Crime, criminal justice

The data and publications recently released - in French and German - concerned the following subject matters: 

• Prison and community sanctions - July 2010
  New data on people serving prison terms and community sanctions
  New data on recidivism after release from prison
  
  
• Police crime statistics 2009 - March 2010
  On 22.03.2010, Switzerland opens a new chapter on police crime statistics (PCS). Over the past four years, the Federal Statistical Office has completeley updated the PCS. It closes long-standing information gaps and makes new data available. As a result of the new variables and the standardisations, comparison of the results available for 2009 with previous years is not yet possible or only to a limited extent.
  
• Prison statistics (January 2010)
  On 2  September 2009, Switzerland had 6683 places of detention and 6084 inmates. Time series over the last century document that Switzerland had in 1893 6668 places of detention or 218 places for 100'000 persons of the Swiss population, whereas the figure for 2009 was 87 for 100'000 persons of the population.
  
• Justice statistics (October 2009)
  The first data on the important reduction on prison terms, from close to 50'000 to some 10'000, of which 7000 are unsuspended. Today, 90% of all sanctions imposed are monetary penalties.
  
• Crime victim support (June 2009)
  Crime victim support case load stabilizes with close to 30'000 cases in which victims or related persons received support. In 54% of the cases, there was a family relationship between victime and presumed author of the offence. There were 1140 cases of financial support submitted to the competent authorities. In total, more than 9 million Swiss Francs of financial support were given to crime victims.
  
• Recidivism rates (May 2009
  22% of all sentences juveniles and adults are again sentenced in the time frame of 3 years. The chapter on Indicators/data provides a great number of recidivism tables as from 1984 for adult sentenced, as from 1999 for juveniles having been sentenced, and for people freed from prisons.
  
• Drug related delinquency (Sepember 2008)
  51% of all police drug reports relate only to consomption of cannabis products; reduction of cannabis use among people aged 24 and less
• Road Traffic Delinquency (August 2008)
  More than half of all questioned motor vehicle drivers admit driving while using a cell phone. For two thirds of these repondents to detailed questions on traffic behaviour using a cell phone while driving is not a serious offence. (more in German and French)
  
• Homicides among intimate partners (March 2008)
  On average, 26 persons are killed annually by former or actual partners (homicides with fatal issue annually: 80 or 1.1 for 100'000 inhabitants).
• Indeterminate detention (November 2007)
  On average, courts annually sentence some 14 offenders to an indeterminate period of detention, linked to therapeutic treatment.
• Juvenile delinquency from 1946 until 2004 (September 2007)
  The increase in the rate of penal decisions for juveniles over the last 60 years indicates an intensified use of the criminal law for the control of juveniles. All publications issued between 1946 and 1984 are available on the SFSO-website.