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Statistics on convictions and reconvictions

Convictions
2022
26 442
Gone up +3,2 % compared to 2021
Convicts
2022
24 466
Gone up +3,1 % compared to 2021
Reconviction rate
2022
31,1 %
Sunk -0,1 percentage points compared to 2021

Judicial crime statistics provide information about the final convictions handed down by Austrian courts in accordance with the Austrian Criminal Code and supplementary criminal laws. The statistics on convictions encompass three different data levels: convicted persons, convictions and (since the reporting year 2012) all offences included in the verdicts. Statistics on reconvictions are based on persons convicted (except for unconditional prison sentences) or released from prison during a given base year; the statistics show how many of these persons were convicted again during an observation period of four years.

Because they are derived from the criminal records file, Judicial crime statistics cannot provide information about judicial outcomes other than convictions, or any information about victims of crime. Statistics on crime victims are available from Police crime statistics (statistics on police reports).

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Judicial Crime Statistics 2022. Compiled on 07.06.2023. – Total: 43 494 offences.

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Judicial Crime Statistics 2022. Compiled on 11.01.2024.

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Judicial Crime Statistics 2022. Compiled on 07.06.2023. – Sanctions partially on probation were introduced in 1988.

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Reconviction Statistics 2022. Compiled on 07.06.2023. – Legally effective reconvictions within four years after the base event in the year 2018. The base event is either the release from prison or institutional confinement, or the legally effective conviction to something other than unconditional prison or institutional confinement. – Age at the time of the offence: Juveniles: 14 to 17 years old; young adults: 18 to 20 years old; adults: 21 years and older.

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