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Social conditions, welfare and crime: Crime and justice
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Record prison numbers in 2016
When examining all types of sentences as a whole, 2016 was a record year for prison numbers.
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Record low reported offences in 2017
The police and prosecution authority registered 318 600 offences in 2017. This is the lowest number in the 25-year history of the statistics. However, there were more reports of sexual abuse against children.
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Crime among immigrants and children of immigrants in Norway
Reports 2017/36
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Crime and duration of residency among immigrants in Norway
Reports 2017/37
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More sentences served
More sentences were served in 2015 than the year before, both with electronic monitoring and in prison institutions. There were also more imprisonments of people aged 30 and over.
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Fewest offences solved since the 1990s
The police and the Prosecution authority completed the investigation of more than 319 000 offences in 2016, which is 3 per cent less than the year before. In numbers, there was a decline for both solved and unsolved offences, as well as the number...
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Fewer victims of theft, but more children exposed
A total of 149 000 persons were registered as victims of offences in 2016. With a continued decline in victims of theft, the total number of victims is the lowest in the 13 years of this type of statistics. However, more children are registered as...
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Fewer young people sanctioned in 2015
In 2015, there were 3 per cent fewer penal sanctions than in the previous year. The decrease in sanctions against young people continues, but persons aged between 15 and 24 are still overrepresented for many types of crimes.
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Fewer thefts and narcotic offences
In 2016, 336 500 offences were reported to the police. This was 4.3 per cent fewer than the year before, and a decline of as much as 9.6 per cent from 2014. If we factor in the population growth, this level of reported offences is by far the lowes...
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30 per cent of sentences served using electronic monitoring
Adult men with a Norwegian citizenship are most frequently imprisoned in Norway, but more than half of those in custody were non-Norwegian citizens. Although this is relatively similar to recent years, far more people are serving their prison sent...
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Smaller share are victims of violence and theft
In 2015, 9.8 per cent of the population reported that they had been the victim of one or more incidents of theft, damage to property, violence or threats of violence. This share of victims, both in total and for each type of crime, is smaller than...
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Prison inmates' living conditions 2014
Reports 2015/47
This report on living conditions among inmates in Norwegian prisons is based on a survey conducted in the autumn of 2014.
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Prison inmates' living conditions 2014
Reports 2015/47
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Minifacts about Norway 2015
The 2015 edition of Minifacts about Norway was the final edition.Minifacts about Norway presents key information about Norway in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
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Serving comunity sentence in Norway
Reports 2013/13
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