Defining and Registering Criminal Offences and Measures - Oapen

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Criminal Offences Total
nal offences total (“Minor property offences handled outside the criminal justice
system” and “Minor violent offences handled outside the criminal justice system”).
Apart from this, also in order to handle the minor offences problem, there
was a minor offence sub-category added to the categories of assault and theft.
Tables B.3.1 and B.3.2 show the responses of the different countries to the
questions on the definition of criminal offences total. As can be seen from the
tables, most countries were able to follow the include / exclude rules.
With respect to data availability, all countries were able to provide data on the
total amount of offences. Less countries also had separate data available on major
traffic offences: Data were reported to be unavailable on police level in Albania,
Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Switzerland, UK: Nothern
Ireland and Scotland; on convictions level in Austria, Cyprus, Italy, and Ukraine.
Since such procedures do not exist in many European countries, only four
countries provided data on minor property offences subject to proceedings outside
the criminal justice system (Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania) and only two
countries (Bulgaria, Croatia) on minor violent offences subject to proceedings outside
the criminal justice system.