The most recent report of the Italian Ministry of the Interior reveals that between January and July 2025, 184 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, 117 women in Italy were victims of homicide, with a decreasing trend line since 2002. In 2003, the peak of 192 homicides of females was reached. Among the ones murdered in 2023, 48 women were killed by a partner, 15 by an ex-partner, and 31 by a relative.

In 2023, 117 women were killed in Italy., nine less compared to 2022. Specifically, more than half of the homicides were committed either by the partner or by the ex-partner of the victim, whereas in 27 percent of the cases, the killer was a relative of the victim.

Historical dataset showing Italy murder/homicide rate per 100K population by year from 1990 to 2021.

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This statistic illustrates the annual number of male victims of homicide in Italy in from 2010 to 2017. According to the data, the highest number of male victims was registered in 2011 (381 victims per 100,000 inhabitants of the same gender). As of 2017, the number of murders was the lowest during the concerned period, with 234 cases of man murdered in Italy.

Actual value and historical data chart for Italy Intentional Homicides Per 100 000 People

This statistic shows the number of murder cases committed by the Mafia in Italy from the firstsemester of 2015 to the second semester of 2017, by organization type. According to the study results, the Campanian Mafia committed the most killings over the selected period, and was responsible for 28 murder cases in the second half of 2017.

Italy IT: Intentional Homicides: per 100,000 People data was reported at 0.800 Ratio in 2015. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.800 Ratio for 2014. Italy IT: Intentional Homicides: per 100,000 People data is updated yearly, averaging 1.100 Ratio from Dec 1995 (Median) to 2015, with 21 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.776 Ratio in 1995 and a record low of 0.800 Ratio in 2015. Italy IT: Intentional Homicides: per 100,000 People data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Italy – Table IT.World Bank: Health Statistics. 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.; ; UN Office on Drugs and Crime's International Homicide Statistics database.; Weighted average;

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Italy IT: Intentional Homicides: Male: per 100,000 Male data was reported at 0.868 Ratio in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1.150 Ratio for 2015. Italy IT: Intentional Homicides: Male: per 100,000 Male data is updated yearly, averaging 1.497 Ratio from Dec 2000 (Median) to 2016, with 16 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2.070 Ratio in 2000 and a record low of 0.868 Ratio in 2016. Italy IT: Intentional Homicides: Male: per 100,000 Male data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Italy – Table IT.World Bank: Health Statistics. Intentional homicides, male are estimates of unlawful male 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.; ; UN Office on Drugs and Crime's International Homicide Statistics database.; ;

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.

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In 2019, the Southern province of Naples had the largest number of homicide carried out by mafia organizations. Eleven of ** voluntary manslaughters occurred in Naples. That year, all ** homicides happened in the Southern regions or on the islands.

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Matteo Messina Denaro, a Mafia boss convicted of organizing a slew of reprehensible crimes, was arrested in January 2023 after spending almost 30 years on the lam and becoming one of the most wanted people in Europe. A chief of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra family, 60-year-old Messina Denaro was detained by police while receiving treatment in a private clinic in Palermo. The criminal was convicted in absentia of dozens of Mafia-related murders, including his involvement in the 1992 assassinations of anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. The Mafia chief was awarded his most recent life sentence in 2020 for his role in deadly bombings that beset Milan, Florence, and Rome in 1993, as well as for the kidnapping, torture, and murder of the 12-year-old son of an enemy who testified against Cosa Nostra.Messina Denaro's arrest came almost 30 years to the day since police detained Cosa Nostra's "boss of bosses" Salvatore "Totò" Riina, who was nabbed in a Palermo apartment after spending 23 years on the run. Riina eventually died in prison in 2017, having never repented.The Cosa Nostra boss who set the record for the longest time on the run was Bernardo Provenzano, who spent 38 years as a fugitive before being caught in a farmhouse near Sicily's Corleone in 2006. Provenzano died in jail in 2016, and similarly to Riina, never chose to collaborate with investigators. The decline of Cosa Nostra and the rise of the Calabrian Mafia With the clampdown that began against Cosa Nostra in the 1990s, the Sicilian Mafia began to lose its dominance in Italy, amid the rise of other organized crime syndicates on the mainland. The 'Ndrangheta syndicate, based in the southern region of Calabria, has since then surpassed Cosa Nostra in both reach and influence. The 'Ndrangheta has supplanted Cosa Nostra in the drugs trade and has become one of the leading cocaine traffickers in the world. The Calabrian crime syndicate is estimated to rake in as much as 60 billion U.S. dollars per year – more than the GDP of countries such as Lebanon and Uruguay – and has a tight clan-like structure that is more difficult to penetrate than that of Cosa Nostra. Organized crime: controlling one-tenth of Italy's economy Organized crime has been reported to be the biggest business in Italy, controlling an estimated nine percent of the country's economy. The value of assets seized from mafia organizations in Italy between 2020 and 2021 amounted to almost two billion euros. In addition to the 'Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra, the mafia groups of Camorra and Sacra Corona Unita – based in the southern regions of Campania and Puglia, respectively – complete the top four of Italy's main crime syndicates.

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