The Geography of Sentencing in France

About This Map

This map represents judicial outcomes at the departmental level, not crime prevalence or reported offences. The visualization uses administrative sentencing data aggregated by department, with colors indicating relative sentencing severity within the national distribution. This visualization is based exclusively on data aggregated at the departmental level. It cannot in any way be used to identify or evaluate an individual judge.

Data Sources

The judicial data come from the criminal litigation mapping produced by the Statistical Service of the Ministry of Justice, based on the Cassiopée information system. The data cover convictions handed down by first-instance criminal courts for adult defendants.