1. Task Force on Crime Statistics
17-18 October 2006
Request for 2005 data 1

2. Task Force on Crime Statistics 17-18 October 2006
Short-term activities
Publish available data & metadata
By end 2006
Eurostat website
Statistics in Focus
Extend data & metadata to reference year 2005
Start Jan. 2007
Update Eurostat website
Possible new Statistics in Focus 1

3. Task Force on Crime Statistics 17-18 October 2006
Medium-term activities
DG JLS Expert Group to define indicators etc. Early 2007
(see Action Plan 1.2, 4.1)
Eurostat Working Group to implement indicators etc. March 2007
(see Action Plan 4.2, 4.3)
Definitions of crime types, enforcement measures etc. Ongoing
(see Action Plan 3.1)
Co-ordination with other organisations/collections Ongoing
(see Action Plan 2.1, 2.2, 2.3) 1

4. Task Force on Crime Statistics 17-18 October 2006
Medium-term : Possible changes to list of variables (for discussion working group)
Violent crime
Violence against person ( rename ‘assault’ as in UNODC and Sourcebook)
Robbery (= ‘robbery’ in UNODC and Sourcebook and Eurostat)
Sexual offences
rape (= ‘rape’ in UNODC and Sourcebook)
other sexual offences
Theft, total (new, = as in UNODC and Sourcebook)
Theft of a motor vehicle
Burglary
Domestic burglary
Drug offences (new = as in Sourcebook)
Drug trafficking
Other drug-related offences (possession etc. as in UNODC and Sourcebook) 1

5. Task Force on Crime Statistics 17-18 October 2006
Longer term :
Other possible changes to list of variables
Prison figures
See Action Plan 2.3 ‘investigate possibilities for co-ordination of penal statistics with Council of Europe’
5.2 ‘inclusion of background information on nationality and residency for prison populations’
‘Organised’ (‘transnational’ or ‘serious’) crime
Definition to be discussed by the Expert Group 1