The aim of this project is to study patterns of offence rates over time and space in the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This will involve the display and analysis of the changing levels and composition of a selected group of offences covering the transition period during the 1990's from planed to market economy and including the years of preparation for the integration into the European Union. The study will deal with three different spatial scales. The first is the macro scale, involving comparisons at the level of the nation state in the 1990s whilst the second is the meso scale, involving the analysis of regional patterns of crime within the three countries. Finally, the micro scale will focus on the analysis of intra-urban patterns of crime using a fine detailed geographical database for a capital city of one of the three countries. The novelty of this project refers to the inclusion of the spatial dimension of crime in different spatial scales, which is often neglected in the recent literature. Until recently, spatial crime analysis in these nations in transition was rare simply because data was not systematically available or data quality was still a major limiting factor.