Northern Ireland's crime rate has fallen from 81.4 crimes per 1,000 people in 2002/03 to 58.3 in 2023/24, when fraud is including the crime rate of Northern Ireland was 57.1 crimes per 1,000 people in 2023/24. During this time period, Norther Ireland's crime rate saw the biggest decline in its crime rate between 2002/03 and 2003/04 when it dropped from 81.4 to 73.3.

In 2024, there were over 221,590 crime offences recorded in the Republic of Ireland, an increase from the previous year. Between 2003 and 2008, the number of crime offences in Ireland increased to a peak of 297,540 followed by a similarly steep decline in offences between 2008 and 2013.

Historical dataset showing Ireland crime rate per 100K population by year from 1990 to 2021.

Ireland: Property crimes per 100,000 people: The latest value from is crimes per 100,000 people, unavailable from crimes per 100,000 people in . In comparison, the world average is 0.00 crimes per 100,000 people, based on data from countries. Historically, the average for Ireland from to is crimes per 100,000 people. The minimum value, crimes per 100,000 people, was reached in while the maximum of crimes per 100,000 people was recorded in .

In 2023/24 the crime rate of Northern Ireland stood at 55 crimes per 1,000 people, with the policing district of Belfast City having the highest crime rate of 96 crimes per 1,000 people.

In 2023/24 there were 44,143 violent crimes recorded by the police in Northern Ireland, compared with 49,992 in the previous reporting year.

Since 2014, Eurostat and the UNODC have launched a joint annual data collection on crime and criminal justice statistics, using the UN crime trends questionnaire and complementary Eurostat requests

for specific areas of interest to the European Commission. The data and metadata are collected from National Statistical Institutes or other relevant authorities (mainly police and justice departments) in each EU Member State, EFTA country and EU potential members. On the Eurostat website, data are available for 41 jurisdictions since 2008 until 2018 data and for 38 jurisdictions since 2019 data (EU-27, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Turkey, Kosovo(1)), having drop the data for the United Kingdom separately owing to three separate jurisdictions England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland.

This joint data collection and other data collections carried out by Eurostat allows to gather information on:

• police-recorded offences by type of crime
• police-recorded offences by NUTS3 region
• intentional homicide and sexual violence victims and perpetrators (suspected, prosecuted, convicted) by sex
• intentional homicide victims by age, sex, and relationship to the offender
• intentional homicide victims and offences in largest cities
• offenders by justice legal status (suspected, prosecuted, convicted), age, sex, and citizenship
• persons brought before criminal courts by legal status (convicted persons/acquitted)
• personnel by institution (police, courts, and prisons) by sex
• legal cases in first instance courts by type and stage
• prisoners by age, sex, citizenship, and status of the trial process
• prison capacity and occupancy
• people involved in human trafficking by legal status (victims, suspected and convicted traffickers) and victims of human trafficking by all forms of exploitation and citizenship

Where available, data are broken down by sex, age groups (adults/juveniles), country of citizenship (foreigners or nationals) and other relevant variables. National data are available and for intentional homicide offences, city level data (largest cities) are available for some countries. Regional data at NUTS3 level are also available for some police-recorded offences.

Some historical series are available:

• Number of police-recorded crimes by type (intentional homicide, violence, robbery, home burglary, car thefts, and drug crimes) for the period 1993 – 2007
• Number of police-recorded homicide in cities for the period 1993 – 2007
• Number of police officers for the period 1993 – 2007
• Prison population for the period 1993 – 2007

Total number of police-recorded crimes for the period 1950 – 2000

(1) under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244/99

Creating our Future was a Government of Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland initiative that ‘provided an opportunity for everyone in Ireland to give ideas on how to make our country better for all’ by allowing the public to submit research ideas that might ‘inspire researchers to make a better future for Ireland.’

Subtitled ‘a national conversation on research in Ireland’, Creating our Future received 18,062 online submissions (Jul-Nov 2021). All submissions were published in a searchable database in August 2022, alongside authors’ stated age ranges and counties of residence (when provided). A thematic category (e.g. ‘Politics and Policymaking’, ‘Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’, ‘Health and Social Care’, ‘Digital World’, etc.) was also assigned to each submission after ‘expert analysis was complete to facilitate public use’ (see ‘Information on Submissions’ here).

Funded by the National Open Research Forum (which itself was funded by the Higher Education Authority), partners and research assistants from the Criminal justice Open Research Dialogue (CORD) Partnership used the secondary dataset from Creating our Future to create a subset of data including 245 submissions which related to crime or criminal justice issues. Details about the process and ideas for the analysis of this dataset can be found on the website of the European Network for Open Criminology (link to be added shortly).

How confident persons are that the wider criminal justice system has brought people who commit crimes in Ireland to justice

Recorded Crime Offences from 2003 Q1 to 2022 Q2

Dataset scraped by Zaur Gouliev (zaurgouliev@gmail.com) from CSO/Record Crime Statistics

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Introduction

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) publishes statistics on Recorded Crime on a quarterly basis. The Recorded Crime statistical release and associated tables provide detail on the number and type of crime incidents recorded by An Garda Síochána.

Recorded Crime statistics are derived from the administrative data records created and maintained by An Garda Síochána on their incident recording system PULSE (Police Using Leading Systems Effectively).

Incidents reported to, or which become known to, An Garda Síochána are recorded as crime incidents if a member of An Garda Síochána determines that, on the balance of probability, a criminal offence defined by law has taken place, and there is no credible evidence to the contrary. Recorded Crime statistics are disseminated using the Irish Crime Classification System (ICCS) and are based on the date recorded as being the date the crime was reported to, or became known to, An Garda Síochána.

Recorded Crime statistics contain only valid crime incidents reported to and recorded by An Garda Síochána. Issues of under-reporting and under-recording of crime are not addressed in this release.

Recorded Crime statistics are subject to revision because the underlying records may be subject to ongoing review by An Garda Síochána on the incident recording system as the Garda investigation into the incident progresses.

Crime Counting Rules (CCR)

An overview for how crimes ought to be recorded by An Garda Síochána is provided in the Crime Counting Rules document. The document, published by AGS, explains the procedures and rationale for whether or not to record a crime incident and what to record. It provides guidance for the classification, reclassification, and invalidation of records and for recording whether a crime incident is detected.

In summary, incidents reported or which become known to An Garda Síochána are recorded as crime incidents if a member of An Garda Síochána determines that, on the balance of probability, a criminal offence defined by law has taken place, and there is no credible evidence to the contrary. A crime incident should be recorded against the Garda sub-district in which the incident took place (or was reported if the location cannot be determined).

If it is subsequently determined that a criminal offence did not take place, the recorded crime incident should be invalidated. Invalidated incidents are not counted in recorded crime statistics.

If a person withdraws a report of a crime, stating that the criminal act did not take place, again the recorded crime incident is invalidated unless there is evidence to suggest that, on the balance of probability, an offence has taken place.

A recorded crime is classified as a particular incident type at the time it is initially recorded on PULSE. If, as part of an investigation, it becomes clear that a different crime incident type should have been used then the record should be reclassified. A reclassification to a homicide offence should occur, for example, if a serious assault has been recorded and the victim later dies as a direct consequence of the assault, or if a road traffic offence is determined to have resulted in a fatal road traffic collision.

Reclassification based on the outcome of court proceedings is only required in the case of homicide incidents. For example, a murder offence should be reclassified to manslaughter when a murder charge results in a conviction for manslaughter.

Primary Offence Rule: Where two or more criminal offences are committed in a single episode, it is the primary recorded crime incident which is counted. The primary incident is the incident for which the suspected offender would receive the greatest penalty on conviction. For example if a suspected offender is involved in an incident of dangerous driving causing death and an incident of drug possession, the incident of dangerous driving causing death should be classified as the primary incident. The drug possession incident would not be included in the Recorded Crime Statistics as only primary incidents are counted for statistical purposes. Homicide incidents should always be recorded as the primary incident.

One Offence Counts Per Victim: A separate crime incident should be recorded for each victim of a crime, and each incident is counted for statistical purposes. There are some exceptions to this rule, for example, a single burglary incident should be recorded where property belonging to two or more victims is stolen or damaged during a single burglary.

Continuous Series Involving the Same Victim and Same Offender: A series of fraud or sexual offence incidents involving the same offender and...

This dataset is on children (persons aged less than 18 years) in judicial proceedings in Ireland. 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.

The publication series 'Digest of Information on the Northern Ireland Criminal Justice System' has been temporarily postponed to enable a user consultation exercise to be carried out. There will be no further publications released until the consultation process has been completed.

Source agency: Justice (Northern Ireland)

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Digest of Information on the Northern Ireland Criminal Justice System

This dataset is about book subjects. It has 1 row and is filtered where the books is The courts, crime and the criminal law in Ireland, 1692-1760. It features 10 columns including number of authors, number of books, earliest publication date, and latest publication date.

This publication can be accessed here

The Police Service of Northern Ireland produces statistics on the number of crimes reported to police in Northern Ireland. Statistics are published on a financial year basis and a comparable data series has been available since 1998/99. These statistics are collected in accordance with the National Crime Recording Standard (NCRS) and the Home Office Counting Rules (HOCR). Except for some differences in legislation, they are comparable with police recorded crime statistics in England & Wales.

The PSNI produces statistics on the number of domestic abuse incidents and crimes recorded by the police in Northern Ireland. Statistics are published on a financial year basis and a comparable data series has been available since 2004/05. These statistics are collected in accordance with the definition of domestic abuse outlined in the Northern Ireland Government Strategy ‘Stopping Domestic and Sexual Violence and Abuse in Northern Ireland’.

This publication addresses victim and witness views of their criminal justice experience from the point of initial contact with the system right through to the point of sentencing and beyond.

Source agency: Justice (Northern Ireland)

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Victim and Witness Experience of the Northern Ireland Criminal Justice System

This publication can be accessed here

Crimes at Garda Stations Level 2010-2016