10622: Sanctions, by type of principal offence, type of sanction, contents and year

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
	Penal sanctions
¬¬ Other transport and traffic legislation
All types of sanctions	284	332	301	1 590	1 141	1 635	1 649	907
Conditional waiver of prosecution	15	7	6	9	21	20	7	8
On the spot fine	0	0	0	1 346	936	1 420	1 397	662
Ticket fine	259	305	288	229	181	187	236	232
Fine	10	20	6	3	3	4	7	4
Community sentence	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Conditional imprisonment	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	1
Unconditional imprisonment	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	0
Special sanction or other type of sanction	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Fixed start time point 2016 and all newer time periods

Footnotes

The statistics includes sanctions against persons and enterprises. The types of sanctions which usually are issued enterprises are fine, fines given by the courts or prosecutions conditionally dropped. The number of enterprises can from 2011 be identified in the category unknown age and sex in statistics for these types of sanctions. See table 10623. The years 1997-2001 are only published with standard for principal offence before the new penal code (group of offence -2014 and type of offence -2014).
The older type of sanction community service was replaced by community sanction in 2002. The category community service also includes community service.
The older special sanction security detention was in 2002 replaced with preventive detention, compulsory mental health care and compulsory care. Security detention in combination with unconditional imprisonment is placed in the category unconditional imprisonment, while security detention alone is placed in the category other type of sanction. From year 2019, on the spot fines for maritime conditions (småbåtloven § 42) are included in the statistics. All such on the spot fines are categorized under the type of principal offense «Other transport and traffic legislation» in the group of offense «traffic offenses». The figures for penal sanctions in 2019 have been corrected on 6 March 2022. The change resulted in 9 fewer sanctions, of which 4 fewer sentences to compulsory mental health care for murder or attempted murder.

year

2016

The figures for penal sanctions in 2016 have been corrected on 28 October 2024. The change resulted in 6 more sanctions, of which 3 were sentences to preventive detention, and 3 were sentences to compulsory mental health care.

2019

The figures for penal sanctions in 2019 have been corrected on 25 October 2024. The change resulted in 25 more sanctions, of which 4 were sentences to preventive detention for murder, grievous bodily harm and aggravated rape.

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