This page presents key statistics from the industrialized countries, urban Europe and developing countries. The surveys in the industrialized countries have been national and therefore apply to countries. Since urbanisation is an important factor in crime, comparison with results from 'city surveys' should be done very carefully.

The data from 'urban Europe' are from the capital cities in Eastern Central Europe plus the cities larger than 100.000 inhabitants from the Western European surveys. The data from developing countries are all from capital cities.

Industrialized countries

Appendix 4 from the 2000 keyfindings - in PDF format
(van Kesteren et. al. 2000)

Victimisation of 11 crimes, corruption and consumer fraud and three sub-crimes, profile of offences and trends;
Seriousness of crime;
Reporting to the police, police satisfaction and victim support;
Opinions about crime, fear and punishment, crime prevention measures.

Urban Europe

Appendix from: Alvazzi del Frate & van Kesteren (forthcoming) in PDF format

Victimisation of 11 crimes, corruption and consumer fraud and three sub-crimes, profile of offences and trends;
Seriousness of crime;
Reporting to the police;
corruption.

Developing countries

We are working on some tables with key statistics.
For now, consult chapter 2 of Alvazzi del Frate (1998)