Accused persons and persons convicted over the period 2013 – 2023 for drug-related crimes (Art. 354a – 354c of the Penal Code)

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Accused persons over the period 2013 – 2023 for drug-related crimes (Art. 354a – 354c of the Penal Code)

	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Number of accused persons for drug-related crimes	1661	1499	1604	1938	2025	1996	2365	2356	2795	2444	2909
with proceeding finished with:
sentence	647	578	688	867	914	898	1149	1208	1401	1230	1540
conditional sentence	844	810	882	1039	1077	1065	1194	1119	1352	1183	1329
acquittal	55	40	32	30	29	27	20	24	37	28	39
suspension	1		1	1	5	6	2	4	5	3	1
release from penalty	114	71	1	1				1

Persons convicted over the period 2013 – 2023 for drug-related crimes (Art. 354a – 354c of the Penal Code)

	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Number of persons convicted (total)	34113	31849	27787	28301	25800	23973	23389	21889	24121	24047	23037
Number of persons convicted for drug-related crimes	1661	1499	1604	1938	2025	1996	2365	2356	2795	2444	2869
proportion (%) to the number of persons convicted (total)	4.37	4.36	5.65	6.73	7.72	8.19	10.02	10.63	11.41	10.03	12.45
for one crime	1302	1215	1390	1712	1667	1702	2036	2012	2407	2065	2441
for two crimes	155	145	155	170	273	231	251	266	288	305	369
for three or more crimes	34	28	25	24	51	30	56	49	58	43	59
sex
males	1383	1299	1422	1774	1849	1806	2189	2146	2531	2215	2632
females	108	89	148	132	142	157	154	181	222	198	237
age
14-17 years old	49	55	56	60	55	77	89	76	68	73	68
18-24 years old	535	467	490	596	588	603	660	594	745	596	651
25-29 years old	360	335	367	468	492	462	512	484	546	450	512
30-39 years old	359	332	402	525	587	561	721	721	970	876	1068
40-49 years old	105	97	158	156	166	174	252	267	302	308	421
50-59 years old	39	56	55	51	62	50	80	85	77	79	115
60 and over years old	44	46	42	50	41	36	29	38	45	31	34
unspecified								62