Defining and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures - Oapen

O. Data on EU Citizens
As an overarching issue, the project also aimed at collecting data on aliens stemming
from other EU countries on all levels of the criminal justice process. In all
tables that collected information on the rate of aliens among suspects, convicted
persons or prison population, both the trial and final questionnaire asked for data
on the sub-category “of which: EU citizens”.
Data evaluation of the final questionnaire showed that on all levels of the
criminal justice process data availability on EU citizens was very poor:
Table 1.2.2 (Number of females, minors and aliens among suspected offenders in 2006)
shows that, while 24 countries were able to provide data on the total of suspected
offenders for criminal offences total and 20 also provided data on aliens, only 10
countries were able to provide the number of EU citizens among aliens. The
situation for table 3.1.2 (Number of females, minors and aliens among convicted persons in
2006) was even worse: 31 countries reported the total, 15 the number of aliens
and only 7 the number of EU citizens among aliens.
In the corrections chapter, data on aliens was asked for in tables 4.1.1 (Prison
population [including pre-trial detainees]: stock), 4.1.2 (Prison population [including pre-trial
detainees]: flow) and 4.2 (Convicted prison population by offence on 1 September 2006). While
32 countries provided an amount for the total stock in table 4.1.1 and 26 provided
the number of aliens, only 11 were able to provide the number of aliens from
other EU countries. Also, 20 countries were able to provide the number of aliens