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10622: Sanctions, by type of sanction, type of principal offence, contents and year

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10622: Sanctions, by type of sanction, type of principal offence, contents and year

 Penal sanctions
199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014
Conditional waiver of prosecution                  
All types of offences4293192332192191591645599517721 4261 7061 9592 6152 7162 3493 2083 303
¬ Crimes173132105741451181101765123878758788171 3461 2461 3461 7541 888
¬ Misdemeanours2561871281457441543834393855518281 1421 2691 4701 0031 4541 415
 

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The statistics includes sanctions against persons and enterprises. The types of sanctions which usually are issued enterprises are fine, fines given by the courts or prosecutions conditionally dropped. The number of enterprises can from 2011 be identified in the category unknown age and sex in statistics for these types of sanctions. See table 10623. The years 1997-2001 are only published with standard for principal offence before the new penal code (group of offence -2014 and type of offence -2014).
The older type of sanction community service was replaced by community sanction in 2002. The category community service also includes community service.
The older special sanction security detention was in 2002 replaced with preventive detention, compulsory mental health care and compulsory care. Security detention in combination with unconditional imprisonment is placed in the category unconditional imprisonment, while security detention alone is placed in the category other type of sanction. From year 2019, on the spot fines for maritime conditions (småbåtloven § 42) are included in the statistics. All such on the spot fines are categorized under the type of principal offense «Other transport and traffic legislation» in the group of offense «traffic offenses». The figures for penal sanctions in 2019 have been corrected on 6 March 2022. The change resulted in 9 fewer sanctions, of which 4 fewer sentences to compulsory mental health care for murder or attempted murder.
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