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Press release No. 501 of 30 November 2022 Criminal prosecution by the courts in 2021: convictions by final judgment down 5.3%
In 2021, the courts in Germany convicted approximately 662,100 defendants by final judgment. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was a decrease of roughly 37,200 defendants convicted, or 5.3%, compared with the previous year. …
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Press release No. 365 of 30 August 2022 4.9 million investigation proceedings completed by public prosecution offices in 2021
In 2021, the public prosecution offices completed approximately 4,880,000 criminal investigation proceedings. This was a decrease of 2.3% compared with a year earlier. Roughly 80% of the investigation proceedings were initiated by police stations and …
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Press release No. 592 of 21 December 2021 Criminal prosecution by the courts in 2020: convictions by final judgment down 4%
In 2020, the courts in Germany convicted approximately 699,300 defendants by final judgment. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was a decrease of roughly 29,600 defendants convicted, or 4.1%, compared with the previous …
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Press release No. 408 of 30 August 2021 5.0 million investigation proceedings completed by public prosecution offices in 2020
In 2020, the public prosecution offices in Germany completed 4,996,000 criminal investigation proceedings. The number of completed proceedings increased by 1.2% on a year earlier (4,939,000). The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the …
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Press release No. 429 of 29 October 2020 Criminal prosecution by the courts in 2019: convictions up 2.3% on 2018
In 2019, the criminal courts in Germany convicted approximately 728,900 defendants by final judgment. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the number of defendants convicted increased by roughly 16,500, or 2.3%, compared with …
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Press release No. 321 of 21 August 2020 4.9 million investigation proceedings by public prosecution offices in 2019
In 2019, the public prosecution offices in Germany completed roughly 4.9 million criminal investigation proceedings. This number was similar to the number of proceedings completed in 2018 (also about 4.9 million). Offences against property accounted …
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Press release No. 425 of 1 November 2019 Criminal prosecution in 2018: slight decrease in convictions by final judgment
In 2018, the courts in Germany convicted roughly 712,300 defendants by final judgment, according to provisional results of the criminal statistics of the courts. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was a decrease of …
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Press release No. 317 of 22 August 2019 4.9 million investigation proceedings by public prosecution offices in 2018
In 2018, the public prosecution offices in Germany completed 4.9 million criminal investigation proceedings. This was an increase of approximately 81,000, or 1.7%, compared with 2017. Most of the investigation proceedings (81.6%) were forwarded to …
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Press release No. 463 of 28 November 2018 2017: number of defendants convicted down 3% year on year
In 2017, the courts in Germany convicted approximately 716,000 defendants by final judgment. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was a decrease of roughly 21,800 people, or 3.0%, compared with the previous year. The …
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Press release No. 369 of 27 September 2018 In 2017 public prosecution offices completed 4.9 million criminal investigation proceedings
As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) 4.9 million criminal investigation proceedings were completed by public prosecution offices in Germany in 2017. This was a decrease of 6.2% on 2016 (about 5.2 million proceedings).
