Recidivism
How many people commit further offences after having been convicted of an offence? The statistics show the tendency to relapse into crime, also called recidivism. More specifically, people who have been released from prison or been given a conviction in the course of a given year and who commit another offence within two years.
Selected statistics on Recidivism
Duration until relapsing into crime
A number of Statistics Denmark's criminal statistical registers (decisions, charges and admissions to prisons). Data to this registers originate from the Central Criminal Register operated by the National Commissioner of the Danish Police. Furthermore data from Statistics Denmark's register of the population's highest level of education and Statistics Denmark's Register of Population Statistics.
On the statistics – documentation, sources and method
See the documentation of statistics to learn more:
The purpose of Recidivism is to analyze the extent of new criminality among persons who have been released after serving in jail or have received a guilty decision during a calendar year.
The statistics on Recidivism was made up the first time for persons released or convicted in 2007 and has hereafter been produced annually.