Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015 Aune Flinck and Tuula Kuoppala 21.6.2016 Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016 Criminal and civil cases referred to mediation 2007–2015 Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report 21.6.2016 Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016 Criminal cases extracted from mediation referrals by offence category as well as proportion of civil cases in 2014 and 2015, % *) Property crimes include theft, fraud, embezzlement and unauthorised use. **) Only homicide and bodily injury offences can be recorded as domestic violence cases in the mediation statistics. For example, defamation offences committed in close relationships are not included in the statistics. ***) Violent crimes include petty assault, assault, aggravated assault, and robbery. Violent crimes committed in close relationships are presented separately in the Figure under domestic violence. Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report 21.6.2016 Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016 Criminal cases extracted from mediation referrals by offence category as well as number of civil cases in 2006–2015 *) The national statistics on mediation in criminal and civil cases begin from 1 June 2006, when the Act on Conciliation in Criminal and Certain Civil Cases entered into force. Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report 21.6.2016 Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016 Mediation referrals for selected criminal cases as a proportion of all crimes solved by the police in 2014-2015, % Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report & Statistics on offences and coercive measures. OSF. Statistics Finland 21.6.2016 Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016 Suspected offenders and complainants/injured parties in criminal and civil cases referred to mediation in 2015 per thousand persons of the same age Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report 21.6.2016 Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016 Suspected offenders and complainants/injured parties by sex, including legal persons in 2015 *) DVC = of which domestic violence cases Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report 21.6.2016 Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016 Age distribution of suspected offenders in mediated criminal and civil cases, 2007–2015, % Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report 21.6.2016 Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016 Age distribution of offenders in crimes under the Criminal Code recorded by the police and suspected offenders referred to mediation, 2015, % Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report & Source: Statistics on offences and coercive measures. OSF. Statistics Finland. 21.6.2016 Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016 Domestic violence cases as a percentage of all civil and criminal cases referred to mediation, by regional state administrative agency, 2014 and 2015, % Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report 21.6.2016 Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016 Monetary value of compensations in mediated criminal and civil cases, by regional state administrative agency in 2007-2015, € Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report 21.6.2016 Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016 Comparison by regional state administrative agencies 2015 *) Includes all persons aged 15 and over on 31.12.2014 by region. 15 is the age limit for criminal liability in Finland. **) Includes also all civil cases referred to mediation. Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report and Statistics on offences and coercive measures. OSF. Statistics Finland 21.6.2016 Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016 The divison of the volunteer criminal and civil case mediators by age, 2015 Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report and The volunteer criminal and civil case mediators. THL 21.6.2016 Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016 Criminal and civil cases extracted from mediation referrals per mediator 2007–2015 Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report 21.6.2016 Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016

Comparison by operating areas 2015 *) Includes all persons aged 15 and over on 31.12.2015 by region. 15 is the age limit for criminal liability in Finland **) The price of a mediation process consists of the total costs of an operating area divided by the number of mediation cases Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report 21.6.2016 Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016 Mediation referrals and the criminal, domestic violence and civil cases extracted from them, by regional state administrative agency, 2007–2015 Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report 21.6.2016 Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016 A total of 12 523 criminal and civil cases were referred to mediation in 2015. The number of criminal and civil cases referred to mediation increased by 9.5 per cent on 2014. Violent crimes accounted for 52 per cent of all criminal and civil cases referred to mediation. Domestic violence cases accounted for 18 per cent of all criminal and civil cases referred to mediation. The average cost to the society caused by the processing of a criminal and civil case referred to mediation in 2015 was 522,40 €. Thirty-six per cent of suspected offenders were aged under 21. Eleven per cent of suspected offenders were aged under 15. www.thl.fi/statistics/mediationincriminalcases Statistical report 12/2016 21.6.2016 Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2015/Statistical Report 12/2016