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Defining and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures - Oapen

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Prosecution 205<br />

In most of the responding countries the counting unit is “proceedings”. The<br />

categories for the prosecutorial case ending disposals seem to work, but are not<br />

applicable in every country due to different competencies of the public prosecution.<br />

The question if unknown offenders are excluded or included in the statistics<br />

influences very strongly the number of cases recorded; at least because of the<br />

respective answers we can explain the differences to some extent. A breakdown<br />

by the offence groups is not provided for in most of the countries. But nonetheless<br />

the collection of data seems to be worth while because the response rate varies<br />

at least from 10 to 17 countries according to different offence groups. For<br />

details, see tables K.6 – K.8.4 below.

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