In 2023, there were 214 murders in Germany, and 490 attempted murders resulting in 704 murder cases in that year, compared with 662 cases in the previous year. Between 2000 and 2012, there was a net decrease of 300 murder cases a year in Germany, but in recent years that trend has been reversed, with 2018 showing the largest year-on-year increase in this time period.

In 2023, police in Germany solved 92.3 percent of murder cases. The clearance rate for murder cases during the specified time period remained high.

In 2023, there were 299 murder victims in Germany. This was an increase compared to the previous year, with 264 victims. The data only includes completed criminal acts.

In 2023, 808 victims of murder, homicide or assisted suicide in Germany had no relationship with the crime suspect. The data show the number of the types of relationships between the victims and suspects in the aforementioned cases.

The number of rape and sexual assault cases reported to the police in Germany peaked at ****** in 2024 during the period shown here. Previously, the highest number of cases, ******, had been recorded the year before. Based on the definition in criminal law, sexual assault includes rape, as well as other sexually driven physical attacks. Rape is defined as forcing a person to have sex. Increased crime clearance rate The question remains how high the number of unreported cases is. Reasons for not reporting a sexual assault vary among victims. In recent years, the German police reported increasing clearance rates for sexual crimes. In 2022, **** percent of rape and sexual assault cases were solved, compared to **** percent in 2016. In 2023, however this figure dropped to **** percent, perhaps due to the increase in the number of cases. Among males suspected of committing such crimes, over ** percent were young adults aged 18 to 21 years. Types of German police forces German police forces are divided into several different types, which all have clearly established tasks regulated by law. The Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt, BKA) is often compared to the FBI in the U.S. and investigates federal crimes, such as kidnapping. The Federal Police (Bundespolizei), works in railway stations, at airports, and seaports. They also protect borders, government buildings, and deal with organized crime and terrorism. The criminal police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo), the only policemen not wearing in uniform in Germany, handle assault, murder, and rape cases, as well as theft. The uniformed police (Schutzpolizei, SchuPo), or beat police, are regularly visible in streets, as they are responsible for traffic safety, among other tasks, and may be approached directly by people in need of assistance or help.

The German Victimization Survey is a dark field survey conducted on behalf of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) with the aim of collecting comprehensive information on the topics of fear of crime, victim experiences and reporting behaviour in the Federal Republic of Germany. Other focal points of the survey were fraud offences with EC and credit cards or on the Internet as well as crime-related attitudes. The study, designed as a cross-sectional survey, was first conducted in 2012 and repeated in 2017 with a slightly modified survey instrument. A representative sample of the German population aged 16 and over was interviewed in computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI). In both surveys, the interviews were conducted in German, Turkish and Russian.

The cumulative dataset presented here contains the complete data of both surveys and thus enables the measurement of changes between 2012 and 2017.

Topics: 1. Number of household members aged 16 and over (fixed-network sample/total sample); household size; household type; age; age group; life satisfaction, trust; self-assessment of health status; general personal trust; institutional trust (federal government, courts, police, political parties, Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), public prosecutor´s office).

1. Crime-related attitudes: Contact with police in the last 12 months; reason for police contact (reporting a crime, stopped on the street, questioned as a witness, accident, as a suspect, professional contact, given information or advice to get help or advice, other reason); satisfaction with treatment by police at last contact; reasons for dissatisfaction with last police contact (e.g. did not come quickly enough, not helpful enough or not at all, prejudice, etc.). ); reputation of the police among people in the personal environment (image); negative experiences with the police in the last 12 months in the personal environment; assessment of the work of the local police in fighting crime; equal treatment of rich and poor people by the local police when reporting a crime; frequency of disproportionate violence by the local police; assessment of one´s own economic situation; concerns about the deterioration of one´s own standard of living; agreement with the statement: enough people in the personal environment who take me as I am.

Additional questions on justice: frequency of fair and impartial decisions by the courts; equal treatment of rich and poor people in court; frequency of wrong decisions by courts (guilty people not convicted, innocent people convicted); contact with a court in the last five years about a criminal case; time of last contact with a court about a criminal case; own role in last participation in a criminal case; satisfaction with the outcome of the case.

1. Attitudes towards punishment: Importance of different purposes in imposing punishment (deterring offenders from committing further crimes, helping offenders to lead a crime-free life, making offenders pay for their crime, making offenders pay for the harm they have done, increasing the public´s awareness of the law, protecting society from offenders);

Vignette experiment: attitudes towards punishment based on different case studies for different offences (bodily harm, theft, damage to property, fraud, robbery) with regard to appropriate response options of the state, custodial sentence with or without probation, duration of custodial sentence in years/months and most appropriate conditions.

1. Attitudes towards immigration: immigration good or bad for the German economy, cultural life in Germany undermined or enriched by immigrants; Germany made a better or worse place to live by immigrants.

2. Media use: average weekly use of (internet) TV, (internet) radio, internet edition of a newspaper, printed newspaper, internet (excluding TV, radio, newspaper use); interest in different types of TV programmes (news, political magazines, other magazines, reports, documentaries, TV shows, quiz programmes, sports programmes, crime films, feature films, entertainment series, comedy programmes); reasons for TV consumption.

3. Social psychological perspectives and attitudes: Attitudes towards life and the future based on various statements (how my life turns out depends on myself, what one achieves in life is primarily a matter of fate or luck, success has to be worked hard for, when I encounter difficulties in life I often doubt my abilities, more important than all the efforts are the ...

Since 2016, the number of crimes per 100,000 inhabitants has been on a downward trend and was at its lowest in 2021, although this was likely due to the lockdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, crime rates have risen again. In 2023, the police recorded roughly ***** criminal offenses per 100,000 inhabitants. Youth criminal suspects Since the number of crimes is increasing, so is the number of suspects. Concerningly, the number of juvenile suspects has seen a rather significant increase and is currently at its ************ since 2016. Suspects who are considered in the juvenile category are aged 14 to 17 years old. In Germany, children under the age of 14 cannot be prosecuted and if they commit a crime, then social services usually step in to try and help. In general, punishments for those convicted are much more lenient as it is often considered that due to their age, they may not have been aware of the repercussions of their actions. For example, regardless of the crime committed, no child under the age of 18 can be tried as an adult. In contrast, in England and Wales, there were around ***** people aged between 15 and 20 in prison. Crimes solving rate With a higher crime rate, it is also important to consider how many crimes are solved. Once a crime is solved, the hope is that the victim can get some type of closure and answers, and also that the perpetrator faces justice for the crimes they committed. In 2023, the police solved around **** million crimes in Germany and for the past three years, there has been a substantial increase in the number of crimes solved. Some cases are, of course, easier to solve than others. Crimes of arson and other fire-hazard-related crimes had a comparably low clearance rate at around ** percent. In contrast, drug-related offenses were much more frequently solved. Even though 2023 saw the lowest clearance rate in 20 years, it was still at ** percent.

Description: Subject of the study:The age structure is of primary importance for the evaluation of the potential of a population in the areas of labor, economic development, consumption and also indicates needs concerning special facilities in the areas of education and the healthcare sector. Further the total population can be seen as a benchmark for the calculation of indices. The present data from the Federal Office of Statistics sorted by age and sex for the territory of Germany is summarized in age groups of criminal responsibility. The population of Germany is measured regarding the respective frontiers – until 1989 the territory of the former Federal Republic and from 1990 on the German territory after the reunification from the third of October in 1990. The status of the indicated numbers of population is as of December 31 of each the year.The data comes from the censuses and from current population estimations. The entries on population therefore contain German and Foreign population together. With the help of the entries on non-German population altogether from the censuses and the entries on the age structure of the foreign population, taken from the data of the Central Register for Foreign Nationals, the portion of the criminal responsible non-German population will be calculated, so it can be compared to the German criminal responsible population. Criminal responsibility means reaching an age at which the legislators think a person is capable of overviewing the consequences of his or her actions and therefore takes over the responsibility for these actions. In the German Empire, the beginning of the criminal responsibility was with 12 years in 1871. 1923 a juvenile court law was enacted in which the age for criminal responsibility was increased to 14 years. With the “first act for the protection of adolescent dangerous criminals” in 1939 adolescents were treated as adults in front of the law only from the age of 16 on. Then after the “Reichsjugendgesetz” (Reich´s juvenile act) in 1943 the complete legal culpability and criminal responsibility started again with 12 years.The new version of the Juvenile Courts Act from October 1953 rose the age of criminal responsibility again to 14 years and this is nowadays still valid. In the jurisdiction of the Federal Republic of Germany criminal responsibility develops with increasing age in three steps.The German panel code establishes criminal responsibility at the age of 14 years. Until the age of 14 years there is no criminal responsibility at all. The term for this used in the law is lack of culpability of the child (Schuldunfähigkeit des Kindes) (vgl. Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafmündigkeit).Adolescents (Persons who are between 14 and 17 years old) are individually criminal responsible, if committing the crime they are mature enough to realize the injustice of the crime and to act according to that realization. For those cases a special juvenile criminal law is used. At the age of 18 the full criminal responsibility starts, but for adolescents and young adults (in the age of 18 – 21 years) the juvenile criminal law can still be applied, if at the time the crime is committed the young adult is still in a moral and mental state of development that compares to an adolescent or when the crime can be seen as a youth misconduct. From the age of 21 years on the adults criminal law is applied. Subject-matter series 10, series 3 of the statistics on criminal prosecution of the Federal Statistical Office report from the year 1978 the composition of the criminal responsible German population for the first of January of the corresponding year, structured by sex and age group. For Germany in the frontiers after the third October of 1990 data on the criminal responsible population in the subject-matter series 10, series 3, is available only from 2007. The data of the present study refers to the population level in the end of the year (as at 31.12 and is gathered by the population census and calculated by the current population estimations. Tables 01 to 20 contain data on the German and the foreign population altogether. Table 21 reports on the foreign population after the results of the censuses and the current population estimation. In table 22 the foreign population at the age from 0 to 15 years was estimated, using the aged grouped data of the Central Register of Foreign Nationals and the results from table 21. These are the categories used: Not criminal responsible population:- Children under the age of 8 years- Children from 8 to less than 14 years Criminal responsible population:Adolescents:- Adolescents, from14 to less than 16 years- Adolescents, from16 to less than 18 years- Adolescents, from14 to less than 18 years Criminal responsible population:Young adults:- Young adults: (from 18 to fewer than 21 years) Criminal responsible population:-Young adults and adults (from 18 years on) Criminal responsible population:Adults:- Adul...

The city states of Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen were the states with the three highest crime rates in Germany in 2020, while the federal state of Bavaria had the lowest. Urban areas generally have higher crime rates than rural ones, making it difficult to compare Germany's three city states with the much larger federal states, which typically cover quite large areas. The federal state with the highest crime rate was Saxony-Anhalt at 7996 crimes per 100 thousand people, compared with the German average of 6209.

Information on the number of suspects in the case of German suspects (disaggregation by offence, total number of suspects, by sex, by age)

In 2023, about ***** people were threatened with a firearm in Germany. About ***** were shot with some type of firearm, this was an increase compared with the previous year.

The number of criminal offenses recorded in Germany fluctuated during the specified period. In 2023, around **** million crimes were registered, compared to **** million in 2015. The data are based on police criminal statistics, which are compiled by the Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt). The statistics include all criminal offenses known to the police, as well as attempts to commit a crime. Not included are minor breaches of the law, crimes against the state and traffic offenses.

Die Studie verbindet eine von Heinz-Günter Heiland bearbeitete Datensammlung zur Entwicklung der Eigentums- und Vermögenskriminalität von 1953 bis 1980 in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland mit einem Überblick zu wichtigen Indikatoren der Kriminalitätsentwicklung aus der polizeilichen Kriminalstatistik (PKS, Quelle: Bundeskriminalamt) von 1954 bis 2003 und der Straffverfolgungsstatistik (StVStat, Quelle: Statistisches Bundesamt) von 1954 bis 2002. Die speziellen Zeitreihen zu einzelnen Delikten der Eigentums- und Vermögenskriminalität wurden um weitere Straftaten ergänzt. Im Einzelnen sind aus der Kriminalstatistik folgende Statistiken berücksichtigt: - Gesamtzahl aller der Polizei bekannt gewordenen Straftaten,- Gesamtzahl aller von der Polizei aufgeklärten Straftaten,- Aufklärungsquote, bezeichnet das prozentuale Verhältnis von polizeilich aufgeklärten zu polizeilich bekannt gewordenen Fällen, - Straftaten nach ausgewählten Straftatengruppen, - Gesamtzahl aller von der Polizei registrierten Tatverdächtigen (einschl. strafunmündiger Kinder unter 14 Jahren) und Zahl der strafmündigen Tatverdächtigen, - Zahl der Abgeurteilten und Verurteilten,- Verurteilte nach ausgewählten Deliktsgruppen. Themen: Sachliche Untergliederung der Datentabellen in der ZA-Online-Datenbank HISTAT: A. Historischer RückblickA.1 Entwicklung der rechtskräftig festgestellten Straffälligkeit in Deutschland: Verurteilte seit 1885 (1885-1959)A.2 Verurteilte nach Hauptdeliktgruppen seit 1882 (1882-1970) B. Basistabellen zur Wohnbevölkerung für die Umrechnung in Tatverdächtigen- bzw. Verurteiltenziffern C. Zeitreihen zur Entwicklung der Eigentums- und Vermögenskriminalität von 1953 bis 1980 (H.-G-. Heiland) nach der Polizeilichen Kriminalstatistik (PKS des Bundeskriminalamtes) D. Strafverfolgung nach der Strafverfolgungsstatistik (StVStat des Statistischen Bundesamtes) E. Tatverdächtige nach der Polizeilichen Kriminalstatistik (PKS Bundeskriminalamt): Ausgewählte Daten bis zum Jahr 2003 In this study the data-collection of H.-G. Heiland about the development of offences against property and capital from 1953 to 1980 in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) is joined with a survey of the main-indicators of delinquency-development, collected by the police delinquency-statistics (German abbreviation: PKS, Source: Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Office of Criminal Investigation)) from 1954 to 2003 as well as with the prosecution statistics (german abbreviation: StVStat, Source: Federal Statistical Office (Statistisches Bundesamt)) from 1954 to 2002. The time series on single offences within the field of property and capital related crime were completed by other important indicators related to crime in the Federal Republic of Germany The following statistics of the police delinquency-statistics (PKS) has been included:- total number of all crimes registered by the police, - total number of crimes solved by the police, - ratio of solved crimes (defines the percentage of crimes solved by the police as compared to the registered cases), - criminal offences by selected delict-groups- total number of suspects registered by the police (the respective figures include children below the age of criminal responsibilty, which is 14 years), - number of suspects at the age of criminal responsibilty (from 14 years on), - number of abjudicated persons and convicts. - convicted persons by delict-groups Topics: Factual classification of the tables in HISTAT: A. Historical review B. Basic table of residence population for the conversion of total numbers into figures related to suspects and convicts C. Time series of the development of property and capital related crime from 1953 to 1980 (H.-G. Heiland) according to the police delinquency-statistics (PKS of the Federal Office of Criminal Investigation) D. Prosecution according to the prosecution statistics (german abbreviation: StVStat) E. Suspects according to the delinquency-statistics (german abbreviation: PKS): Selected Series up to 2003. Quellen: Amtliche Kriminalstatistiken. Datensammlung, veröffentlichende Stelle auf Bundesebene. Bundeskriminalamt: Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik (PKS). Statistisches Bundesamt: Strafverfolgungsstatistik (StVStat). Heiland, H.-G., 1982: Kriminalstatistische Arbeitsmaterialien II. Sources: Official Delinquency-Statistics. Data-collection, publishing office at federal level. Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (Bundeskriminalamt): Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik (PKS). Federal Statistical Office (Statistisches Bundesamt): Strafverfolgungsstatistik (StVStat). Heiland, H.-G., 1982: Kriminalstatistische Arbeitsmaterialien II.

In 2023, German police recorded around 1.97 million cases of theft crime in the country. These included 77,819 cases of burglary with housebreaking. Theft crimes were among the most reported in Germany.

In 2023, around 633 of 100,000 females in Germany aged 14 to 18 years were victims of crimes against sexual self-determination in Germany. The data show both attempted and completed criminal acts.

This statistic shows the development of the number of politically motivated offenses in Germany from 2001 to 2023, by type. In 2023, ****** cases of left-wing crime were recorded, compared to ***** the previous year. In the same years, there were ****** and ****** recorded cases of right-wing crime respectively.

In 2023, the frequency number of criminal offenses in Hamburg per 100,000 inhabitants amounted to ******. This was an increase from around ****** criminal offenses per 100,000 inhabitants in the previous year.

The number of murders declined considerably in Czechia in the observed period. Although the murder count initially grew from *** in 1991 to a high of *** in 1998, this figure decreased to *** murders in 2023. The lowest number of murders was recorded in 2021 at *** murders in the whole year. Czechia’s criminal situation The Czech Criminal Code defines murder as the intentional killing of another person, with a minimum sentencing of eight to ten years. Such a criminal act is not very common in Czechia. After all, in 2022, the total number of registered criminal acts in Czechia amounted to *******, so the proportion of murders is small.The number of registered crimes is related to the criminal code of each country. However, Czechia was among the ten countries with the highest incarceration rate in Europe in 2022, which in this case is defined as the number of prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants. The high incarceration rate in Czechia is sometimes attributed to long prison sentences, meaning that people accumulate in prisons despite fewer people being sentenced than in other countries lower on the list. Is Czechia a safe country? Despite the high incarceration rate, Czechia is considered to be a very safe country. As of 2023, it was the **** most peaceful country ranked according to the Global Peace Index, which assesses the safety and security of society. It ranked above some fellow European countries like Germany, Finland, and the Netherlands.

In 2020, ***** cases of money laundering were recorded in Germany. This was a decrease compared to 2019. The data are based on police criminal statistics, which are compiled by the Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt).

In Europe, the Baltic countries of Latvia and Lithuania had the highest and third highest homicide rates respectively in 2022. Latvia had the highest rate at over four per 100,000 inhabitants. Meanwhile, the lowest homicide rate was found in Liechtenstein, with zero murders The most dangerous country worldwide Saint Kitts and Nevis is the world's most dangerous country to live in in terms of murder rate. The Caribbean country had a homicide rate of 65 per 100,000 inhabitants. Nine of the 10 countries with the highest murder rates worldwide are located in Latin America and the Caribbean. Whereas Celaya in Mexico was listed as the city with the highest murder rate worldwide, Colima in Mexico was the city with the highest homicide rate in Latin America, so the numbers vary from source to source. Nevertheless, several Mexican cities rank among the deadliest in the world when it comes to intentional homicides. Violent conflicts worldwide Notably, these figures do not include deaths that resulted from war or a violent conflict. While there is a persistent number of conflicts worldwide, resulting casualties are not considered murders. Partially due to this reason, homicide rates in Latin America are higher than those in countries such as Ukraine or the DR Congo. A different definition of murder in these circumstances could change the rate significantly.