Minors

The Public Prosecutor's Office is responsible for reform and protection of minors.
In the area of reform, the nature of the offences that have been the subject of proceedings, the sentences handed down and the proceedings handled by the Public Prosecutor's Offices are described.
In the area of protection, information is given on the different types of cases in which this protective work is carried out, as well as the visits that are made to protection centres.

1.Thematic:
Sectoral information.

2.Indicators:
- Infringements: the offences committed are grouped together as crimes and misdemeanours. Within the former, these are grouped according to the major typologies and, within each typology, the presence of specific offences can be observed.
- Sentences: the information comes from the records of the Public Prosecutor's Offices (notified sentences). Proceedings (reform proceedings) in which an accusation is made (allegations) regarding the possible commission of an offence by a minor, culminating in a sentence handed down by the juvenile court. These are dealt with according to whether they are acquittals or convictions and, within the latter, a distinction is made as to whether they have been reached by agreement of the minor or not.
- Proceedings and dossiers: the cases that enter the Public Prosecutor's Offices give rise to preliminary proceedings, which eventually become reform files when they are not closed. In reform proceedings, the formulation or not of an accusation (allegations) for the imposition of a measure on the minor is considered, and may not necessarily lead to a trial if a dismissal is agreed or an out-of-court solution is reached.
Within the reform files, it is of special interest to contemplate the out-of-court solutions, which settle the facts without trial or sentence, or the pleadings of the prosecutor's office, in which, under the premise of considering the criminal nature of the facts, the imposition of a measure for the minor is requested.
They differ in:
   · Proceedings initiated: Includes preliminary proceedings initiated and amendment proceedings initiated.
   · Filed proceedings and records: Includes archived preliminary proceedings and archived amendment proceedings.
- Protection of minors: the activity of the Public Prosecutor's Offices is summarised in the different types of proceedings that are broken down, most of them related to the actions of the Administrations directly responsible for carrying out these protection tasks, in addition to the visits made to the protection centres.
- Judicial Proceedings: Data from the juvenile sections of the Public Prosecutor's Office on intervention in judicial proceedings in defense of the interests of minors.

3.Geographical scope:
The information covers the whole of the national territory.Data is published at national level, by Autonomous Communities and provinces.

4.Application bodies:
Public Prosecutor's Office.

5.Time coverage:
Information on a daily basis, with data available from 2018.

6.Updating of data:
Data is updated on an annual basis.

7.Standardisation processes:
The geographical data is standardised in accordance with theCTEAJE Technical Regulations (reference standard for IT tools in the field ofthe Administration of Justice).

8.Adjustment:
No seasonal adjustment, decomposition of time series orsimilar methods are carried out.

9.Source:
The data is obtained from the Attorney General's Office.