Public policy actors from the area of substantive-legal and procedural-legal criminal justice and the criminal-legal system need reliable and quality statistical indicators. Therefore, criminal justice statistics data are an important instrument for studying the structure of criminality, decision-making process of criminal prosecution bodies and are a useful tool for evaluating the functioning of the system, thereby influencing the prevention and suppression of crime.

In 2024, there were no significant changes compared to the previous year concerning the total number of judges, state attorneys and their deputies, and their sex distribution. The only thing to point out is that the number of lawyers increased by 61, of which 52.5% were women.


In 2024, state attorney’s offices in the Republic of Croatia decided upon crime reports for 49 606 adult perpetrators of criminal offences, which was 8.7% more than in 2023. The number of accused persons increased by 12.2% and the number of convicted persons by 12.0%, as compared to the previous year.

In 2024, a total of 1 268 juvenile perpetrators were reported, 337 of them were accused and 309 were convicted. Criminal offences against property were the most frequent offence, with 583 crime reports (46.0%) filled, followed by criminal offences against life and limb (12.7%) and personal freedom (11.2%).

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