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The 2010 edition of the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics contains data for 40 European countries, comprising the largest collection on criminal justice and crime-related data for Europe. The book addresses issues, such as: how police deal with crime throughout Europe * which decisions are taken by the prosecution services * how many offenders are convicted and how they are sanctioned * how many police officers and prosecutors there are in any given country * what there is to be learned from victim and offender surveys' data. In order to make the reader aware of possible limitations of the comparability of figures, all chapters contain information on offense definitions and recording practices. This is the newest volume in the WODC (Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek- en Documentatiecentrum / Research and Documentation Centre) series on Research and Policy. The WODC is an international criminal justice knowledge center which contributes to the development and the evaluation of justice policy set by the Netherlands Ministry of Justice.