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. 106 THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN

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