Crimes, accused persons and persons convicted in 2022

In 2022 with effective and conditional sentences were concluded 26 088 crimes and convicted persons were 24 047. The number of convicted males was 21 973, or 91.4%, and females - 2 074 (8.6%). Among both men and women, the highest share of persons convicted was in the 30 - 39 age group - 27.6% for men and 30.5% for women.

Among the crimes with penalty inflicted, with the highest number and share were generally dangerous crimes - 13 428 (51.5%) for which 11 902 persons were convicted (49.5% of the total number of convicted persons). The second place in the structure were the crimes against the property - 4 617 (17.7%) with 5 052 convicted persons (21.0%).

Compared to 2021, there was a significant increase in both the number of crimes against the activity of state bodies, public organisations and persons performing public functions (by 26.1%) and the number of persons convicted for them (by 24.9%). The reason for this was the most common type among these crimes - illegal crossing of the boundary.

In the distribution of crimes with an inflicted penalty by the number of offenders, the highest share was of the crimes committed by one person - 95.9%. Two persons committing one crime in complicity was most common in the crimes against the property (9.8%), and crimes committed by three or more persons - in crimes against the order and public peace (3.3%).