SPACE
The Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics, better known as SPACE (Statistiques Pénales Annuelles du Conseil de l’Europe) consist in two related projects. SPACE I provides data on imprisonment and penal institutions annually since 1983. SPACE II collects data on non-custodial sanctions and measures since 1992 (annually since 2009).
These statistics are provided by a network of national correspondents working at the prison and probation services of the 47 Council of Europe member States. They are currently verified, processed and analysed by a team of researchers at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. SPACE is a world-wide known project which is a valuable source of comparative information and data used by international organisations, national authorities, policy makers, practitioners and experts working in the penal field.
Click on the link to see the Council of Europe SPACE data
The European Sourcebook
The European Sourcebook Group is a group of experts that produces on a regular basis the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics. The first European Sourcebook project started in 1996. In that year the Council of Europe established a committee to prepare a compendium of crime and criminal justice data for its Member States.
The 6th edition of the European Sourcebook can be downloaded here
Other Research Reports
in Council of Europe Member States
in Council of Europe Member States
Executive Summary and recommendations
Written by Ioan Durnescu.
A literature review: summary of key messages
Desistance Research and Offender Management
Final report of the Women’s Justice Taskforce