Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2014 /Statistical Report 13/20141 Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2014 Aune Flinck, Tuula Kuoppala and Salla Säkkinen

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2014 /Statistical Report 13/20152 Criminal and civil cases referred to mediation 2007–2014 Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2014 /Statistical Report 13/20153 Criminal cases extracted from mediation referrals by offence category as well as proportion of civil cases in 2013 and 2014, % Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report *) 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.

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2014 /Statistical Report 13/20154 Criminal cases extracted from mediation referrals by offence category as well as number of civil cases in 2006–2014 Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report *) 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.

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2014 /Statistical Report 13/20155 Mediation referrals for selected criminal cases as a proportion of all crimes solved by the police in 2014, % Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report & Statistics on offences and coercive measures. OSF. Statistics Finland

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2014 /Statistical Report 13/20156 Criminal and civil cases extracted from mediation referrals per mediator 2007–2014 Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2014 /Statistical Report 13/20157 Suspected offenders and complainants/injured parties in criminal and civil cases referred to mediation in 2014 per thousand persons of the same age Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2014 /Statistical Report 13/20158 Suspected offenders and complainants/injured parties by sex, including legal persons in 2014 Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report *) DVC = of which domestic violence cases

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2014 /Statistical Report 13/20159 Age distribution of suspected offenders in mediated criminal and civil cases, 2007–2014, % Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2014 /Statistical Report 13/ Age distribution of offenders in crimes under the Criminal Code recorded by the police and suspected offenders referred to mediation, 2014, % Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report & Source: Statistics on offences and coercive measures. OSF. Statistics Finland.

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2014 /Statistical Report 13/ Domestic violence cases as a percentage of all civil and criminal cases referred to mediation, by regional state administrative agency, 2013 and 2014, % Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2014 /Statistical Report 13/ Monetary value of compensations in mediated criminal and civil cases, by regional state administrative agency in , € Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2014 /Statistical Report 13/ Comparison by regional state administrative agencies 2014 Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report & Source: Statistics on offences and coercive measures. OSF. Statistics Finland

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2014 /Statistical Report 13/ Number of criminal and civil cases and number of mediators by regional state administrative agency in 2014 Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2014 /Statistical Report 13/ Mediation referrals and the criminal, domestic violence and civil cases extracted from them, by regional state administrative agency, 2007–2014 Source: THL, Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases – Statistical Report

Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2014 /Statistical Report 13/ Mediation in Criminal and Civil Cases 2014 A total of criminal and civil cases were referred to mediation in The number of criminal and civil cases referred to mediation decreased by 1.3 per cent on Violent crimes accounted for about half of all criminal and civil cases referred to mediation. Domestic violence cases accounted for 16 per cent of all criminal and civil cases referred to mediation. Thirty-eight per cent of suspected offenders were aged under 21. Ten per cent of suspected offenders were aged under 15. The combined value of monetary compensations recorded in the agreements reached as a result of mediation amounted to EUR 1.7 million in The monetary value of work compensations was EUR Statistical report 13/2014