In 2023, the metropolitan city of Milan ranked first in terms of crime rate, as it recorded 7,100 felonies per 100,000 inhabitants. Furthermore, the provinces of Rome and Florence followed with around 6,000 cases reported. In Milan, burglaries in shops and thefts were much more common than in any other Italian provinces. Frequent car thefts The Southern province of Barletta-Andria-Trani, in the region of Apulia, was the place in Italy with the highest rate of stolen cars. Roughly 697 cases per every 100,000 residents were registered in 2019. Catania had the second-largest rate with about 656 reports. Nationwide, the three most frequently stolen car models belonged to Fiat, the leading Italian vehicle manufacturer. Moreover, a Lancia car model ranked fourth. This company was also part of the Fiat Group, which, however, only sells vehicles in Italy. Mafia associations  In the last years, the number of mafia associations in Italy experienced a decline. However, there are still dozens of mafia-type organizations in the country. The Southern region of Campania was the place faced with the largest amount of crime associations. In total, 67 of such crimes were reported in Campania in 2019.

Between 2014 and 2023, the number of crimes reported to the police in the municipality of Rome decreased. In 2014, 216,700 cases were registered by the police, while in 2023 the total number of crimes equaled to 206,000 felonies, almost 11,000 cases less than in 2014.

As of 2023, Lombardy was the Italian region with the highest number of crime records. That year, this region registered almost 457,000 reports. Lombardy is also the largest region in terms of population, with ten million inhabitants. Lazio, where Rome is located, followed with 303,000 cases.

The most recent report of the Italian Ministry of the Interior reveals that between January 2023 and July 2024, 499 homicides were committed in Italy. The number of homicides has recorded a decreasing trend since 2011. Overall, about 2.3 million criminal acts were reported in Italy in 2023. Femicide Femicide, a homicide in which a woman is killed for gender-based reasons, poses a serious problem around the world. In 2018, roughly one in six Italians believed that femicide was on the rise. Women, victims of homicide, are often related to the culprit; in 2022, 74 women in Italy were killed by their partner. Crime in Italy In 2023, the most common crime in Italy was theft. Law enforcement corps reported one million cases of this delinquency to the juridical authority, with the highest theft rate in the Metropolitan city of Milan.

In 2023, Milan recorded the highest theft rate in Italy, with almost 4,000 felonies per 100,000 inhabitants. Rome and Rimini followed, with around 3,500 and 3,200 thefts per 100,000 residents, respectively.

Florence was the first province for robbery rate in Italy in 2023. In Tuscany's largest city occurred more than 136 robberies per 100,000 inhabitants. Milan ranked second, with 129 cases. In Rome, only 71 felonies were reported, significantly fewer than Florence and MIlan.

In 2019, Rome was the Italian city with the largest number of minors reported to the judicial authority. That year, there were *** young Italians and *** young foreigners reported for crimes in the city of Rome. Overall, the Italian cities mostly hit by juvenile criminality in 2019 were Rome, Milan, Bologna, Naples, and Florence.

In 2022, the northern Italian province of Imperia recorded the largest number of sexual violences compared to the population, with 23.55 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Bologna followed with 21.65 violences per 100,000 residents, whereas Trieste, in the north-east, registered 18.85 cases every 100,000 inhabitants.

Between 2013 and 2019, the number of pickpocketing episodes reported by the police forces to the judicial authority in Italy decreased considerably. In fact, while in 2014 almost *** thousand pickpocketing cases were reported, by 2019 this figure decreased to around *** thousand.

In 2022, the number of sexual violence cases reported to the authorities in Italy amounted to around 6,300. The highest number of rapes was recorded in Lombardy, with 1,300 cases, followed by Emilia-Romagna and Lazio.

Sexual violence is any sexual act or attempt to obtain a sexual act by violence or coercion, acts to traffic a person or acts directed against a person's sexuality, regardless of the relationship to the victim. Between 2006 and 2014, the number of sexual violence cases reported to the authorities in Italy increased. In 2023, 6,231 rapes occurred in the country. Lombardy was the region with the highest reports nationwide, with over one thousand cases of sexual violence.