Evidence Based EU Criminal Policy Making: In Search of Matching Data

Bondt, Wendy De

doi:10.1007/s10610-013-9209-3

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“…It was argued that the EU as a legislator and policy maker is responsible to ensure that statistical information is available to be used as an evidence base for future legal and policy initiatives. The inability to provide comparable statistical information that was apparent from the study, points to an important gap in the EU criminal policy line and thus a short coming of the EU legislator and criminal policy maker (De Bondt, 2014).…”

Section: Obtaining Factual Information: Gap Analysis and Policy Evalumentioning

confidence: 87%

“…Evidence based policy making has been a buzz word for quite some time now and it has been argued elsewhere that the increased importance of evidence based policy making should be applauded (De Bondt, 2014). It is generally accepted that policy decisions based on systematically gathered and analysed evidence are more likely to produce better outcomes when compared to policy decisions based on the heat of the moment (Sutcliffe & Court, 2005).…”

Section: Introduction: Evidence Based Policy Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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SPOCs & surveys: A novel way of conducting comparative research into criminal justice systems

Bondt

2015

Crime Sci

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Background: Criminal justice researchers are increasingly confronted with research questions that require them to use 'foreign information' in their analyses. Though it is generally accepted that working with foreign information is challenging, several authors pointed to the lack of serious recent work on comparative methodology. Many researchers therefore avoid comparative research. Method: Based on a literature review and practical experience, the challenges of comparative criminal justice research are uncovered, the strenghts and weaknesses of existing methods identified and a novel method developped. Result: The so-called 'SPOCs & survey'-method consists of nominating a SPOC (short for a single point of contact) for the countries to be included in the comparative analysis and asking them to fill out a multiple choice based survey, complemented with free text fields and the option to request documents to be attached. To assess the merit of the method, the paper elaborates (1) on the different degrees to which the method can be integrated in various types of research and (2) the extent to which the method is better tailored than existing methods to successfully overcome the challenges of comparative research referred to in literature. Conclusion: Though the method depends on the access to knowledgeable SPOCs, the weakness is counterbalanced by the strengths of its swiftness, reliability and validity.

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Section: Obtaining Factual Information: Gap Analysis and Policy Evalumentioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Introduction: Evidence Based Policy Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

SPOCs & surveys: A novel way of conducting comparative research into criminal justice systems

Bondt

2015

Crime Sci

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“…Comparability is limited by the different legal definitions of different states (MacDonald, 2002;Bondt, 2014), including differences in offence categorisations (e.g. what is classed as a serious violent crime), sentence types (e.g.…”

Section: Cross-national Comparisonmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These statistics exclude any incidences which are either not reported to the police or not recorded by the police RMJ 25,3 (National Audit Office, 2012). Recorded crime rates do not necessarily reflect the "real" crime figure, but are more dominantly a representation of police activity (Bryman, 2012;Bondt, 2014). The share of unreported crimes will vary significantly and is crime-type dependent.…”

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Using crime data in academic research: issues of comparability and integrity

Ludwig

Marshall²

2015

Records Management Journal

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Purpose -Research into crime is reliant on data that is recorded and published by criminal justice agencies; data which is collected for other purposes. Considering the suitability of geocoded crime data for academic research purposes, this paper will demonstrate the difficulties faced regarding the availability, integrity and reliability of readily accessible criminal justice data. Design/methodology/approach -Data from two countries -England and Germany -were considered and set in a wider European Union (EU) context. Using the data received from requests made to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in England and openly published reports and data available from Germany, the authors provide a contextual picture of the availability and operability of data recorded by these agencies. Geocoded data that enable cross-national comparisons with respect to immigration, ethnicity and crime are particularly hard to locate, and conducting research using data (such as crime data) whose "integrity" is questionable in an academic environment becomes increasingly problematic. Findings -Analysing secondary data produced by a number of agencies are amplified due to the different methods of collection, management, retention and dissemination. It was found that even within England, the information provided by police forces varied greatly. Data in Germany were found to be more openly available and published electronically by a number of different criminal justice agencies; however, many of the issues apparent in English data regarding data integrity were also identified here. Originality/value -The need for good record-keeping and information sharing practices has taken on added significance in today's global environment. The better availability of comparable criminal justice data has the potential to provide academics with increased opportunities to develop an evidence base for policymaking.

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Gender-Egalitarianism and the Construction of Official Rape Rates

Concha

2023

Int Criminol

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Evidence Based EU Criminal Policy Making: In Search of Matching Data

Cited by 9 publications

References 31 publications

SPOCs & surveys: A novel way of conducting comparative research into criminal justice systems

SPOCs & surveys: A novel way of conducting comparative research into criminal justice systems

Using crime data in academic research: issues of comparability and integrity

Gender-Egalitarianism and the Construction of Official Rape Rates

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