Defining and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures - Oapen

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Preface
ified sometimes – included in the 4 th edition ESB questionnaire. Thus, the 4 th
edition ESB is based on a questionnaire developed during this project. The ESB is
publicized parallel to this book (Aebi et al, European Sourcebook of Crime and
Criminal Justice Statistics, 4 th edition, 2010, The Hague: Boom).
The project would not have been possible without the generous funding by
the European Commission under the AGIS 2006 programme. We would like to
express our gratitude for this. We also owe gratitude to many researchers, statisticians
and officials across Europe. Without their invaluable contribution this
project would not have been possible. Above all, this is true for the members of
the ESB group, for our national correspondents, the project steering group members
and the observers taking part in our meetings, the conference and our discussions.
A complete list of project acknowledgments can be found at the beginning
of this book.
We would like to express our special thanks to Martin Killias for chairing all our
meetings and the conference, and for organizing the project meetings in Brigels,
Switzerland, and Orta San Giulio, Italy. We would also like to thank Marcelo F.
Aebi, Grace Kronicz Aebi, Julien Lhuillier and Christophe Zufferey (final questionnaire)
as well as Véronique Jaquier (other questionnaires) for data processing and database
management. We are grateful that Gordon Barclay organized the project meeting in
London and Bruno Aubusson de Cavarlay the meeting in Paris.
For the project conference, which the editors organized, we would like to
thank Beatrix Elsner for her assistance during that conference. We also extend our
gratitude towards the Gustav-Stresemann-Institut in Bonn for hosting us so perfectly.
Véronique Jaquier has our gratitude again, this time for participating in the
project management and coordination and for her role in the planning of all meetings
and the conference.
At our institute, several people were involved in the project. We are especially
grateful for the help of Beatrix Elsner, Nora Vick and Heike Amouei. For the typesetting
we thank Julian Alfänger and Tim Krause. The financial management lay in
the hands of Georg Lemmer and Marita Nsien of the Faculty of Law here at Göttingen
University, whom we would also like to thank.
Finally, we express our thanks to the editors of this publication series, who
made the publication of this book possible. Apart from Jörg-Martin Jehle, these are
Kai Ambos, Gunnar Duttge, and Uwe Murmann.
Göttingen, in May 2010 Jörg-Martin Jehle and Stefan Harrendorf