Crimes with penalty inflicted and persons convicted by place of commitment of crimes
Contact | |
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Contact organisation | National Statistical Institute |
Contact organisation unit | „Health Care and Justice Statistics“ Department |
Contact name | Adriana Tetevenska |
Contact person function | State expert |
Contact mail address | 2, P. Volov Str.; 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria |
Contact email address | |
Contact phone number | +359 2 9857 592 |
Contact fax number | |
Metadata update | |
Metadata last certified | 16 July 2020 |
Metadata last posted | 16 July 2020 |
Metadata last update | 16 July 2020 |
Statistical presentation | |
Data description | Statistics of Crimes, accused and convicted persons statistics ensures comparable data on crimes, accused persons and persons convicted according to results of proceedings; the number of crimes with penalty inflicted by some kind and accussed and convicted persons. Data are presented by some kinds of crimes (according to the Penal Code), year of committment, age and sex, number of perpetrators, number of crimes, kind and size of penalties imposed. |
Classification system |
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Sector coverage | Cover aspects of the activity of Organisational units of the Ministry of Interior, National Investigation Office, Prosecution Office of the Republic of Bulgaria, Ministry of Defence, Customs agency and State agency „National Security“ and regional, district and martial courts, acting within the territory of the country. |
Statistical concepts and definitions | The number of crimes and persons convicted for certain reference year includes those with sentence that has come into force during the same year. Persons convicted, conditionally sentenced persons, as well as acquitted persons, persons released from punishment, and persons against whom legal proceedings have been terminated are included in the total number of defendants. Persons convicted with all kinds of inflicted penalty, including conditionally sentenced persons are included in the total number of persons convicted. The crimes concluded with penalty inflicted include all crimes with inflicted penalty regardless they had been committed by one or more persons. In case of complicity, a crime is considered to have been concluded with penalty inflicted if even when only one of the defendants has been convicted or conditionally sentenced. A crime committed in complicity ends with acquittal in case when all persons have been acquitted. Penal proceedings in case of a crime are considered to have been terminated with the termination of legal proceedings against the perpetrator or all perpetrators. Preparation of crimes is included in the total number of attempted crimes. In case of the conviction of a person for a number of crimes, data on the penalty inflicted on the person are provided for the most serious punishable offence, and data on each individual crime ? according to the respective type of crime. If according to the verdict in each case penal proceedings concerning these crimes have been concluded with an inflicted penalty, a conditional sentence, acquittal or termination of proceedings, data on each crime are provided under the respective verdict. For instance, if a person had committed robbery of property, theft of property and fraud - a person has been convicted for the first two crimes, and acquitted for the third one. The person is considered convicted for robbery of property (the most serious punishable offence), while data on crimes have been reported according to the respective type of crime: the first one - as a robbery of property; the second one - as theft of property; and the third one - as fraud ended by acquittal. In case a number of persons commit a crime, data on the crime itself are provided only once, while those concerning each perpetrator are given depending on the respective verdict. The total number of defendants and persons convicted does not coincide with the actual number of defendants and persons convicted, as for the duration of the reporting year a person may appear a number of times as a defendant or person convicted. In terms of the territorial distribution of persons convicted, the place of committing the most serious punishable offence is taken into account or the area of the last committed crime. As regards the continuing crime the territorial distribution is made by taking into account the last actions. Crimes committed abroad and subject to the jurisdiction of Courts in the Republic of Bulgaria are included in the total number of crimes. Data about crimes with penalty inflicted and persons convicted are given by districts, municipalities, cities and villages in accordance with the administrative-territorial division of the country according to the place of committing a crime. All socio-economic indicators characterizing persons convicted refer to the moment of committing a crime. The age of persons convicted is given in completed years. Persons who have completed 14, but not 18 years are considered as juveniles. In cases when the person convicted has committed more than one crime, the table about imposed penalties indicates the penalty on an aggregate. Convicted juvenile persons are included in the total number of persons convicted in spite of data on juveniles are differentiated. Crimes for which an amnesty has been granted by virtue of amnesty laws adopted by the National Assembly in May, November and December (published respectively in State Gazette?, No. No. 37, 91 and 99/1990) are not included in the data on crimes and persons convicted. Since 2008 to 2016 data on crimes and persons convicted are obtained on the basis of the NSI statistical survey data and data from administrative source (the Unified Information System for Counteraction to Criminality). |
Statistical unit | The survey object is the activity of the regional and district courts on penal trials of general, private and administrative character. Since 1998 the information for the activity of military courts and since 2012 – from the Specialized criminal court is also included. The information about the activity of Supreme Court of Cassation is not included. Surveyed units are crimes, concluded with penalty inflicted and persons convicted with sentences come into force. |
Statistical population | Comprehensive survey. Covers all regional, district and martial courts, acting within the territory of the country. |
Reference area | The Republic of Bulgaria's territory. |
Time coverage | 2010 - 2019 |
Base period | Not applicable. |
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Number. | |
Reference period | |
Calendar Year. | |
Institutional mandate | |
Legal acts and other agreements |
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Data sharing | Not applicable. |
Confidentiality | |
Confidentiality - policy |
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Confidentiality - data treatment | Individual data are not published in accordance with article 25 of the Law on Statistics. The publishing of individual data can be performed only in accordance with article 26 of the same law. |
Release policy | |
Release calendar | Statistical information publication date is indicated in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute. Data are disseminated once in the year. |
Release calendar access | The calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg |
User access | Data on Crimes, accused and persons convicted is published on the NSI website, section Justice and crime in accordance with the Law on Statistics and the European Statistics Code of Practice respecting the professional independence and aimed at objectivity, transparency and equal treatment of all consumers. |
Frequency of dissemination | |
Annually. | |
Accessibility and clarity | |
News release | Every year as the date is indicated in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute. |
Publications |
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On-line database | Data on Crimes, accused and persons convicted are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Justice: http://www.nsi.bg |
Micro-data access | Anonymised individual data can be provide for scientific and research purposes, and for individual request according to the Rules for the provision of anonymised individual data for scientific and research purposes. |
Other | Information service on request, according to the Rules for the dissemination of statistical products and services in NSI. |
Documentation on methodology | The data are provided by all Organisational units of the Ministry of Interior, National Investigation Office, Prosecution Office of the Republic of Bulgaria, Ministry of Defence and regional, district and martial courts, acting within the territory of the country in line with pre-defined procedure and quality data's ensuring. |
Quality documentation | In accordance with established criterion on statistical data quality. |
Quality management | |
Quality assurance | Quality criterion are ensured. |
Quality assessment | An assessment is carried out in the NSI. |
Relevance | |
User needs | Needs are conditioned by necessities of the criminality prevention policy in the country and society need of information on trends in the field of punished criminality. |
User satisfaction | Regular assessment of needs and ways for their satisfaction is made. |
Completeness | Data cover all Chapters of the Penal Code. |
Accuracy and reliability | |
Overall accuracy | Not applicable. |
Sampling error | Not applicable. |
Non-sampling error | Not applicable. |
Timeliness and punctuality | |
Timeliness | T+6 months. |
Punctuality | Data are disseminated according to the Release Calendar timelines. |
Coherence and comparability | |
Comparability - geographical | Data are comparable. |
Comparability - over time | Data are comparable. |
Coherence - cross domain | Data are coherent. |
Coherence - internal | Data are coherent. |
Cost and burden | |
The main burden is on the organisational units of the Ministry of Interior, National Investigation Office, Prosecution Office of the Republic of Bulgaria, Ministry of Defence, Customs agency and State agency „National Security“ and regional, district and martial courts, acting within the territory of the country and the NSI's staff - in RSOs and Central office. | |
Data revision | |
Data revision - policy | Not applicable. |
Data revision - practice | Not applicable. |
Statistical processing | |
Source data | Organisational units of the Ministry of Interior, National Investigation Office, Prosecution Office of the Republic of Bulgaria, Ministry of Defence, Customs agency and State agency „National Security“ and regional, district and martial courts, acting within the territory of the country. |
Frequency of data collection | Annually. |
Data collection | Comprehensive survey through filling in the statistical questionaire „Card for accused person (1-СС)“ by the bodies of pre-judical and judical processing and data from administrativa source - the Unified Information System for Counteraction to Criminality.
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Data validation | In the NSI at the national level. |
Data compilation | Data are processed in the Central Statistical Office at the national level. |
Adjustment | Not applicable. |
Comment |
- Crimes with penalty inflicted by place of commitment and by statistical zones, statistical regions, districts and municipalities
- Persons convicted by place of commitment of crime and by number of crimes, statistical zones, statistical regions, districts and municipalities
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Friday, 17 July 2015 - 11:00The trials of 34 182 committed crimes were concluded in 2014. The number of accused persons was 37 504. 31 849 persons were convicted in 2014. Compared to 2013 a decrease by 6.6% was observed.
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Friday, 29 May 2015 - 11:00
According to the preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute for the second semester of 2014, the trials ended with inflicted penalty cover 12 256 committed crimes.
The number of accused persons was 15 812. The number of persons convicted with penalties come into force amounted to 13 609 as 680 of them were between 14 -17 years that presents 5.0% of the total number of all convicted persons.
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Friday, 17 April 2015 - 11:00Revised press-release as of 29.04.2015 1The number of minors and juveniles registered in the Child pedagogic rooms for anti-social acts and crimes commitment in 2014 was 10 768.1 Press-release published as of 17.04.2015, 11.00 am. is revised due to data processing error.
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Friday, 21 November 2014 - 11:00
According to the preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute for the first semester of 2014, the trials ended with inflicted penalty cover 11 208 committed crimes.
The number of persons convicted with penalties come into force amounted to 12 210 as 672 of them were between 14 -17 years that presents 5.5% of the total number of all convicted persons.
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Friday, 18 July 2014 - 11:00
According to the National Statistical Institute’s preliminary data, the trials of 37 238 committed crimes were proceeded in 2013. Proceedings of 17 972 crimes were ended with effective sentences, of 13 427 crimes - with conditional sentences, of 1 019 crimes - with acquittal sentences, of 101 crimes - with suspension and of 4 719 crimes - with release of penalty.
Proceedings of 31 399 committed crimes were ended with penalties. That was 8.3% less in comparison with 2012.
The number of accused persons in 2013 was 40 427.
The number of persons convicted with penalties came into force was 34 209 in 2013. Compared to 2012 a decrease of the number of persons convicted was observed by 10.0%.
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Friday, 30 May 2014 - 11:00
According to the preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute for the second semester of 2013, the trials ended with inflicted penalty covered 13 274 committed crimes.
The number of accused persons in second half of 2013 was 16 974.
The number of persons convicted with penalties came into force amounted to 14 570, while 777 of them were Juveniles aged 14 - 17 years, that presents 5.3% of the total number of convicted persons.
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Friday, 4 April 2014 - 11:00
According to the NSI’s preliminary data the number of minors and juveniles registered in the Child pedagogic rooms for anti-social acts and crimes commitment in 2013 was 10 536.
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Wednesday, 20 November 2013 - 11:00
According to the preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute for the first semester of 2013, the trials ended with inflicted penalty cover 12 723 committed crimes.
The number of persons convicted with penalties come into force amounted to 13 905.
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Tuesday, 16 July 2013 - 11:00
In 2012 the trials ended with penalty inflicted cover 34 249 committed crimes that were by 6.7% less in comparison with 2011. The number of persons convicted with penalties came into force was 37 996. Compared to 2011 a decrease of the number of persons convicted was observed by 7.4%.
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Tuesday, 28 May 2013 - 11:00
According to the preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute for the second semester of 2012, the trials ended with inflicted penalty cover 14 259 committed crimes.
The number of persons convicted with penalties came into force amounted to 15 943, while 961 of them were Juveniles aged 14-17 years, that presents 6.0% of the total number of convicted persons.
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Statistical Reference Book 2017
The National Statistical Institute presents to users of statistical information the annual publication - Statistical Reference Book 2017 in English.
The Statistical Reference Book presents topical information on the demographic processes as well as the economic, social and cultural development of the Republic of Bulgaria for the 2013 - 2016 period.
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Statistical Reference Book 2017 (Bulgarian version)
The National Statistical Institute presents to users of statistical information the annual publication - Statistical Reference Book 2017 in Bulgarian.
The Statistical Reference Book presents topical information on the demographic processes as well as the economic, social and cultural development of the Republic of Bulgaria for the 2013 - 2016 period.
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Bulgaria 2017
The National Statistical Institute presents the bilingual (Bulgarian/English) brochure Bulgaria 2017 to users of statistical information. The brochure is addressed to a wide range of users (international institutions, business, students, experts etc.) and changes the traditional presentation of statistical information by offering an innovative structure with a parallel translation in English. The publication contains topical statistical information about the demographic, social and economic development of the country over the 2012 - 2016 period.