Defining and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures - Oapen

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Aims and Methodology of the Study
4) Additional questionnaire
Albania
Finland
Germany
Iceland
Poland
Switzerland
United Kingdom: England and Wales
Ukraine
Total: 8 countries, of which 4 EU, 1 potential candidate, 2 EFTA/EEA, 1 other
European country
The final questionnaires for Moldova, Romania and Slovenia were received after the
end of the project phase. Therefore, it was not possible to evaluate these questionnaires
for the AGIS report. They are also covered here; data on these countries
are included in the 4 th edition ESB. For Luxembourg the group was not able to
find a correspondent. Therefore, a questionnaire from Luxembourg was also not
received during the project phase.
For France, the definition parts of the questionnaire were only filled in during
the trial phase. Due to some differences between the trial and final questionnaires,
France is not included in the tables regarding the evaluation of definitions in the
final questionnaire. However, the French responses to questions on definitions can
be found in the trial parts. Regarding data availability, France was also considered
in the evaluation of the final questionnaire.
Since France and the Netherlands did not return the additional questionnaire,
their responses from the trial phase were evaluated instead, as far as possible.
Where this was not possible, data on France and the Netherlands are missing in the
tables.
The correspondent for Malta quit during the project phase. Time was too
short to find a substitute for him. For some other Council of Europe countries
the ESB group was unable to find a correspondent during the whole project phase
although the group made every effort to find persons willing and able to do the
task. This is true for Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Norway, TFYR Macedonia,
Montenegro and Serbia. Also, small countries (Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino)
were – like in all other ESB editions – not covered.
Data in this book are mainly presented as they were in the moment the project
report was sent to the European Commission (beginning of February 2009).
However, in some cases further validation after January 2009 brought some
changes in definitions or data availability. These changes have also been considered
for this publication. Therefore, results might differ in some cases from the
results in the (unpublished) original version of the AGIS report. All data have
been validated. However, there are some responses from national correspondents