Convictions (statistics from the national criminal record)

The data on convictions comes from the national criminal record, which is a rich source of information. Its exploitation makes it possible to describe convictions by nature of offence, sentence but also to provide demographic information on the convicted profile. The study of convictions does not give a complete picture of the judicial response to crime. Indeed, the data relate only to convicted persons. Other criminal responses can be provided, such as the criminal composition, which mainly applies to road disputes (70,000 criminal compositions in 2013).