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The highest were the fines for economic crime and working environment violations, which averaged NOK 11,400 and 17,000 respectively. The vast majority and lowest fines were for traffic violations. Nearly 90 per cent of all fines concerned speeding or other traffic violations. The average fine in traffic cases in general was NOK 1,760 and NOK 1,220 in speeding cases. Speeding violations alone put NOK 181 million into the public coffers last year, of which NOK 37 million was paid by drivers caught speeding by photo radar devices.
Altogether NOK 360 million in fines and judgments were handed down in Norway last year according to preliminary figures, which also show that the average fine was NOK 1,950.
Altogether 184,000 persons were found guilty of violating the law and were punished last year in Norway. This works out to 52 persons per 1,000 residents over the age of legal responsibility, which is 15. Young people under the age of 20 accounted for eight per cent of offenders. People aged 20-29 made up one-third, while 50 year olds and up accounted for one-fifth. Twenty-four year olds figured the most prominently in the statistics, with 90 offenders per 1,000 24-year-olds in the population. Women made up 16 per cent, and eight per cent of offenders were foreign nationals, half of whom were from other Nordic countries.
Altogether 25,000 persons were convicted two or more times in the course of the year, and the total number of sanctions was 210,000.
Weekly Bulletin issue no. 24, 1998