TY - JOUR AB - Police crime statistics provide the Federal Ministry of the Interior with a source of data that, while enabling us to analyze the effectiveness of security policy activities, is sometimes the object of vigorous political discourse. This is not a big surprise; when empirics or measured facts meet policies, immediate conclusions are drawn on the efficiency and effectiveness of public action performed by the state because the data create the impression that they allow the monitoring of state action. Especially in compiling and utilizing statistics generated by the authorities, fundamental progressive considerations are required as to what information is eventually needed (or can or should be used) for public policy planning and making, and what inputs and methods are required to collect such data. Meaningful content-related, practical analysis and discussion are only possible if the data required for this purpose can be collected on an ongoing basis and in a good quality, and in addition to the presentation of facts, the main causes and effects of the phenomena to be monitored are also examined. This requirement becomes tangible within the concept of evidence-based policymaking. The objective of evidence-based policymaking thus consists of the presentation of functional chains in order to ensure that causal effects are taken into account. This paper attempts to illustrate the concept of evidence-based policymaking through the example of police-generated crime statistics. It illustrates and raises basic issues of integrating empirical data into political governance, coming to the final conclusion that police-generated crime statistics may also be an excellent instrument of evidence-based policymaking. No rational, consequence-oriented crime and criminal law policy is possible without a sound empirical basis. AU - Schwarzer, Steve DO - 10.7396/IE_2011_A ET - 3/2013 KW - police crime statistics Federal Ministry of the Interior Austria evidence-based policymaking scientific reflection L1 - http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_SIAK/4/2/1/ie2011/files/Schwarzer_IE_2011.pdf LA - eng PY - 2011 SN - 1813-3495 SP - 4-15 ST - Police Crime Statistics. In an Area of Tension Between Administrative Action and Evidence-Based Policy Making T2 - SIAK-Journal − Journal for Police Science and Practice TI - Police Crime Statistics. In an Area of Tension Between Administrative Action and Evidence-Based Policy Making UR - http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_SIAK/4/2/1/ie2011/files/Schwarzer_IE_2011.pdf VL - 1 ID - 410 ER -