Prosecutions, sentences and punishments

Official Statistics of Finland (OSF)
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These statistics contain data on the sentences issued and waived, and charges rejected by courts of first instance. In addition to the prosecutions at district courts and at courts of appeal acting as courts of first instance, the statistics also contain data on the summary penal fines imposed by the prosecutor and on petty fines imposed by the police, customs officials or frontier guard authorities. As a rule, a person is recorded in the statistics as many times as aforementioned decisions have been made about him or her. Another main mode of recording applied in these statistics is the so-called principal offence rule, according to which each defendant or convicted person is described by the most serious offence under the severest punishment decision category of the court.

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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Prosecutions, sentences and punishments [online publication].
ISSN=2343-1679. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [Referenced: 27.1.2025].
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