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Criminal Justice Statistics in the Netherlands

This article provides an overview of the Dutch criminal justice system, including its organization, characteristics, and statistical data. It explores the types of crimes, the role of prosecution, and the challenges in data collection and analysis. The article also discusses future developments, such as comprehensive victim surveys and linking police and court statistics with other social statistics.

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Criminal Justice Statistics in the Netherlands

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  1. Criminal Justice Statistics in the Netherlands Paul Smit WODC Ministry of Justice the Netherlands

  2. Criminal Justice Statistics • The Dutch Criminal Justice System • Organisation of the Dutch Statistics • Characteristics of the Dutch Statistics • Future Developments

  3. Types of Crime

  4. Types of Crime

  5. Types of Crime

  6. The Dutch Criminal Justice System • Separate Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Internal Affairs • 25 highly autonomous police regions • Prosecution plays central role • Only professional judges, no jury or lay judges

  7. Organisation of the Dutch Statistics • An independent and powerful Statistics Netherlands (CBS – Central Bureau of Statistics) was originally the only provider of statistics. • Computerized registration systems: more timely, detailed (and reliable?) data provided by ministries (and other organisations) themselves • Changing role CBS: • Surveys • Combining data from different areas

  8. Annual Face to Face 20 k sample Bi-annual Telephone 90 k sample

  9. Surveys Aggregate data Individual (case) data Each police region their own systems for registration !

  10. Detailed information on cases, offenders, criminal acts, convictions, sentences etc. Slightly less information as OMData, but now: Unique offenders! Detailed registration of prosecutor decisions and court cases by the prosecutor’s office

  11. Surveys Aggregate data Individual (case) data

  12. Characteristics of the Dutch Statistics • No link between police statistics and prosecution / court statistics • Counting units are complicated, in this regard voegingen (combining cases) is particularly problematic • Statistics are Criminal Code oriented: • Offence type can change • No link with crimes as seen by public (or policy makers) • Hardly any victim data

  13. Future Developments • One comprehensive Victim Survey • Extending OBJD with execution data • Linking Police and Court Statistics • Linking with the CBS “Social Statistical Dataset”

  14. Link with other social statistics

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