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Minor and juvenile persons, victims of crimes by sex, age, kinds of crimes and by statistical zones, statistical regions and districts

Minor and juvenile persons, victims of crimes by sex, age, kinds of crimes and by statistical zones, statistical regions and districts

  • Data
    
    29.04.2025
  • Time series

    PRP_5_en.xlsx

  • Metadata
    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

    TsLilova@nsi.bg

    Contact phone number

    +359 2 9857 239

    Contact fax number
    Metadata update
    Metadata last certified29 April 2025
    Metadata last posted29 April 2025
    Metadata last update29 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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