile persons)
Scope of information: socio-demographic backround, legal procedure, information on crime, sentences)

6. C. Data Collection on Incarcerated People
Not cumulated (just on one specific day)
Scope of information: socio-demographic variables, committed crimes, prisoners’s status, duration of incarceration, information on employment

7. II. Victimological Survey
1. Antecendents
2. Comparability
3. Research
4. Questionnaires

8. II/1. Antecendents NCVS, European Union members
Hungarian antecendents (smaller sample or local researches)
United Nations – Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: meeting challenges the 21th century
Requirements of European Union

9. II/2. Comparability
NCVS, United Nations National Survey of Crime Trends
United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute- ICVS
Hungarian experiences

10. II/3. The Research June 2003 10.000 people
Method: face to face interview, questionnaire, personal questionning
The reference period (life-prevalence, last five years, last half a year, 2002)

11. II/4. Questionnaires The Main Questionnaire The Crime Block
The Self-filling Questionnaire