Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Statistiche criminali

http://www.europeansafetyobservatory.eu/downloads/EUICS_The%20Burden%20of%20Crime%20in%20the%20EU.pdf
Highlights
A European consortium comprising Gallup Europe1; UNICRI, Italy, Gallup 
Hungary, the Max
Planck Institute, Germany, CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg and GeoX Ltd., Hungary 
conducted
a sample survey among inhabitants of the European Union about their 
experiences with crime
and law enforcement. The survey was carried out in the 15 old member states 
of the Union plus
Poland, Hungary and Estonia. The study was co-funded by the European 
Commission, DG
RTD. Preliminary results were presented at a workshop convened at Gallup/EU 
headquarters
in Brussels on 21 November, 2005. The event was attended by representatives 
of the EC and
stakeholders from several member states.
Besides the current volume, a series of working papers have also been 
drafted, each of them
dealing with a particular aspect of safety and criminality in a more 
in-depth way. The analyses
and research data are available on the consortium website at
http://www.europeansafetyobservatory.eu
Victimisation Rates
Key results indicate that levels of common crimes such as burglaries, 
thefts, robberies and
assaults have decreased significantly over the past ten years everywhere in 
the Union, with the
possible exceptions of Belgium and Ireland.
In 2004 levels of crime were most elevated in Ireland, the United Kingdom, 
Estonia, The
Netherlands and Denmark and lowest in Spain, Hungary, Portugal and Finland. 
Factors
associated with high levels of crime include urbanization and the proportion 
of young people in
the population.
Risks of crime victimisation varied by type of crime. Risks of being 
assaulted were found to be
highest in the United Kingdom, Ireland the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and 
Denmark.
Risks were lowest in Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Spain and France. Rates of 
violent crime were
found to be associated with the levels of consumption of alcohol per 
population.
Experiences with sexual violence were reported most often by women in 
Ireland, Sweden,
Germany and Austria and least often in Hungary, Spain, France and Portugal.
The survey also addressed experiences of the public with special crime 
problems. Respondents
were asked whether they had personally been in contact in their area with 
drugs-related
problems such as drugs dealing or syringes left in parks. Such experiences 
were most common
in Greece, Portugal, Luxembourg, Spain and Italy and least common in 
Finland, Sweden,
Hungary and Denmark.
The survey asked respondents whether they had been requested to pay bribes 
to public officials
over the past twelve months. Positive answers were given most often by 
inhabitants of Greece,
Poland, Hungary and Estonia. Bribe-seeking was least common in Finland, the 
UK, Sweden,
the Netherlands and Ireland. Results are roughly in line with the rankings 
on the Corruption
Perception Index of Transparency International, a Berlin- based NGO.
Respondents were also asked about any experiences with crimes motivated by 
hatred against
minorities. Rates of such 'hate crimes' were most pronounced in France, 
Denmark, the United
Kingdom and the Benelux countries. The lowest levels were recorded in Italy, 
Portugal,
Greece and Austria. On average 15 % of the immigrants in the European Union 
were
victimised once or more by a 'hate crime' in the course of 2004.
Security Concerns
Section 3 of this report deals with security concerns of EU residents. It 
discusses experiences
of crime victims with regards to their treatment by the police as well as 
opinions of the general
public on crime, local policing and criminal justice
The respondents were asked how they assess the chance of becoming a victim 
of burglary in
the coming year and how safe they feel on the street after dark. The first 
is a rational
consideration and the responses roughly correlate with the actual burglary 
rates in a country.
The second item deals with fear; it does not correlate with actual 
victimisation but correlates
very high with exposure to drugs related problems. Most afraid are the 
populations of Poland
and Greece. The Danish and Finnish population are the least fearful.
Those who had been victimized by any crime were asked whether they had 
reported the
incident to the police. The rate of reporting by victims varies by type of 
crime, the more
serious a crime is, the higher the reporting rates. Variation in reporting 
rates among the 18 EU
countries was limited: Between forty and seventy percent of crimes were 
reported to the police.
Victims that reported were subsequently asked how they rated their treatment 
by the police.
The judgments of crime victims showed considerable disparity across the 
Union, with opinions
being least favourable in Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy and Portugal and 
most favourable in
Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg and Austria.
All respondents were asked to rate the performance of their local police in 
controlling crime. In
most countries public opinions on police performance were slightly improved 
compared to
results of previous polls. Opinions were most critical of the police in 
Poland and Estonia and
most favourable in Finland, Denmark, Austria and Ireland.
An index was constructed of perceived police performance on the basis of 
reporting rates,
opinions of victims and of the general public. Countries with the best 
scores on this
comprehensive index were Austria, Denmark, Belgium, Germany and Sweden. 
Opinions were
least positive in Poland, Greece, Estonia and Italy.
The survey asked respondents about the use of special measures to protect 
themselves against
burglary. The use of electronic burglar alarms has increased significantly 
in the past ten years
across the Union. Over 30 percent of the households in the United Kingdom 
and Ireland have a
burglar alarm, but less than 10 percent of the households in Poland and 
Estonia. Also the use of
other measures such a special door locks has increased. Although the EU ICS 
only asks for
measures against burglary, there is reason to believe that security 
precautions against other
crimes have increased as well. This may well explain the drop in property 
crime in Europe.
Respondents were lastly asked to express their opinions on the punishment 
most suitable for a
recidivist burglar, e.g. imprisonment or a community service order. Those in 
Estonia, Hungary,
the United Kingdom and Ireland were most likely to favour imprisonment. 
Support for
imprisonment was least common among respondents from Portugal, France, 
Austria, Poland
and Finland. The upward trend in support for imprisonment seems to have 
reached a plateau in
most countries.
Crime and Safety Profiles
The country profiles presented in this section allow readers to assess at a 
glance how their
country of interest relates to the EU mean, excluding the country at issue 
itself. The results
present a country's crime and justice profile in a nutshell.

 
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