Annual Report 2012: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism
III.2. Centers for Juvenile Offenders
In 2011 17,039 final
judgments were entered in
the Central Registry of
Criminal Liability
Judgments against Minors
132. According to a study carried out by Spain’s National Statistics Institute (ab
breviated as INE in Spanish) published in September 2012, in 2011 a total of
17,039 final judgments were entered in the Central Registry of Criminal Liability
Judgments against Minors (Registro de Sentencias de Responsabilidad Penal de los
Menores), entailing a 6.6% decrease in respect to 2010. The number of minors
between the ages of 14 and 17 per 1,000 inhabitants in the same age range that
were convicted was 9.72, compared to 10.22 in 2010. By sex male minors commit
ted 85.1% of the infractions and females 14.9%.
In 2011 judges adopted 23,718 legal measures, which entailed a decrease of 5.4%
in respect to the previous year.
Legal measures imposed
on minors in 2011
133. The tables which appear below refer to the measures imposed by the courts
on juvenile offenders on the basis of national and regional data for 2011 con
tained in the last statistics published by the Spanish National Statistics Institute.
The following graph presents in greater detail the different regimes of custodial
measures that affect the right to liberty.
Figure 5. Type of legal measures imposed on minors in 2011
0.7%
11.8%
0.6%
2.5%
0.5%
12.4%
1.6%
0.7%
6.1%
4.7%
1.8%
21.3%
0.7%
34.8%
open
closed
semi-open
therapeutic
attending a day center
warning
living with another person, family or educational group
probation
restraining order regarding the victim
community service
weekend detention
banned from driving
socio-educational schemes
outpatient treatment
Source: In-house compilation based on data taken by the National Statistics Institute from the Central
Registry of Criminal Liability Judgments against Minors.
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