Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures by statistical zones, statistical regions and by districts

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MINOR AND JUVENILE PERSONS REGISTERED, NEW ENTRANTS AND PASSED ON FOR ANTI-SOCIAL ACTS IN CHILD PEDAGOGIC ROOMS AND WITH IMPOSED EDUCATIVE MEASURES IN 2024 BY STATISTICAL ZONES, STATISTICAL REGIONS AND BY DISTRICTS

(Number)
Statistical zones Statistical regions Districts	Total	Age
		8 - 13			14 - 17
		total	boys	girls	total	boys	girls
Total for the country
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	8 430	1 829	1 377	452	6 601	5 186	1 415
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	2 699	710	549	161	1 989	1 579	410
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	5 609	1 391	966	425	4 218	2 951	1 267
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	5 361	1 872	1 464	408	3 489	2 809	680
Severna i Yugoiztochna Bulgaria
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	4 731	1 065	787	278	3 666	3 001	665
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	1 419	415	302	113	1 004	818	186
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	2 640	672	474	198	1 968	1 384	584
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	3 107	1 133	900	233	1 974	1 634	340
Severozapaden
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	1 058	247	182	65	811	637	174
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	269	82	58	24	187	143	44
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	643	210	115	95	433	269	164
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	747	231	172	59	516	419	97
Vidin
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	204	35	29	6	169	121	48
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	38	10	7	3	28	19	9
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	160	16	7	9	144	70	74
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	138	43	33	10	95	69	26
Vratsa
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	242	79	62	17	163	145	18
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	48	20	16	4	28	21	7
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	115	36	19	17	79	71	8
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	185	57	40	17	128	110	18
Lovech
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	203	43	30	13	160	127	33
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	75	23	17	6	52	46	6
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	139	36	16	20	103	62	41
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	121	42	33	9	79	60	19
Montana
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	63	10	9	1	53	48	5
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	7	0	0	0	7	7	0
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	23	6	2	4	17	11	6
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	118	38	29	9	80	70	10
Pleven
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	346	80	52	28	266	196	70
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	101	29	18	11	72	50	22
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	206	116	71	45	90	55	35
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	185	51	37	14	134	110	24
Severen tsentralen
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	1 069	224	161	63	845	702	143
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	362	91	71	20	271	223	48
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	498	116	86	30	382	289	93
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	774	280	222	58	494	396	98
Veliko Tarnovo
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	400	74	53	21	326	265	61
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	155	35	28	7	120	101	19
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	158	19	17	2	139	104	35
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	290	105	87	18	185	152	33
Gabrovo
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	266	64	43	21	202	150	52
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	89	23	14	9	66	47	19
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	156	66	46	20	90	58	32
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	159	60	37	23	99	75	24
Razgrad
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	133	30	24	6	103	90	13
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	45	18	15	3	27	24	3
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	51	9	7	2	42	34	8
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	91	27	21	6	64	56	8
Ruse
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	201	40	27	13	161	148	13
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	62	13	12	1	49	42	7
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	111	16	10	6	95	83	12
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	157	58	48	10	99	72	27
Silistra
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	69	16	14	2	53	49	4
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	11	2	2	0	9	9	0
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	22	6	6	0	16	10	6
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	77	30	29	1	47	41	6
Severoiztochen
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	1 125	245	192	53	880	699	181
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	346	99	70	29	247	193	54
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	757	166	132	34	591	434	157
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	630	240	185	55	390	329	61
Varna
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	545	104	72	32	441	338	103
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	175	41	22	19	134	103	31
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	290	56	47	9	234	158	76
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	224	68	44	24	156	132	24
Dobrich
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	226	55	49	6	171	144	27
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	57	23	21	2	34	27	7
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	262	55	44	11	207	162	45
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	162	73	62	11	89	76	13
Targovishte
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	143	21	14	7	122	97	25
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	37	13	9	4	24	17	7
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	82	25	17	8	57	37	20
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	102	41	33	8	61	54	7
Shumen
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	211	65	57	8	146	120	26
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	77	22	18	4	55	46	9
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	123	30	24	6	93	77	16
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	142	58	46	12	84	67	17
Yugoiztochen
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	1 479	349	252	97	1 130	963	167
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	442	143	103	40	299	259	40
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	742	180	141	39	562	392	170
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	956	382	321	61	574	490	84
Burgas
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	401	78	49	29	323	239	84
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	91	25	21	4	66	52	14
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	187	22	16	6	165	123	42
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	253	73	64	9	180	152	28
Sliven
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	387	107	88	19	280	261	19
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	104	29	25	4	75	68	7
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	212	53	37	16	159	104	55
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	216	106	89	17	110	100	10
Stara Zagora
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	439	72	62	10	367	328	39
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	133	24	22	2	109	98	11
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	298	90	75	15	208	142	66
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	330	154	119	35	176	145	31
Yambol
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	252	92	53	39	160	135	25
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	114	65	35	30	49	41	8
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	45	15	13	2	30	23	7
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	157	49	49	0	108	93	15
Yugozapadna I Yuzhna tsentralna Bulgaria
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	3 699	764	590	174	2 935	2 185	750
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	1 280	295	247	48	985	761	224
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	2 969	719	492	227	2 250	1 567	683
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	2 254	739	564	175	1 515	1 175	340
Yugozapaden
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	2 066	330	238	92	1 736	1 238	498
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	700	93	76	17	607	444	163
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	1 721	367	232	135	1 354	882	472
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	1 192	348	249	99	844	642	202
Blagoevgrad
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	355	110	88	22	245	214	31
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	96	29	22	7	67	55	12
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	242	81	66	15	161	127	34
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	218	77	50	27	141	126	15
Kyustendil
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	92	11	4	7	81	34	47
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	34	4	0	4	30	12	18
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	116	25	16	9	91	41	50
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	63	26	13	13	37	23	14
Pernik
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	171	40	26	14	131	102	29
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	45	10	10	0	35	28	7
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	169	27	19	8	142	80	62
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	99	25	13	12	74	58	16
Sofia
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	291	56	44	12	235	191	44
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	82	17	16	1	65	58	7
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	115	34	15	19	81	55	26
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	196	57	45	12	139	106	33
Sofia - stolitsa
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	1 157	113	76	37	1 044	697	347
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	443	33	28	5	410	291	119
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	1 079	200	116	84	879	579	300
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	616	163	128	35	453	329	124
Yuzhen tsentralen
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	1 633	434	352	82	1 199	947	252
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	580	202	171	31	378	317	61
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	1 248	352	260	92	896	685	211
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	1 062	391	315	76	671	533	138
Kardzhali
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	65	9	6	3	56	42	14
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	5	0	0	0	5	5	0
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	123	26	21	5	97	80	17
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	80	19	13	6	61	41	20
Pazardzhik
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	479	107	87	20	372	291	81
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	136	31	25	6	105	89	16
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	254	67	40	27	187	155	32
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	180	56	45	11	124	93	31
Plovdiv
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	790	230	187	43	560	461	99
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	299	122	103	19	177	150	27
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	638	164	132	32	474	355	119
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	564	223	181	42	341	268	73
Smolyan
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	103	22	17	5	81	72	9
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	41	15	13	2	26	25	1
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	107	49	42	7	58	45	13
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	49	17	15	2	32	31	1
Haskovo
Children registered in Child pedagogic rooms during the year - total	196	66	55	11	130	81	49
incl.: children new entrants in Child pedagogic rooms during the year	99	34	30	4	65	48	17
Children passed on to Child pedagogic rooms during the year for committed anti-social acts	126	46	25	21	80	50	30
Minor and juvenile persons with imposed educative measures	189	76	61	15	113	100	13

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Anti-Social Acts and Crimes of Minor and Juvenile Persons
Contact
Contact organisation	The National Statistical Institute
Contact organisation unit	„Health Care and Justice Statistics“ Department
Contact name	Tsvetelina Lilova
Contact person function	Senior expert
Contact mail address	2, P. Volov Str.; 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria
Contact email address	[email protected]
Contact phone number	+359 2 9857 239
Contact fax number
Metadata update
Metadata last certified	29 April 2025
Metadata last posted	29 April 2025
Metadata last update	29 April 2025
Statistical presentation
Data description	Statistics of anti-social acts and crimes, perpetrated by minor and juvenile persons ensures data on the number of registered, new entrants and removed from Child pedagogic rooms, the number of persons passed on to Child pedagogic rooms; the number of committed anti-social acts and crimes by minor and juvenile persons; the number of minor and juvenile persons with inflicted educational measures as well as the number of minor and juvenile persons, victims of crimes.
Classification system	Classification of Territorial Units for Statistics in Bulgaria (NUTS); Unified Classification of Administrative-Territorial and Territorial Units (UCATTU).
Sector coverage	Cover activities of the Local Commissions for prevention of juvenile delinquency.
Statistical concepts and definitions	The Local commissions for prevention of juvenile delinquency is the competent authority which: organize and coordinate the preventive social activities on the territory of the municipality; consider educational cases for the anti-social acts, committed by minors and juveniles, and crimes, committed by juveniles, released from criminal liability under art. 61 of the Criminal Code (CC), for which the cases have been sent for consideration by the local commission; consider the cases when juveniles have committed acts for which another normative act provides for the imposition of an educational measure under the Control of Juvenile Anti-social Behaviour Act (CJASBA); enforce measures imposed under the CJASBA and monitor their implementation. Minors are the persons who have completed 8 - 13 years of age. Juveniles are the persons who have completed 14 - 17 years of age. Child pedagogic rooms are special institutions which: are responsible for tracing and finding out minor offenders and the reasons and conditions for their anti-social acts or crimes; trace and find out minors who are subject of criminal encroachment, maltreatment, or have been left uncontrolled; inform the court, prosecution or other competent institutions in case they receive information about criminal conduct in relation to minors by the parents, the persons substituting for them or third parties; participate in the prevention of crime and anti-social acts committed by minors and juveniles; register minors and juveniles who have committed crimes and anti-social acts, convicted juveniles for crimes of a general nature, released from correctional facilities, released from correctional boarding schools and released from social pedagogic boarding schools, accommodated in them by the order of CJASBA. Social-pedagogic boarding schools are special institutions where placed minors and juveniles when they have committed anti-social acts or there are prerequisites for committing such acts. Correctional boarding schools are special institutions where placed minors and juveniles if they have committed anti-social acts in relation to which the correctional measures referred to CJASBA have proved insufficient and there is no appropriate social environment for the normal upbringing of these minors. Juveniles to whom the court or the prosecutor has imposed such a measure under art. 61 and 64 of the CC are accommodated in correctional boarding schools. An anti-social act is an act which is publicly dangerous and against the law or contradicts the morality and good manners. The educational measure is an alternative to the punishment measure for educational impact on minor and juvenile, who have committed an anti-social act, and juvenile, released from criminal liability under art. 61 of the CC, and is necessary in order to overcome deviations in behaviour, prevent future violations and integration into society.
Statistical unit	The object of survey is the activity of Local commissions for prevention of juvenile delinquency. Units of survey are the minor and juvenile persons perpetrators of anti-social acts and crimes.
Statistical population	Covers the Local commissions for prevention of juvenile delinquency existing in the country.
Reference area	The Republic of Bulgaria's territory.
Time coverage	2010 - 2024
Base period	Not applicable.
Unit of measure
Number.
Reference period
Year.
Institutional mandate
Legal acts and other agreements	Law on Statistics; Criminal Code; Control of Juvenile Anti-social Behaviour Act.
Data sharing	Not applicable.
Confidentiality
Confidentiality - policy	Law on Statistics; Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.
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 art. 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 NSI. Data are disseminated once a year.
Release calendar access	The Release Calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480
User access	Data on Anti-social acts and crimes of minor and juvenile persons 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	Annually as the date is indicated in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the NSI.
Publications	Statistical yearbook.
On-line database	Data on Anti-social acts and crimes of minor and juvenile persons are available to all users of the NSI website under the section Justice and crime as well as in Informational System INFOSTAT.
Micro-data access	Not applicable.
Other	Information service on request, according to the Rules for the dissemination of statistical products and services in NSI.
Documentation on methodology	Data are provided by the Local commissions for prevention of juvenile delinquency in line with predefined procedure and in compliance with the requirements for reliability and quality of the data. Quality control of the data is performed by the NSI.
Quality documentation	Not available.
Quality management
Quality assurance	The criteria for the quality of the statistical data are provided.
Quality assessment	An assessment is carried out in the NSI in the context of implementation of the criteria for the quality of the statistical data.
Relevance
User needs	The needs are determined by conducting a policy of prevention of juvenile delinquency.
User satisfaction	Regular assessment of needs and ways for their satisfaction is made.
Completeness	Full coverage of the statistical units.
Accuracy and reliability
Overall accuracy	Not applicable.
Sampling error	Not applicable.
Non-sampling error	Not applicable.
Timeliness and punctuality
Timeliness	T+3 months.
Punctuality	Data are disseminated according to the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the NSI.
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 Local commissions for prevention of juvenile delinquency and inspectors of Child pedagogic rooms. In the NSI - the experts responsible for conducting the survey by the Regional Statistical Offices (RSO) and the Head office (HO).
Data revision
Data revision - policy	Not applicable.
Data revision - practice	Not applicable.
Statistical processing
Source data	The Local Commissions for prevention of juvenile delinquency and structural units of the Ministry of Interior.
Frequency of data collection	Annually.
Data collection	Exhaustive Survey through filling in the statistical questionnaire by the Local commissions for prevention of juvenile delinquency with the participation of the representatives of structural units of the Ministry of Interior.
Data validation	Performed in the Head office of the NSI.
Data compilation	Data are processed centralized, at national level.
Adjustment	Not applicable.
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