Criminal Record in Russia in 2013–2022: General Characteristics and Features of Acts Committed, Perpetrators and Assigned Enforcement Actions

The paper, based on criminal record data for the period from 2013 to 2022, identifies and interprets certain patterns in the development of the crime situation in Russia over the specified period. Attention is drawn to the increase in the number of people brought to justice since 2020 (by 48 thousand people as of 2022), as well as the growth in the proportion of those convicted of serious and especially serious crimes in the total number of convicts (especially for the period 2018–2022); significant changes in the number of those convicted of crimes against traffic safety and transport operation: a fourfold increase in the number of convicts (by 48.6 thousand), which, taking into account the overall decrease in the number of convicts, led to an increase in the proportion of such convicts in the total number from 2.1 to 11.1 %; an increase in the proportion of juvenile convicts raised in a complete family (4.5 %), and a proportionate decrease in juvenile convicts raised outside the family; an increase in the proportion of previously convicted persons brought to justice from 34 % in 2013 to 38.5 % in 2022; high efficiency of the application of the institutions of parole and suspended sentence; the continuing acute problem of the number of persons who committed a crime while intoxicated (the proportion in 2022 was 25.2 %); a significant increase in the number of applications for property confiscation (4,195 in 2022; an increase in the proportion from 0.1 to 0.7 % of the total number of measures applied); an increase in the proportion of the type of punishment in the form of deprivation of the right to hold certain positions and engage in certain activities in the total number of measures applied (from 1.7 to 12.2 %).

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