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.

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 2019, the Southern province of Naples had the largest number of homicide carried out by mafia organizations. Eleven of 28 voluntary manslaughters occurred in Naples. That year, all 28 homicides happened in the Southern regions or on the islands.

In 2019, Rome was the Italian city with the largest number of minors reported to the judicial authority. That year, there were 854 young Italians and 428 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 2018, the number of environmental crimes related to Mafia amounted to 1,360 in Naples, in Southern Italy. In these crimes, mafia was involved in the management of waste. Rome was the second Italian province for number of mafia environmental crimes. In the capital city, 1,037 violations in waste management were linked to mafia activities.

Most of the Italian cities in the ranking are Southern provinces. Indeed, in 2018, Southern Italian provinces recorded the highest number of complaints for mafia organizations in Italy.

In January 2021, the youth detention center of Nisida hosted 33 prisoners. This institute is located in Naples, in the southern region of Campania and ranked as the most populous youth detention center in Italy. Furthermore, the juvenile detention center of Turin (Ferrante Aporti), in the north of the country, counted 27 inmates, ranking second in the chart.