Footnotes

N.A.: Not applicable
b: As of 2024, a break in the series occurs for the offence category Offences against the Person due to the fact that some offences which concern domestic violence and fall under this category, have been upgraded from minor to serious. Consequently, the data for the offence category in question, referring to previous years, are not comparable.
1. The source of the data is the Cyprus Police.
2. The data refer to persons involved in the commission of offences in the year in question.
3. An offender who is involved in a serious offence more than once (on separate occasions) in one year, is counted as two or more persons (i.e. he or she is counted as a different offender in each separate case).
4. Up to the year 2020 (inclusive) a juvenile offender referred to a child under the age of 16 who was criminally responsible (according to the Juvenile Offenders' Law, Cap. 157). From the year 2021 onwards, a child in conflict with the law refers to a person who has not completed his/her eighteenth (18) year of life, who has committed a criminal offence or is considered suspect of committing a criminal offence (according to Law 55(I)/2021).