First Regional Workshop

On the Strengtheningof Justice and Home Affairs StatisticsIn the Western Balkans

Skopje, 12th – 14th May2010

Agenda

Tuesday, 11th May
Afternoon / Arrival of participants
18:30 – 20:00 / Welcome Reception hosted by the Ministry of Justice of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia / Working meeting for UNODC/partners/FPs
Wednesday, 12th May / Main Session/Plenary / Parallel Sessions
8:30 – 9:00 / Registration
9:00 – 9:15 / Welcome Remarks and Opening of Workshop by Mr. Mihailo Manevski, Minister of Justice and Mr. Patrick Paquet, First Secretary of EU Delegation
9:15 – 9:45 / Presentation of Regional Projectby Ms. Carla Ciavarella, Regional Programme Coordinator, UNODC and Mr. Michael Jandl, Research Expert, UNODC
9:45 – 10:30 / Introduction to International and EU Standards on Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics (Mr. Kauko Aromaa, HEUNI) and on Migration and Asylum Statistics (Mr. David Reichel, ICMPD)
10:30 – 10:45 / Coffee break
10:45 – 12:30 / Interactive Discussion of Technical Assessment Reports: Common Problems and Challenges in Crime and Criminal Justice Data Collection (Mr. Ernesto Savona, Transcrime)
12:30 – 14:00 / Lunch
14:00 – 14:15 / Introduction to Working Groups of Day 1
14:15 – 15:30 / Parallel Working Groups on current Gaps and Needs of Data Collection: Selected Topics and Case Studies:
WG A: Police (UNODC)
WG B: Prosecution and Courts (Transcrime)
WG C: Migration/Asylum/Visa (ICMPD, E, with FPs)
WG D: National Statistical Offices (in E, with FPs) / ASG meeting
15:30 – 15:45 / Coffee break (flexible timing)
15:45 – 17:00 / Parallel Working Groups (WG A to D) continued
Thursday, 13th May / Main Session/Plenary / Parallel Sessions
9:00 – 9:40 / Report of Working Groups (WG A to D) to Plenum
9:40 – 10:00 / Introduction to Working Groups of Day 2
10:00 – 10:15 / Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:30 / Parallel Working Groups on training needs and training priorities by project country/territory:
WG 1 to WG 7 moderated by ASG members (assisted byFPs) / 7 Parallel Working Groups
12:30 – 13:30 / Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 / Parallel Working Groups (WG 1 to 7) continued
14:30 – 15:00 / Report of Working Groups to Plenum (by FPs)
15:00 – 15:15 / Coffee break
15:15 – 16:30 / Special Session on NSOs, ongoing corruption surveys and Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics
Friday, 14th May / Main Session/Plenary / Parallel Sessions
9:00 – 10:30 / Discussion of Regional Indicators: Priority Indicators and Current and Future Capacities for Measurement / WG on Migration Indicators (ICMPD)
10:30 - 11:00 / Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 / Summary, Conclusions and the Way Forward
12:30 – 14:00 / Lunch / Working lunch for UNODC/partners/FPs
Afternoon / Departure of participants

Translation into/from Albanian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian/Montenegrin and Macedonian will be provided in Plenary Sessions. Limited translation will be provided by interpreters and/or UNODCfocal points (FPs)in theworking groups (WGs).

Possible list of Regional Indicators

The following set of indicators are suggested for consideration by the representatives and experts at the 1st Regional Workshop:

  1. Number of crimes reported, by offence type
  2. Number of persons reported/prosecuted/convicted, by offence type and the possibilities to calculate ‘Attrition rates’, by offence type
  3. Profile of persons reported/prosecuted/convicted, by offence type and according to the age[1], sex, citizenship, ethnicity (?) of offenders and whether recidivist or not
  4. Number of victims of crime reported, by offence type and according to age, sex, citizenship, ethnicity (?)
  5. Type and length of sentences, by offence type
  6. Number of children sentenced to detention by a competent authority[2]
  7. Length of trials from prosecution to conviction
  8. Number of reported migrant smugglers and smuggled migrants, by citizenship[3]
  9. Corruption-related indicators (experience and perception indicators)according to corruption surveys
  10. Victimization rates (prevalence rates) by crime typeaccording to crime surveys
  11. Share of crimes reported and un-reported according to crime surveys

The following offence types are considered as core crimes to be covered in the 12th United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS) by the end of 2010 (offence types requested by Eurostat data collection denoted by ‘E’)[4]:

  1. Intentional Homicide (E)
  2. Violent Crime (E)
  3. Assault
  4. Sexual Violence
  5. Rape
  6. Robbery (E)
  7. Property Crime
  8. Theft
  9. Motor Vehicle Theft (E)
  10. Burglary
  11. Domestic Burglary/Housebreaking (E)
  12. Drug Possession/Use
  13. Drug Trafficking (E)
  14. Kidnapping for Ransom

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[1] Using the age profile of persons reported/suspected of criminal acts, it should be possible to calculate concrete Juvenile Justice indicators such as the ‘Number of children in conflict with the law’ (Juvenile Justice Indicator 1)

[2] From the age profile of persons sentenced to detention is should be possible to calculate Juvenile Justice Indicator 9 (‘Percentage of children sentenced to a custodial sentence/detention/deprivation of liberty as a percentage of all children sentenced’)

[3] For the Eurostat data collection on the prevention of illegal migration (CIREFI database), Member States have to report data on the number of apprehended facilitators by citizenship and the number of apprehended facilitated aliens (by citizenship; and type of border entered: land, sea or air).

[4] In addition to data on the indicated offence types, Eurostat requests also data on the total number of crimes recorded by the police, the total number of police officers and the total prison population.