Focus on Women and Men

Accused – number of persons against whom a legal action was brought to trial (motion for punishment).

Sentenced – number of persons ruled guilty and sentenced by the court, when the sentence has come into effect already.

Prosecuted – number of persons against whom prosecution according to Section 160 of the Penal Act was discontinued.

Total prosecuted persons = persons prosecuted for other offences of violence, total, offences against morality, total, offences against property, total, other criminal acts, total, remaining criminality, total economic crimes, total and military acts and acts against constitutional system, total. Murders are one part of other offences of violence, total.

Accused – number of persons against whom a legal action was brought according to Section 176 of the Penal Act (after a trial is revised, an accused is called defendant).

Shortened proceedings – number of persons against whom shortened preparatory procedure was discontinued according to Section 179a of the Penal Act.

Proposed sentences – number of persons against whom a motion for punishment was filed with a court according to Section 179c of the Penal Act.

Offences against property – fraud, embezzlement, unjustified enjoyment of someone else's thing, concealment of a thing, damaging of someone else's thing, and other offences against property.

Murders, total – robbery with murder, sexual, motivated by personal relations, contract killings, infanticide committed by the mother and other murders.

Offences against morality – rapes, sexual abuses of dependant, other sexual abuses, commercial form of sexual abuses of dependant, commercial form of other sexual abuses, other sexual deviations, endangering of morality, endangering by sexual disease, grievous bodily harm by sexual disease, negligent bodily injury by sexual disease, pimping, intercourse of close relatives, human trafficking, and other offences against morality.

Sexual abuse of dependant – a crime, when somebody misuses dependence of a person younger than 18 years or a person commended to his/her supervision, forces such person to have intercourse out of marriage, or sexually abuses such a person in another way misusing his/her dependence.

Prison category – since 1 January 1994, the convicted have been put into 4 basic categories of prisons, which differ by the degree of external guarding, degree of security, and the way of implementing rehabilitation schemes.


Prison category: prisons are divided by way of external guarding and degree of security into four basic types as follows: guard and by security into four basic types.

These are

1. Open prison,
2. Prison under supervision,
3. Prison especially guarded,
4. Top security prison.

Within a prison, departments of various types can be established, provided that it will not endanger the purpose of a service of a sentence.