Delinquency
The police registered a total of 553,421 criminal offences in 2009, including 51 killings and 185 attempted murders. There were 666 cases of rape. In the same year, 94,574 adults (85% of them male, 47.4% of them Swiss citizens) were convicted under criminal law. 57.3% of convictions were for traffic offences.
In the same year, 15,064 minors (78.3% of them male, 68.2% of them of Swiss nationality, 76.3% aged between 15 and 18) were convicted.
The number of convictions in the last five years is given in the following table. Each class of crime references the relevant section of the Swiss penal code (Strafgesetzbuch, abbreviated StGB) or the Swiss traffic laws (Strassenverkehrsgesetz, abbr. SVG).
| Year | Total Convictions | Homicide |
Serious Bodily Injury |
Minor Bodily Injury |
Sexual Contact with Children |
Rape |
Theft |
Robbery |
Receiving Stolen Goods |
Embezzlement |
Fraud |
Narcotics Possession | Major Violation of Traffic Laws |
Drunk Driving |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 85,605 | 93 | 94 | 2,459 | 413 | 109 | 6,557 | 489 | 1,262 | 910 | 1,484 | 2,846 | 22,163 | 15,776 |
| 2006 | 90,592 | 95 | 105 | 2,523 | 382 | 131 | 6,569 | 553 | 1,196 | 880 | 1,521 | 2,616 | 21,599 | 18,439 |
| 2007 | 84,665 | 93 | 88 | 2,248 | 380 | 135 | 5,979 | 522 | 922 | 807 | 1,607 | 2,462 | 21,431 | 17,355 |
| 2008 | 93,024 | 95 | 133 | 2,635 | 415 | 133 | 6,345 | 522 | 905 | 848 | 1,665 | 2,606 | 25,339 | 17,836 |
| 2009 | 94,574 | 84 | 118 | 2,578 | 366 | 108 | 6,947 | 514 | 924 | 820 | 1,506 | 2,708 | 25,434 | 16,708 |
Read more about this topic: Demographics Of Switzerland
Famous quotes containing the word delinquency:
“The authoritarian child-rearing style so often found in working-class families stems in part from the fact that parents see around them so many young people whose lives are touched by the pain and delinquency that so often accompanies a life of poverty. Therefore, these parents live in fear for their children’s future—fear that they’ll lose control, that the children will wind up on the streets or, worse yet, in jail.”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)