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 Proportion of defendants convicted (%) in country courts of law
Characteristic Description
Name Proportion of defendants convicted (%) in country courts of law; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Directorate General for Justice Policy
First available period 1990
Last available period 2024
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
Concepts
  • SENTENCED:  A person that has been sentenced to imprisonment or subject to any security measures to restrict freedom, to pay a monetary fine or against whom any other non-detaining penalty has been imposed.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • DEFENDANT:  The person against whom a lawsuit is filed or an enquiry is requested in a criminal proceeding and who, according to the law, shall or may be prosecuted, due to a strong suspicion of having committed a sufficiently proven infringement.
  • COURT OF LAW:  Sovereign body empowered to ensure the safeguard of the legally protected rights and interests of citizens, to suppress breaches of legality, and to solve public and private disputes.
Formule (Number of convicted/ Number of defendants)*100
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 31/10/2025


information presented in 2/11/2025