What is a Criminal Record?
The system in which information about criminal and security measures is recorded and processed based on a finalized court decision is called “judicial registry”. Criminal record can be described as a citizen’s criminal record kept in the state. Criminal record is also called criminal record among the people.
The court decision must be finalized in order for the penalty or security measure sanctioned for any crime committed by the person to be recorded in the criminal record. Court decisions that are not finalized are not recorded in the criminal record.
As a rule, every conviction that includes a penalty or a security measure is recorded in the criminal record. However, if the court has decided to postpone the announcement of the verdict, this decision cannot be recorded in the criminal record. Delays to defer the announcement of the verdict are not technically considered convictions. Therefore, they are registered in a separate system.
Which information is processed in the criminal record?
1- Decisions of conviction to imprisonment are recorded in the criminal record. If the person is released conditionally/conditionally after a certain period of time after being imprisoned due to a prison sentence, the decision for conditional release (release) is also recorded in the criminal record. In case of conditional release, the decision to extend the inspection period and withdraw the decision to release on probation is also recorded in the criminal record.
2- If the person has completed the execution of the prison sentence, the information regarding the completion of the prison sentence is also included in the criminal record.
3- If the prison sentence has been suspended, the period of supervision to which the person is subject should be included together with the information that the sentence has been suspended. In addition, if the inspection period is spent in accordance with the obligations and in good conduct, the issue that the penalty will be deemed to have been executed is recorded in the criminal record. If it is decided that the suspended prison sentence is to be served in the penitentiary institution because the obligations of the supervision period are not complied with, this decision is also recorded in the criminal record.
4- Information about the judicial fine conviction provision is also recorded in the criminal record. If the judicial fine has been paid, the fact that he has been executed by payment, and if the judicial fine has not been paid, that he has been partially or completely executed by means of compulsion shall be recorded in the criminal record.
5- In case of conviction to alternative sanction to short-term imprisonment, the decision regarding this is included in the criminal record.
6- The decision regarding the prohibition of the use of a certain right and authority or the performance of a certain profession or art, or the withdrawal of the driver’s license, given in connection with an exceptional circumstance or conviction regarding the deprivation of exercising certain rights, is also recorded in the criminal record.
