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154 New imprisonments, by sex, age and type of principal offence. 2011
Type of principal offence1 Total2, 3 Sex Age
Men Women 15-17 18-20 21-24 25-29 30-39 40-49 -50
Total1, 2 11 239 10 273  966 68  800 1 815 1 864 2 783 1 924 1 133
                     
Crimes 7 936 7 303  633 61  594 1 425 1 492 2 220 1 441  703
                     
Crime against the Penal Code 7 265 6 677  588 58  568 1 339 1 390 2 042 1 262  606
Crime against public authorities  385  347 38 - 38 87 78 89 63 30
Assaulting public servant  309  273 36 - 31 76 62 69 48 23
Other 76 74 2 - 7 11 16 20 15 7
Crime against public order and peace 38 37 1 - 2 6 7 12 11 -
Housebreaking and burglary 36 36 - - 2 4 7 12 11 -
Other 2 1 1 - - 2 - - - -
Crime involving public danger 1 677 1 523  154 7 74  222  354  564  319  137
Arson 10 9 1 - 1 1 - 3 4 1
Crime of narcotics 1 046  959 87 6 54  154  213  338  193 88
Serious crime of narcotics  611  545 66 - 19 64  139  220  121 48
Other 10 10 - 1 - 3 2 3 1 -
Perjury and false evidence 73 64 9 - 9 19 21 19 2 3
False accusation 36 27 9 - 5 10 7 10 2 2
Counterfeiting 6 4 2 - - - 1 3 2 -
Forgery  265  247 18 - 17 44 57 95 42 10
Sexual crime  411  406 5 1 19 65 52 93 88 93
Rape 99 97 2 - 11 20 15 26 16 11
Attempted rape 9 9 - - 1 4 2 1 1 -
Incest 1 1 - - - - - - 1 -
Sexual intercourse with children  157  156 1 1 5 31 20 35 32 33
Sexual intercourse with children under 10 years of age 23 23 - - 1 2 - 6 5 9
Sexual intercourse with children under 14 years of age 68 67 1 1 2 14 7 15 10 19
Sexual intercourse with children under 16 years of age 66 66 - - 2 15 13 14 17 5
Other sexual intercourse 18 17 1 - - - 2 2 6 8
Pornography 39 39 - - 1 2 6 10 12 8
Other 88 87 1 - 1 8 7 19 20 33
Crime concerning family relations  230  218 12 - 2 18 28 65 79 38
Crime against personal liberty  399  382 17 3 18 54 73  120 72 59
Crime of violence against the person 1 256 1 196 60 6  173  379  253  242  146 57
Assault  322  311 11 2 35 79 72 64 48 22
Wounding or inflicting bodily harm  828  786 42 4  125  269  163  161 79 27
Inflicting grievous bodily harm 4 4 - - 1 1 2 - - -
Attempted murder 17 16 1 - 2 3 3 4 4 1
Murder 22 20 2 - - 9 2 3 6 2
Manslaughter 26 25 1 - 6 7 4 3 4 2
Other 37 34 3 - 4 11 7 7 5 3
Embezzlement 80 58 22 - 1 6 9 21 21 22
Larceny 1 339 1 225  114 25  111  250  249  444  214 46
Simple and minor larceny  402  353 49 6 32 58 81  131 75 19
Aggravated larceny  744  688 56 17 64  138  130  257  116 22
Theft of motor vehicle  193  184 9 2 15 54 38 56 23 5
Blackmail and robbery  297  288 9 13 66 91 75 33 16 3
Blackmail 8 8 - - - 1 5 - 2 -
Robbery  174  170 4 6 39 64 39 18 6 2
Aggravated robbery  108  104 4 6 26 26 27 15 7 1
Blackmail and robbery, various 7 6 1 1 1 - 4 - 1 -
Fraud and breach of trust  452  353 99 1 7 28 65  141  120 90
Crime in connection with debts 8 8 - - - - - 3 2 3
Crime inflicting damage to property 78 71 7 2 13 15 20 15 9 4
Inflicting slight damage 45 42 3 - 5 10 17 7 6 -
Inflicting serious damage 33 29 4 2 8 5 3 8 3 4
Receiving stolen goods and money laundering  234  222 12 - 13 45 41 72 54 9
Simple receiving stolen goods and money laundering  181  170 11 - 9 34 30 57 45 6
Aggravated receiving stolen goods and money laundering 43 42 1 - 4 8 8 12 8 3
Other 10 10 - - - 3 3 3 1 -
Other crime against the Penal Code 1 1 - - - - - 1 - -
                     
Crime against the Act relating to medicinal goods etc.  267  240 27 2 17 58 47 89 44 10
Use of narcotics  198  179 19 1 14 47 35 62 29 10
Possession of narcotics 67 59 8 1 3 9 12 27 15 -
Narcotics, various 2 2 - - - 2 - - - -
                     
Crime against the Act relating to value added tax 34 33 1 - - 1 - 3 15 15
                     
Crime against the Assessment Act 10 10 - - - - - 4 2 4
                     
Crime against the Duty Act  122  117 5 - 7 20 26 32 23 14
                     
Crime against the Alcohol legislation 1 1 - - - - 1 - - -
                     
Crime against other Acts  237  225 12 1 2 7 28 50 95 54
                     
Misdemeanours 2 304 2 086  218 3  192  354  335  525  468  427
                     
Misdemeanour against the Penal Code  139  134 5 1 6 18 25 46 27 16
Misdemeanour inflicting damage to property 1 1 - - 1 - - - - -
Petty larceny 9 9 - - - 2 3 2 2 -
Misdemeanour against public order and peace 11 11 - - - 4 3 1 1 2
Telephone harassment 6 5 1 - - - - 1 3 2
Other  112  108 4 1 5 12 19 42 21 12
                     
Traffic misdemeanour 2 025 1 815  210 -  180  323  282  448  405  387
Driving under influence of alcohol 1 569 1 374  195 -  111  222  214  340  335  347
Other  456  441 15 - 69  101 68  108 70 40
                     
Misdemeanour against the Police regulations 1 1 - - - - - - - 1
                     
Misdemeanour against the Duty Act 32 30 2 - 2 5 5 9 8 3
                     
Misdemeanour against other Acts  107  106 1 2 4 8 23 22 28 20
                     
Crimes or misdemeanours  140  127 13 4 14 36 35 34 14 3
                     
Crime or misdemeanour against the Duty Act 16 15 1 - - 1 5 3 5 2
                     
Crime or misdemeanour against other Acts  124  112 12 4 14 35 30 31 9 1
                     
Unknown offence 7 7 - - - - 2 4 1 -
1  Type of principal offence without unit is excluded, cf. table on offences reported.
2  Includes 852 cases of serving sentence in for not paying a fine (750 men and 102 women), which can not be distributed by age and type of principal offence.
3  Includes 912 new imprisonments for prison sentences served using electronic monitoring (781 men and 131 women). These are distributed by type of principal offence, of which 393 are crimes and 519 are misdemeanours.
Source: Imprisonments, Statistics Norway.
More information:  http://www.ssb.no/en/fengsling 

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