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.

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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 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.

The Italian police recorded over 1,100 hate crimes in 2023. 264 were classified as incitement to violence, which was the most common hate crime that occurred in Italy. Further 165 hate crimes were the desecration of graves. The cases recorded were hate crimes having ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, anti-Semitism as bias-motivation, as well as bias against Roma and Sinti, and people with disabilities. Targeted groups of hate crimes   Most of the known hate crimes were related to racism and xenophobia. In 2020, more than 800 reports concerned this bias. Among these crimes, the most frequent ones were incitement to violence, desecration of graves, physical assaults, and threats. People with disabilities were the second most targeted group. Opinion on measures against this growing hate   In the last years, the number of hates crimes in Italy rose. However, in a survey conducted in 2019, most of the Italians believed that the measures adopted against discrimination were effective. In October 2019, the Italian Senate voted in favor of the establishment of a special committee to combat racial hate. A survey about this Extraordinary Commission show that a large part of Italian interviewees was in favor of its establishment. The Commission was proposed by the Senator Liliana Segre, Holocaust survivor. In fact, the committee was also named “Segre Commission”.

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.

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 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.

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 2019, the forced evictions of Roma and Sinti communities living in Rome amounted to 45 cases. However, the year were the most forced displacements occured was in 2015. Such operations costed about 1.3 million euros in 2019. This amount was spent for the evictions of about one thousand people. Forced evictions were a very popular topic in the political debates of the leader of the right-wing party Lega, Matteo Salvini. The politician actively promoted forced displacements of Roma and Sinti communities as well as migrant camps.

Target group of racist attacks  

In Italy, Roma and Sinti were often victims of hate speech such as stereotyped speeches and incitement to hatred and discrimination. For instance, in 2018, 102 cases of hate speech against Roma and Sinti were recorded nationwide. Among these, 87 events were related to stereotypes about these communities. Most cases of hate speech occured in the Central region of Lazio, the region in which Rome is situated.

Hate speech in Italy  

Between 2014 and 2018, the number of hate crimes, including cases of hate speech and discrimination, experienced a significant increase. In 2014, almost 600 cases were recorded by the police in Italy. Whereas, the attacks rose up to 1.1 thousand crimes in 2018. The xenophobic crimes registered by the Italian police concerned mainly incitements to violence. More specifically, 337 cases of incitements to racial violence were reported in 2017.

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.