Revolutions in EU Crime Statistics: EULOCS - the EU level offence classification system
authors | Wendy De Bondt |
Gert Vermeulen | |
journal | Update in de Criminologie (ISSN: ) |
volume | 2010 |
issue | V Actualia strafrecht en criminologie |
section | Artikelen |
publicatie datum | 26 avril 2010 |
langue | English |
pagina | 473 |
abstract | Crime statistics are more than just a pile of numbers. Ever since the eighteenth century, it became clear that they are a vital source of information in the challenge to understand and fight crime. In recent decades, crime and the prevention thereof increasingly gained importance to governments who “set out to ‘manage’ crime”. Because more and more people got involved in crime statistics, we have experienced |