• Juvenile crime suspect numbers recorded by police Germany 1991-2021

In 2021, the German police had almost 155 thousand juvenile crime suspects. This was less than the previous year, at almost 163 thousand suspects.

Number of juvenile crime suspects recorded by police in Germany from 1991 to 2021 (in 1,000)

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Release date

April 2022

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Region

Germany

Survey time period

1991 to 2021

Age group

14-18 years

Special properties

Adolescents; baseline statistic

Supplementary notes

Figures displayed for respective years refer to crimes which became known to and were processed by police, including attempts threatened with a penalty and drug-related offences processed by customs. Statistical records follows submissions to the prosecutor’s office (baseline statistic).

Due to the transition to an individual dataset, in 2009 a first-time „authentic” crime suspect count was possible in Germany on a national level. This means that crime suspects who were conspicuous in several German states during the period of evaluation were recorded only once in national datasets. Up until and including 2008, this was only possible at state level due to aggregated data tables from states being delivered to the Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt). This led to overcounting on a national level. Therefore, from 2009 onwards, crime suspect numbers are no longer comparable to previous years.

It is noted that the data in this statistic is based on crime statistics recorded by the police and cannot include the results of criminal proceedings.
Figures have been rounded for better understanding of the statistic.