22   Recidivism in the five-year period 1996-2000 among persons charged in 1995, by police decision and group of offence1 in 1995
Group of offence Total Police decision
Prosecution dropped, the offender under 15 years of age Prosecution dropped, the offender not liable Prose-cution dropped for other reasons Transferred to Conflict Council Prosecution conditionally dropped Ticket fine Commited for trial
All persons charged 64 965 2 862 889 6 173 1 970 506    35 077    17 488
With recidivism 27 530 1 376 206 2 748 951 175 12 775 9 299
                 
Crimes 24 255 1 526 557 1 890 1 407 255 7 425 11 195
With recidivism 13 357 897 170 1 115 783 108 3 517 6 767
Misdemenours 40 710 1 336 332 4 283 563 251 27 652 6 293
With recidivism 14 173 479 36 1 633 168 67 9 258 2 532
                 
Group of offence                
Economic offences 2 345 4 41 269 6 9 927 1 089
With recidivism 616 4 7 70 1 - 203 331
                 
Other offences for profit 16 696 1 582 208 2 727 1 298 199 5 435 5 247
With recidivism 8 999 799 53 1 425 630 92 2 334 3 666
                 
Offences of violence 4 484 224 204 267 163 36 1 233 2 357
With recidivism 2 370 144 69 142 70 12 548 1 385
               
Sexual offences 639 34 35 92 - 11 157 310
With recidivism 184 18 11 16 - 2 48 89
                 
Offences of narcotics 3 668 15 38 234 1 13 1 653 1 714
With recidivism 2 164 9 12 159 1 9 909 1 065
                 
Damage to property 1 874 427 46 115 412 12 670 192
With recidivism 964 186 23 75 213 3 362 102
                 
Environment offences 1 146 7 10 120 1 21 836 151
With recidivism 219 2 1 24 1 4 146 41
                 
Work environment offences 58 - - 18 - 1 36 3
With recidivism 8 - - 2 - - 5 1
               
Traffic offences 23 524 241 185 1 190 12 97 16 748 5 051
With recidivism 8 201 103 8 455 7 28 5 522 2 078
                 
Other offences 10 531 328 122 1 141 77 107 7 382 1 374
Med tilbakefall 3 805 111 22 380 28 25 2 698 541
1  If more than one offence, group of offence is defined by the principal offence.

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