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Developing new statistics describing the criminal justice process

This article explores the development of new statistics in Sweden, describing the criminal justice process and highlighting examples of the new statistical data. It discusses the need for standardized information exchange and better foundations for knowledge and analysis within the criminal justice system. The article also discusses future plans for developing new indicators and including data from more authorities.

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Developing new statistics describing the criminal justice process

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  1. Developing new statistics describing the criminal justice process Fredrik Granström, The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå)

  2. Agenda • Background • The criminal justice process in Sweden • Examples from the new statistics • Next step Fredrik Granström, The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå)

  3. Crime statistics in Sweden • Since 1995, Brå is responsible for the official crime statistics. • Data on the criminal justice process have historically been registered at each authority involved, in their own format. • Each type of the official statistics describes a specific part of the process, with no logical connection between the parts. • Therefore, some questions have not been possible to answer. (e.g. Of all registered offences during a specific period, how many were brought to court?, Were the offences processed in a timely manner by the authorities?) Fredrik Granström, The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå)

  4. Crime statistics in Sweden • A decade ago, the Swedish government instructed the authorities to develop a digitalized and standardized information exchange system related to the management of criminal offences, a project called RIF. • The purpose was to create better foundations for knowledge, analysis and follow-up within the criminal justice system. • In 2013, the first stage of RIF was launched, including the Police, the Prosecution authority and the Economic crime authority. • After that, Brå started working on transforming the unstructured RIF transaction data into customized data suitable for producing statistical tables. Fredrik Granström, The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå)

  5. The criminal justice process in Sweden Decision made in relation tooffences *A crimesuspect is the linkbetween the offence and a person suspectedof the offence. Investigat. initiated Investigation discontinued Dismissed Registered offences Decision made in relation tosuspectssubjecttoreasonablesuspicion Can be suspected Decision by prosecutor Investigat. initiated Investigat. completed Registered crimesuspects* Legal proc. No procec. Investigationdiscontinued Dismissed Fredrik Granström, The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå)

  6. Results from the criminal justice process in Sweden Note: Onlycrimesuspectssubjectto at leastreasonablesuspicionareincluded in the results Fredrik Granström, The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå)

  7. Crime suspects in Sweden in 2018 by status on December 31th Note: Onlycrimesuspectssubjectto at leastreasonablesuspicionareincluded in the results Fredrik Granström, The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå)

  8. Number of suspects in balance in 2016–2018 Fredrik Granström, The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå)

  9. Processing times for crime suspects 2017 Medium numberofdays (quartiles in parantheses) Fredrik Granström, The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå)

  10. Future work • Develop new indicators in order to facilitate the interpretation of the results • Include data from more authorities (primarily from the courts) Contact e-post: fredrik.granstrom@bra.se website: https://www.bra.se/statistik/brottmalsprocessen.html Fredrik Granström, The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå)

  11. Thankyou! Fredrik Granström, The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå)

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