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This volume presents the proceedings of a landmark conference held at the Council of Europe examining three decades of crime and criminal justice statistics in Europe. Drawing together leading experts, it commemorates the publication of the sixth edition of the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics while exploring critical developments in measuring and understanding crime across Europe since the 1990s. The book addresses key methodological challenges in comparative criminology, analyzes major crime trends, and examines emerging issues like cybercrime and the impact of COVID-19 on criminal behavior. Through case studies from European countries, it demonstrates how statistical evidence can effectively inform policymaking. The volume also features insights from Eurostat, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, and the EU Fundamental Rights Agency on harmonizing crime statistics internationally. As an essential read for criminologists, statisticians, policy makers, and criminal justice practitioners, this book provides crucial insights into the evolution of crime measurement in Europe while highlighting future challenges and opportunities in producing comparable criminal justice statistics across jurisdictions.

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Marcelo F. Aebi, PhD, is Full Professor of Criminology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is Executive Secretary of the European Society of Criminology and, as a consultant expert for the Council of Europe, he is responsible of the Council Annual Penal Statistics (SPACE). He leads the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics Group and has published extensively on comparative criminology, crime trends, prison and probation studies, crime measurement and juvenile delinquency. Lorena Molnar, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne specializing in comparative criminology and victimology, focusing on vulnerable populations such as sex workers, people experiencing homelessness, ethnic minorities, children and people with disabilities. She has also worked as a social worker and as a scientific fellow at the Applied University of Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland.

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1 Session 1: European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics; 2 Session 2: Validity, reliability and comparability of criminal justice data; 3 Session 3: Crime, trends and their interpretation; 4 Session 4: Criminology and policy-making

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