Criminal Sanctions and Recidivism

Re­con­vic­tions are in­vest­ig­ated for all per­sons ju­di­cially con­victed in Ger­many. In­form­a­tion is col­lec­ted on the type of of­fense, the type and amount of sanc­tion, pos­sible pre­vi­ous con­vic­tions, the re­gion in which the of­fense took place, and so­cio-demo­graph­ic char­ac­ter­ist­ics of the of­fend­er such as age and gender. The study based on data from the Federal Register of Criminal Records (Bundeszentralregister) aims to establish a permanent reconviction statistics for Germany.