Convictions

The annual figures for adult and juvenile convictions. Detailed information is available on the laws and the individual offences.

In addition information has been available on the laws and individual offences in time series since 1999 for minors and since 1984 for adults. This statistical information is shown at national and in almost all cases also at cantonal level.

Convictions 2017 - 2018

	Minors1		Adults2
	2017	2018	2017	2018
Total	13 721	13 787	107 987	107 085
SCC	7 893	8 452	35 291	33 724
Homicide	1	5	118	102
Grievous bodily harm	34	41	244	177
Simple theft	2 552	2 745	7 152	6 796
Robbery	180	203	401	333
RTA	1 196	1 229	56 549	57 023
Serious violation of road traffic regulations	75	79	22 843	21 967
Certified serious violation of road traffic regulations	7	6	410	419
Driving while incapacitated	105	111	15 405	15 442
NarcA drug dealing	822	870	6 523	5 761
NarcA consumption	5 523	5 029	*	*
FNA	545	538	17 367	18 047

¹ For juvenile convictions, felonies, misdemeanours and contraventions are taken into account.
² For adults, only felonies and misdemeanours are included, because contraventions are only recorded in the register of convictions as an exception.


SCC: Swiss Criminal Code
RTA: Road Traffic Act
NarcA: Narcotics Act
FNA: Foreign Nationals Act Sources:
Statistics on criminal conviction of minors (JUSUS), state of the database: 24.05.2019
Criminal conviction statistics (SUS), state of the Register of Criminal Conduct: 20.05.2019

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Historical data

Historical data on minors and adults 1946-1984

The Federal Statistical Office's collection of data on the convictions of minors and adults is based on extracts from the centrally managed register of convictions. This statistic has been compiled since 1946, and partially with data from 1936. For the years prior to 1948, statistical results are available in the form of tables, copies of which can be consulted or downloaded.

The continuation of the historical time series for minors can be found for the years 1984-1998 under "Historical data, minors, 1984-1998".

Detailed data on the convictions of minors from 1999 onwards are available on the Swiss Statistics website. Detailed conviction figures for adults are available for the years from 1984 onwards.

The historical conviction data cannot be compared with one another nor with data from the current data collection. Data must first be harmonised and aligned with population data.

Publication to be downloaded in german

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Statistics of criminality in Switzerland in german / french

Historical data on minors 1985-1998

The information published by the Federal Statistical Office on the criminal judgements of minors is based on three statistical surveys, each one different in the way it collects and compiles data and also in how data is used and presented. Data from the first survey is contained in tables relating to criminal judgements of minors and adults passed between 1946 (partly from 1936) and 1984.

These tables were compiled on the basis of records in the criminal register. Since 1971, criminal judgements of minors have no longer been automatically recorded in the criminal register; the decision was made to discontinue this first survey. The second survey consists of aggregated data collected between 1984 and 1998. The third comes from data used in the current statistics on criminal judgements of minors. This survey has existed since 1999 and is now published with the adult convictions.

The data on the criminal judgements of minors shown below cannot be compared directly with data from the other surveys. Data must first be harmonised (see document on metadata) and then correlated with data from the corresponding age groups.
 
The publication on the evolution of the juvenile delinquency and pdf files are available in german or in french:

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Criminal conviction of minors in german / french

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