Due to enactment of laws pursuant to war exigencies, the following other crimes and offenses deserve mentioning: They are arranged in order of the number of their convictions.
| Persons convicted with legally binding effect | |
| Penal ordinances relating to the rationing of consumer goods of 5 April 1940 | 18,565 |
| Decree amending the penal code for the protection of the military power of the German nation of 25 November 1939 | 9,263 |
| Amongst them: prohibited contact with prisoners of war (article 4) | 9,103 |
| War Economy Decree of 4 September 1939 | 8,097 |
| Decree against people’s parasites of 5 September 1939 | 5,029 |
| Decree, subject: special measures concerning foreign broadcasts of 1 September 1939 | 985 |
| Decree relating to crimes of violence of 5 December 1939 | 194 |
d. Sentences pronounced
Chart No. 2[364] gives the particulars about the sentences pronounced.
According to it, in 1942, 1,061 death sentences were pronounced, among them 18 against juveniles. 15,830 defendants were sentenced to terms in penitentiary for definite periods of time, of them 6,543 or 41.3 percent to a period of 3 years and more, 56 terms in penitentiary for a definite period of time were pronounced against juveniles.
Of the total number of terms of imprisonment amounting to 143,685—in the year reported on short-term sentences formed 41.5 percent of them, these of medium length 47.3 percent, long-term imprisonments 10.3 percent, and these of undefined length 0.9 percent.
Fines were imposed in 141,464 cases. Detention was pronounced in 378 cases.
In 1942 juvenile arrest was pronounced against 37,717 juveniles, i.e., against 71.9 percent of the total number of juvenile delinquents, among them were 25,562 arrests or 67.8 percent for a definite period of time. The proportion of chronologically defined terms of imprisonment of more than 2 weeks to the total number of arrests is 51.5 percent. 12,155 or 32.2 percent of the juveniles were sentenced to weekend incarceration, and among them 23.6 percent to the loss of three and four of their weekly off-times.
Of the protective and reformative measures described in article 42a of the Reich Penal Code, the following have been decreed with legally binding effect in 1942:
| Placing into a lunatic asylum | 906 |
| Placing into a reformatory institution for alcohol addicts | 90 |
| Placing into a workhouse | 400 |
| Protective custody | 1,414 |
| Sterilization of dangerous sexual offenders | 152 |
| Ban on the exercise of trade or profession | 298 |