Archive:Crime statistics

Data from January 2014. Most recent data: Further Eurostat information, Main tables and Database

This article presents recent statistics on crime and criminal justice in the European Union (EU) . The statistics currently available reflect the diversity of policing and legal systems within the EU: as such, comparisons of crime statistics between EU Member States should focus on trends over time, rather than directly comparing levels between countries for a specific year, given that the data can be affected by a range of factors, including different levels of criminalisation, the efficiency of criminal justice systems, and police recording practices. Furthermore, not all crimes are recorded by the police.

Main statistical findings

Crimes recorded by the police

Table 1: Offences recorded by the police, 2002-12
N° Country Number (in thousands)
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
1
 Belgium 1012,8 1007,8 1013,7 999,4 1022,8 1034,4 1043,6 1067,3 1072,0 1111,0 1073,8
2
 Bulgaria 146,9 143,9 142,1 137,8 136,4 134,7 126,7 138,1 147,0 128,6 120,6
3
 Czech Republic 372,3 357,7 351,6 344,1 336,4 357,4 343,8 332,8 313,4 317,2 304,5
4
 Denmark 491,5 486,2 474,4 432,7 425,1 445,3 477,0 491,8 471,1 466,8 440,8
7
 Germany 6507,4 6572,1 6633,2 6391,7 6304,2 6284,7 6114,1 6054,3 5933,3 5990,7 5997,0
8
 Estonia(¹) 53,3 53,6 53,0 52,9 51,8 50,4 51,0 48,4 48,3 42,6 40,8
9
 Ireland 106,4 103,5 99,2 102,2 103,2 : : : : : :
10
 Greece(²) 441,1 441,8 405,6 456,0 463,8 423,4 417,4 386,9 334,0 194,0 194,1
11
 Spain(³) 2183,5 2144,2 2141,3 2230,9 2267,1 2309,9 2396,9 2339,2 2297,5 2285,5 2268,9
12
 France 4113,9 3974,7 3825,4 3775,8 3725,6 3589,3 3558,3 3521,3 : : :
13
 Croatia 77,9 80,4 85,4 79,9 81,0 75,9 74,6 73,5 73,3 75,6 72,2
14
 Italy(⁴) 2231,6 2456,9 2417,7 2579,1 2771,5 2933,1 2709,9 2629,8 2621,0 2763,0 2818,8
15
 Cyprus 4,8 7,3 7,6 7,2 7,9 7,6 7,3 7,1 8,4 8,5 8,0
16
 Latvia(⁵) 49,3 51,8 62,2 51,4 62,3 55,6 57,5 56,7 51,1 51,6 49,9
17
 Lithuania 72,6 79,1 84,1 82,1 75,5 68,0 72,0 76,3 70,6 72,1 75,3
18
 Luxembourg 26,0 26,2 26,9 25,3 25,9 28,3 28,2 32,4 30,5 35,7 37,6
19
 Hungary 420,8 413,3 418,8 436,5 425,9 426,9 408,4 394,0 447,2 451,4 472,2
20
 Malta 17,0 17,7 18,4 18,6 16,5 15,0 13,8 12,0 13,3 14,2 15,6
21
 The Netherlands(⁶) 1401,9 1369,3 1319,5 1348,3 1311,8 1303,8 1277,8 1254,5 1194,0 1194,1 1139,7
22
 Austria 591,6 643,3 643,6 605,3 589,5 594,2 572,7 591,6 535,7 540,0 548,0
23
 Poland 1404,2 1466,6 1461,2 1380,0 1287,9 1153,0 1082,1 1129,6 1151,2 1159,6 1119,8
24
 Portugal 391,6 417,4 416,4 392,7 399,6 398,6 430,5 426,0 422,6 413,7 403,2
25
 Romania 312,2 276,8 231,6 208,2 232,7 281,5 289,3 299,9 292,7 258,9 308,5
26
 Slovenia 77,2 76,6 86,6 84,4 90,4 88,2 81,9 87,5 89,5 88,7 91,4
27
 Slovakia 107,4 111,9 131,2 123,6 115,2 110,8 104,8 104,9 95,3 92,9 90,4
28
 Finland(⁷) 435,0 443,5 445,5 432,3 416,1 435,8 440,7 441,4 431,6 458,3 425,4
29
 Sweden 1234,8 1255,4 1248,7 1241,8 1225,0 1306,3 1377,9 1405,6 1370,4 1416,3 1402,6
30
 Iceland(⁸) 19,9 17,5 16,6 12,0 13,5 13,0 14,6 16,0 14,9 12,6 11,7
31
 Liechtenstein 1,0 1,1 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,1 1,1 1,2 1,0 1,1 1,1
32
 Norway 319,5 303,8 287,8 275,7 277,0 271,7 264,2 277,1 270,7 264,2 273,5
33
 Switzerland(⁷) 356,8 379,3 389,4 352,7 335,2 326,2 323,2 676,3 656,9 693,0 750,4
34
 Montenegro 8,9 8,6 8,2 9,6 9,6 9,3 8,3 8,1 7,0 6,1 5,8
35
 Macedonia 18,3 22,5 22,7 22,6 22,0 26,2 28,3 27,3 28,5 29,5 29,9
36
 Serbia 95,6 90,4 99,9 102,1 99,2 104,9 106,0 102,4 101,1 99,5 96,1
37
 Turkey(⁹) 438,7 472,2 507,5 667,8 975,1 970,6 1012,3 1288,1 1521,7 1652,8 1904,5

The crime statistics presented in this article cover offences recorded by police in EU Member States and some other European countries. These data do not purport to describe all crime in Europe: some crime goes unreported and changes in rates of particular offences may be affected by new policing strategies or methodological changes.

There is usually no straight match to be made in types and levels of crime between countries, because legal and criminal justice systems differ in such areas as: definitions of crimes [1], methods of reporting, recording and counting crimes; and rates of reported to unreported crime — see the section titled data sources and availability.

National data have been aggregated to provide estimates for the EU as a whole for the purpose of identifying overall trends. Any inferences for the EU or Member States should be based on trends over time.

Total recorded crime

The data for total recorded crime show only offences against the penal or criminal code; less serious crimes (misdemeanours) are excluded. The number of crimes recorded in the EU-28 has been steadily decreasing since 2003 (see Figure 1), with 12 % fewer crimes recorded in the EU-28 in 2012 than nine years earlier. Note that these figures for the total number of recorded crimes cover a wider range of offences than those detailed in the analyses that follow — namely, for the selected offences of violent crime, homicide, robbery, property crime and drugs offences — and that the sum of these selected offences does not add up to the total of all recorded crimes.

There was a general tendency for levels of recorded crime to decrease in recent years: the number of most types of crimes recorded by the police in the EU-28 fell between 2007 and 2012 as can be seen from Figure 2. While crimes linked to drug trafficking, robbery and violent crimes decreased by an amount between 4 % and 10 % during the period 2007 to 2012, the number of motor vehicle thefts fell considerably faster over the same period (-37 %), confirming a longer term trend. By contrast, domestic burglary is a category of crime with a rising trend in the EU-28: compared with 2007, 14 % more cases of domestic burglary were reported in 2012.

From Table 1 it can be seen that 10 EU Member States saw their number of crimes increase between 2007 and 2012 (time series not available for Ireland or France). By contrast, total recorded crime decreased in the remaining 16 EU Member States, the most noticeable changes being recorded in Greece (-54 %), parts of the United Kingdom (-25 % in England and Wales and -29 % in Scotland), Estonia (-19 %) and Slovakia (-18 %); note that there is a break in series for Greece which may in part explain the particularly large reduction.

England and Wales had the greatest influence on the downward trend in the EU-28 during this period, with the largest decrease of crimes in terms of registered cases, more than 1.2 million less in 2012 than in 2007. Among the non-member countries shown in Table 1, the total number of crimes recorded by the police in Turkey increased by 96 % between 2007 and 2012.

Violent crime

Data for violent crime comprise violence against the person (such as physical assault), robbery (stealing by force or threat of force) and sexual offences (including rape and sexual assault). A detailed analysis of this type of crime is difficult because not all EU Member States use the standard definition. Furthermore, because 2012 violent crime data for France exclude crimes recorded by the gendarmerie (break in series), comparisons with total violent crimes registered for the reference year 2011 would be misleading.

However, the general trend for the EU-28 shows a decline of about 10 % in the number of violent crimes recorded between 2007 and 2012. This overall decline is strongly influenced by the data from England and Wales, where there was a fall of 166 thousand violent crimes recorded between 2007 and 2012 (Table 2). Looking at the other EU Member States, the picture appears heterogeneous, with significant rises between 2007 and 2012 in Luxembourg (38 %), Hungary (26 %) and Denmark (23 %) and large decreases in Lithuania (-42 %), Croatia (-33 %), Scotland (-32 %), Latvia and Slovakia (both -30 %), and Malta (-27 %).

Homicide

Prison population, average per year, 2007-09 and 2010-12
(per 100,000 inhabitants)
N° Country 2007–09 2010–12
4
 Latvia 312 312
5
 Lithuania 247 307
6
 Estonia 266 253
7
 Czech Republic 198 217
8
 Poland 228 214
9
 Slovakia 159 197
10
 Hungary 148 169
11
 England and
Wales(UK)		 151 154
12
 Scotland(UK)(¹) 150 154
13
 Spain 158 152
14
 Romania 132 150
15
 Malta 126 143
16
 Bulgaria 132 132
17
 Luxembourg 139 126
18
 Portugal 106 120
19
 Croatia 108 116
20
 Italy 98 113
21
 Greece 105 112
22
 France 99 106
23
 Austria 101 104
24
 Belgium 93 101
25
 Northern Ireland(UK) 84 91
26
 The Netherlands 90 84
27
 Germany 89 84
28
 Ireland 76 80
29
 Cyprus 84 78
30
 Denmark 66 72
31
 Sweden 74 71
32
 Slovenia 66 65
33
 Finland 63 60

Homicide is defined as the intentional killing of a person, including murder, manslaughter, euthanasia and infanticide. It excludes death by dangerous driving, abortion and assisted suicide. Homicides are reported fairly consistently and definitions vary less between countries than for other types of crime. The results presented are for completed homicides, except for Latvia where the data include attempted homicide. In some countries, the police register any death that cannot immediately be attributed to other causes as homicide; this heading may, therefore, be over-reported.

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