I. Introduction : Improving criminal justice statistics / Jörg-Martin Jehle. II. CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE STATISTICS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES : 1. Dannish criminal justice / Paul Henning Larsen; 2. Statistics of crime and criminal justice in England and Wales / Gordon Barclay; 3. Crime and criminal justoice in Germany; 4. Greek crime statistics / Calliope D. Spinellis, Maria Kranidioti. 5. Brief review on the situation of the Hungarian crime statistics; 6. Statistical data collections on crime and Criminal justice in Italy / Armando Caputo. 7. Crime and Criminal justice statistics in Netherlands / Max M. Kommer; 8. Criminal statistics in Poland / Jerzy Jasinski; 9. Criminal statistics in Portugal / J. de Seabra Lopes; 10. The Swedish system of criminal statistics / Torbjörn Israelsson. 11. An example from the developing countries: Criminal justice statistics in Africa; 12. An exaple from overseas: Canada's justice statistics program / Sange da Silva. III. INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS AND PROSPECTS : 1. International studies and statistics on crime and criminal justice / Chris Lewis; 2. International comparison of crime and Criminal justice / Jean Gratia; 3. International prospects for statistics of criminality; 4. The European Criminal Justice. Sourcebook project / Martin Killias.