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In the course of last year 9,800 persons were put into prison in Norway. Nearly one-third of the incarcerations were remands, nearly two-thirds were custodial sentences and seven per cent were related to non-payment of fines. A number of persons were incarcerated several times in the course of the year, bringing the total number of incarcerations to 10,600.
In one of three cases, the incarceration concerned ordinary crimes for profit such as theft and less serious embezzlement and fraud. The next largest categories were traffic offences, which is behind 25 per cent of the incarcerations, narcotics crime (16 per cent) and violent crime (15 per cent). Imprisonment for economic crime accounted for five per cent of all incarcerations and incarcerations for sex crimes nearly two per cent.
Short stays for traffic offences
Incarcerations for traffic crimes are of relatively short duration. The statistics show that only five per cent of the 2,050 imprisoned at the beginning of the year were incarcerated for traffic crimes, while 25 per cent of the incarcerations concerned this type of offense. The opposite was the case for drug crimes. All of 30 per cent of those incarcerated at the turn of the year were doing time for narcotics crimes, although such crimes were the cause of 16 per cent of the incarcerations.
Weekly Bulletin issue no. 26, 1998