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Judicial system

Official statistics of Sweden

Surveys by statistics areas

  • Courts of law

    Court statistics

    Statistical agency: National Courts Administration

    The statistics include the scope of and decisions on cases, bankruptcies and court matters and decided civil law cases concerning family law, as well as processing order, processing time and frequency of appeals and changes.

  • Offences

    Confirmed cases of lethal violence

    Statistical agency: Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention

    Criminal statistics

    Statistical agency: Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention

    The statistics show numbers for reported offences, cleared-up offences, persons suspected of offences, persons convicted of offences, the correctional care system and recidivism.

    Persons suspected of crime

    Statistical agency: Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention

    The statistics show persons suspected of offences on reasonable grounds, broken down by age, sex and region for different types of offence. In addition, how many offences the persons suspected on reasonable grounds have taken part in (crime participation) is also reported.

    Processed offences

    Statistical agency: Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention

    The statistics show the scope and structure of cleared-up offences, the proportion of offences that are cleared up, regional distribution and trend over time. The statistics are based on decisions made by police and prosecutors. Some of these decisions are conviction decisions.

    Processed suspicions of crime

    Statistical agency: Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention

    Reported offences

    Statistical agency: Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention

    The statistics show the type of reported and registered offence at national, county, municipal level and in Göteborg, Malmö and Stockholm at municipal district level.

    Swedish Crime Survey

    Statistical agency: Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention

    The Politician's Safety Survey

    Statistical agency: Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention

  • Persons found guilty of criminal offences

    Persons convicted of offences

    Statistical agency: Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention

    The statistics include prosecution decision by main crime and primary penalty reported by age, sex and region.

    Persons found guilty of drug offences

    Statistical agency: Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention

    The statistics show the type of act, type of substance and weight, scope and development of drug offences and direction and scope of penalties broken down by the convicted persons' age and sex and location of where the conviction decision was made.

  • Recidivism

    Recidivism – final statistics

    Statistical agency: Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention

    The statistics show the number of persons who relapse into crime broken down by sex, age and previous adjudications, time to first relapse, number of relapses and risk of relapse.

    Recidivism – preliminary statistics

    Statistical agency: Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention

    The statistics show the number of persons who relapse into crime broken down by sex, age and previous adjudications, time to first relapse, number of relapses and risk of relapse.

  • The correctional care system

    Prison and Remand

    Statistical agency: Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention

    The statistics include information about persons imprisonment sentences served at a correctional facility. The statistics also show the number of detained persons, leaves and deviations.

    Probation

    Statistical agency: Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention

    The statistics include information about persons serving a sentence administrated by the Probation Service, such as intensive supervision with electronic monitoring ('tagging') and persons with probation, conditional sentence with community service, juvenile supervision and persons who are conditionally released from prison.

    The Prison and Probation Service

    Statistical agency: Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention

    The statistics include information about persons imprisonment sentences served at a correctional facility or with intensive monitoring with electronic control, offenders conditionally released from correctional facilities and persons sentenced to probation. The statistics also show the number of detained persons, leaves and deviations.