The section contains data on the situation with crimes and convictions including separate types of most hazardous and widely spread crimes. Information on persons exposed as criminals or offenders. Their number and composition by age group, the distribution of convicts by main penalties are presented.

Information is presented according to data submitted by the Ministry of Interior and the Legal Department at the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

Recorded crime is a dangerous for the society action stipulated by the criminal legislation, revealed and registered by internal affairs bodies.

The number of condemned includes persons for whom the sentences have been passed by courts and came into effect.