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In France, in February 2024, the most common type of offense reported to the police was theft without violence against people. Moreover, 2,419 armed robberies were committed during that time.

France - Population reporting occurrence of crime, violence or vandalism in their area was 14.70% in December of 2023, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for France - Population reporting occurrence of crime, violence or vandalism in their area - last updated from the EUROSTAT on June of 2025. Historically, France - Population reporting occurrence of crime, violence or vandalism in their area reached a record high of 22.30% in December of 2004 and a record low of 13.90% in December of 2017.

French Polynesia crime rate per 100K population for 2009 was 0.35, a 88.96% decline from 2008.

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<li>French Polynesia crime rate per 100K population for 2008 was <strong>3.21</strong>, a <strong>27.48% increase</strong> from 2007.</li>
<li>French Polynesia crime rate per 100K population for 2007 was <strong>2.52</strong>, a <strong>130.59% increase</strong> from 2006.</li>
<li>French Polynesia crime rate per 100K population for 2006 was <strong>1.09</strong>, a <strong>0% increase</strong> from .</li>
</ul>Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.

Context

This dataset is an aggregated count of all crimes committed in France, broken down by month and category.

Content

This data was aggregated by the French national government and published online on the French Open Data Portal. It is a combination of records kept by both local and national police forces. It's important to note that the name of the categories of crime are in French!

Acknowledgements

This data is a part of a larger group of Excel files published by the French Goverment on the French Open Data Portal. It has been converted to a single CSV file before uploading here.

Inspiration

This is a simple time series dataset that can be probed for trends in the underlying types of crimes committed. Is petty theft more or less popular today than it was ten years ago? How much variation is there in the amount of robberies year-to-year? Can you normalize the growth in the number of crimes against the growth in the number of people? How do crimes committed here differ from those committed in, say, Los Angeles?

The monthly number of crimes and offenses recorded by the French police and gendarmerie fluctuated between January 2015 and August 2022, but increased overall. The month with the highest number of offenses recorded by police services was March 2022, with more than 352,000. In contrast, there were only 139,417 in April 2020, during the containment period set up by the French authorities to address the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Study’s Subject: The German Statistical Office of the German Empire compiled a comparative representation of different countrie’s crime statistics. In this context the statistical office was faced with the problem of diverging methodologies and classifications of the countrie’s crime statistics data collections. After World War 1 the “International Statistic Institute (ISI)” and the “International Penal Law and Prison Commission” (IPPC) ) resumed their research activities in the fields of criminal statistics in international comparison. In this context the Statistical Office of the German Empire carried out an investigation of 33 european and non-european countries with the aim to work out a comparative compilation of various criminalstatistical classifications. Is was established that at the time of preparation a comparison of different classifications a comparable international data compilation could not be gathered due to significant differences between the classifications. Finally from the 33 countries it could be compiled time series on criminal statisics only for a small selection of countries. The reason for this situation was the lack of data material for many countries. Therefore, the development of crime could be presented in form of time series for the following countries: - Austria- England and Wales- France- German Empire- Sweden- Canada- Japan In terms of the crime statistical objective data on lawsuit processes (for example the number of criminal proceedings) has not been incorporated. Furthermore, no data on the military criminal justice are included in the data compilation. The following information, which was available in the statistics, has been taken from the statistics for the data compilation: Information on the persons, who has been accused or convicted: Number of persons totally, by gender, teenagers or adults.Information on the offences the persons were accused for: accused or convicted by groups of offences or single selected offences.The sentences imposed as results of lawsuit processes are not included in this data compilation. Data tables in HISTAT (Thema: Kriminaltiät): A. Österreich (Austria) A.1 Rechtskräftig Verurteilte nach Geschlecht (Legally convicted by sex)A.2 Rechtskräftig Verurteilte wegen Verbrechen nach ausgewählten Deliktarten (Legally convicted of crimes by selected types of offences)A.3 Rechtskräftig Verurteilte wegen Verbrechen und Übertretungen zusammen nach ausgewählten Deliktarten (Legally convicted of crimes and violations by selected types of offences)A.4 Verurteilte auf 100.000 Strafmündige nach ausgewählten Deliktarten (Kriminalitätsziffern) (Convicted per 100.000 of population of the age of criminal responsibility by selected offences (crime rate)) B. England und Wales (England and Wales)B.1 Angeklagte wegen schwerer Vergehen vor Schwurgerichten und Vierteljahressitzungen nach Deliktarten (Accuesed of heavy offences at the jury court (Assizes) and at the „Quarter Sessions“ by types of offences)B.2 Angeklagte wegen schwerer und leichter Vergehen vor allen Gerichten insgesamt und vor den Gerichten für summarische Rechtsprechung (Accused of heavy offences and of petty offences at all types of courts and at courts of summary jurisdiction)B.3 Angeklagte und Verurteilte nach Geschlecht C. Frankreich (France) C.1 Verhandlungen vor Schwurgerichten (Hearings at the jury courts)C.1.1 Angeklagte vor Schwurgerichte nach Geschlecht (Accused at jury courts by gender)C.1.2 Anzahl der Verurteilten durch Schwurgerichte (Number of convicted by the jury court)C.1.3 Erhobene Anklagen nach Deliktart vor Schwurgerichten (Prosecutions by types of offences at the jury court) C.2 Verhandlungen vor Strafgerichten (Hearings at the tribunal court)C.2.1 Angeklagte vor und Verurteilte der Strafgerichte insgesamt (Accused and convicted of tribunal courts, totaly)C.2.2 Anklagen vor Strafgerichte nach Deliktarten (Prosecutions at the tribunal court by types of offences) D. Deutsches Reich (German Empire) D.1 Abgeurteilte Personen und verurteilte Personen nach Geschlecht, Jugendliche und Vorbestrafte (1882-1927) (Persons judged and convicted persons by sex)D.2 Verurteilte Personen nach Deliktgruppen (1882-1927) (Convicted Persons by types of offences)D.3 Kriminalitätsziffern der verurteilten Personen - auf 100.000 der strafm. Bevölkerung (1882-1927) (Crime rate of convicted Persons – per 100.000 of population of the age of criminal responsibility)D.4 Kriminalitätsziffern der verurteilten Personen nach Deliktgruppe - auf 100.000 der strafm. Bevölkerung (1882-1927) (Crime Rate of convicted Persons by type of offence – per 100.000 of population of the age of criminal responsibility)D.5 Die Strafmündige Bevölkerung des Deutschen Reiches (1882-1928) (Population of the German Empire of the a...

France - Population reporting occurrence of crime, violence or vandalism in their area: Below 60% of median equivalised income was 19.40% in December of 2023, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for France - Population reporting occurrence of crime, violence or vandalism in their area: Below 60% of median equivalised income - last updated from the EUROSTAT on June of 2025. Historically, France - Population reporting occurrence of crime, violence or vandalism in their area: Below 60% of median equivalised income reached a record high of 27.00% in December of 2020 and a record low of 18.60% in December of 2017.

St. Martin (French part) crime rate per 100K population for 2016 was 28.73, a 67.67% increase from 2015.

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<li>St. Martin (French part) crime rate per 100K population for 2015 was <strong>17.13</strong>, a <strong>24.48% decline</strong> from 2014.</li>
<li>St. Martin (French part) crime rate per 100K population for 2014 was <strong>22.69</strong>, a <strong>1.07% increase</strong> from 2013.</li>
<li>St. Martin (French part) crime rate per 100K population for 2013 was <strong>22.45</strong>, a <strong>304.34% increase</strong> from 2012.</li>
</ul>Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.

In 2023, 88 percent of the victims of rape or attempted rape recorded by the French security forces were women. The proportion of men among the perpetrators of these crimes was 98 percent. Regarding sexual offenses, 85 percent of the victims were women, and 96 percent of the perpetrators were men. It should also be noted that the older the victims, the more women are represented among them.

In France, in February 2024, more than 22,100 crimes and offenses related to drug use were reported to the police, on the other hand, there were 4,222 crimes related to drug trafficking which were also reported that same month. In recent months, these figures concerning drug crime in France kept increasing.

According to the French Ministry of the Interior, a total of 205,247 female victims of domestic gender-based violence and crimes were recorded by law enforcement in 2022. In the same year, nearly 120 women died from violence by a spouse or ex-spouse.

These data constitute an update of the volumes of crime and delinquency found in France published by the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police, published until 2013 in the French Documentation, and available on its website Internet. They contain administrative information on the judicial activity of the gendarmerie and police services, including those of the DOM-COM, since 2012.

In June 2024, the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights published its annual report on the state of racism in France. It appeared that racist acts highly increased in the last year, going from 1,636 acts in 2022 to 3,139 in 2023. Therefore, in the context of the legislative elections in June 2024, and the rise of far-right parties, the Commission stepped out and called on the French not to vote for the National Rally in the upcoming elections.

This dataset is about book series. It has 1 row and is filtered where the books is France : a guide to the French criminal justice system. It features 10 columns including number of authors, number of books, earliest publication date, and latest publication date.

The monthly number of crimes and offenses related to drug use varied greatly between January 2015 and August 2022. There is a certain periodicity to drug enforcement. March is the month when law enforcement records the most cases in a year. The lowest number was recorded in April 2020, during the containment of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. At the beginning of 2021, President Emmanuel Macron and his Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin launched a vast repressive plan against the use and sale of illegal drugs in France. In March 2022, the number of crimes was the highest recorded in France since 2015.

Spain crime rate per 100K population for 2021 was 0.61, a 2.94% decline from 2020.

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<li>Spain crime rate per 100K population for 2020 was <strong>0.63</strong>, a <strong>10.41% decline</strong> from 2019.</li>
<li>Spain crime rate per 100K population for 2019 was <strong>0.70</strong>, a <strong>13.71% increase</strong> from 2018.</li>
<li>Spain crime rate per 100K population for 2018 was <strong>0.62</strong>, a <strong>6.28% decline</strong> from 2017.</li>
</ul>Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.

All crime data for Vital Signs indicators are provided by the Baltimore City Police Department. BNIA-JFI normalizes this data by population to establish crime rates. Normalizing data allows for the rates to reflect the concentration of the crime relative to the population in the area and allows for comparison between areas of different populations.

Analysis of ‘Children in criminal judicial proceedings - France’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/children-in-criminal-judicial-proceedings-france on 12 November 2021.

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This dataset is on children (persons aged less than 18 years) in judicial proceedings in France. Judicial proceedings are those taking place in court as a part of the justice systems in Member States or proceedings that are alternatives to judicial proceedings. The data concerns the child in different roles, such as suspect/offender, witness, victim, plaintiff or otherwise the subject of judicial proceedings.

The dataset is organised according to the theme from the Masterlist. You can filter this dataset according to key word searches, whether the data provides disaggregation by the age of child, sex, region within country or socio-economic group and by source. The listing of national datasets indicates whether the information provided is equivalent or approximate to the Masterlist indicators.

You are able to access the raw data and metadata.

The national contextual overview describes the national legal and policy framework with regard to children's involvement in criminal judicial proceedings as at 1 June 2012.

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