Proceedings were quashed by courts in 9,941 cases, representing 2.6 percent of the total of persons brought to trial.
212,410 or 62.2 percent of the total of convictions of German nationals (including foreigners) in 1942, represent crimes and offenses in violation of the Reich Penal Code and 129,130 or 37.8 percent represent crimes and offenses in violation of other laws of the Reich.
b. Personal Data on Convicted Persons
Of convicted German nationals (and foreigners) 116,754 or 34.2 percent in 1942, were female and 52,423 or 15.3 percent were juveniles (ranging in age from 14 to 18). The age group of 18 to 21, normally representing the heaviest criminal quota, participates in the total of convictions only with a number of 34,401 delinquents or 10.1 percent, due to the drafting of many of these age brackets. The number of persons already previously convicted for crimes and offenses against laws of the Reich amounts to a total of 77,322 or 22.6 percent of whom 18,478 or 23.9 percent had more than 4 previous convictions. 36,419 of the convicted persons or 10.7 percent were foreigners, of whom 3,064 or 8.4 percent represented juveniles.
c. Individual Criminal Acts
Chart 1 A[363] affords a view into the criminal structure of 1942. According to this, the various acts of theft form, as previously, the greater part of the total of convictions (91,476 or 43.1 percent; all of whom are persons convicted for crimes and offenses in violation of the Reich Penal Code). If one disposes of insult as a petty and civil offense (13,516 or 6.4 percent), there follows—though at a greater interval—the other two significant offenses against property, i.e., fraud (11,567 or 5.4 percent) and receiving stolen goods (12,115 or 5.7 percent). The fifth place is accorded to sexual offenses (10,205 or 4.8 percent) among which the indecent assaults on persons under 14 as well as sodomy and bestiality (32.7 percent and 26.2 percent resp.) represent comparatively the greater share of all sexual crimes and offenses. Then follow again two offenses against property, i.e., embezzlement (9,328 or 4.4 percent) and forgery of documents (8,628 or 4.1 percent).
In major crimes, murder participates with 117 convictions; manslaughter with 101, and robbery together with extortion equivalent to robbery with 147 delinquents.
If one arranges the above discussed, numerically significant criminal acts in accordance with convicted adults and juveniles the following results: Of the total number of adult and juvenile persons convicted for crimes and offenses in violation of the Reich Penal Code, the percentage is as follows:
| Adults | Juveniles | |
| Petty larceny | 33.8 | 49.3 |
| Aggravated larceny | 3.8 | 17.5 |
| Embezzlement | 4.8 | 2.7 |
| Receiving stolen goods | 6.4 | 2.5 |
| Fraud | 6.0 | 2.8 |
| Forgery of Public Documents | 4.1 | 3.8 |
| Sexual crimes and offenses | 4.7 | 5.1 |
In petty and aggravated larceny together, the number of crimes represent approximately two-thirds for juveniles and slightly less than four-tenths for adults.