Greece Crime Stats
Author: chris.lockyer781
Generally speaking, Greek criminal justice system does not deal with a significant amount of crime, based on its population size. In 2002, 102,783 crimes were reported in Greece, which equals to 9.35 crimes per 1,000 citizens. This is a pretty high amount of crimes for a country of 10.8 million. However, Greece used to be and still is a pretty safe country. Greeks are not too violent and statistics prove the same. There is less than one prisoner per 1,000 citizens. There are few car thefts (0.772 car thefts per 100 citizens), manslaughters (1.73 per 1 million citizens), rapes (218 in total) and violent crimes (1.55 violent crime per 100,000 people).
The “favorite” Greek crime is illicit drugs. Greece is used as a drug entry route to the European Union and the Western world. Even if illicit drugs’ problem is found in Greece, the major source of criminal activity is illegal immigration in Greece. Human traffickers have brought millions of illegal immigrants from third world countries. People from many countries including India, Afghanistan and Egypt live illegally in Greece, without proper jobs or housing. Illegal immigrants have to earn their living in difficult conditions and many of them turn to drug dealing as a solution. This is why 42.4% of people in Greek prisons are from foreign countries.
There are a considerable number of police officers (376.4 police officer per 100,000 citizens). But Greeks don’t seem to trust police because of frequent corruption scandals and slow response times to act quickly and decisively. In fact, an estimated 9.8 % of Greek senior managers admitted that corruption is a major business constraint for them.
Definitions
- Assault rate: Number of assaults recorded by police per 100,000 population
- Crime levels: Level of crime. Based on 0-50 contributions for Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria and 82 more countries and 50-100 contributions for Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria and 24 more countries and over 100 contributions for Australia, Brazil, Canada and 17 more countries. The surveys were conducted by numbeo.com from July, 2011 to February, 2014. See this sample survey for the United States, respondents were asked "How serious you feel the level of crime is?". The higher the value, the more survey respondents believe it is high in their country.
- Drugs > Annual cannabis use: Estimate of percentage of 15-64 year old population who use Cannabis.
- Drugs > Opiates use: Annual prevalence.
- Murder rate: Homicide rate per year per 100,000 inhabitants in various countries.
- Police officers: Number of police officers per 100,000 population.
- Rape rate: Number of rape incidents per 100,000 citizens in different countries. Figures do not take into account rape incidents that go unreported to the police.
- Suicide rates > Suicide rate (both sexes): Suicides per 100’000 residents per year.
- Total crimes: Note: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
- Violent crime > Gun crime > Guns per 100 residents: Number of privately owned small firearms per 100 residents.
- Violent crime > Intentional homicide rate: Homicides per 100’000 residents. Homicide is the death of a person purposefully inflicted by another person (it excludes suicides) outside of a state of war. Homicide is a broader category than murder, as it also includes manslaughter. The exact legal definition varies across countries, some of which include infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and deaths caused by dangerous driving.
- Violent crime > Murder rate: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population.
- Violent crime > Murder rate per million people: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
- Violent crime > Rapes: The number of recorded rapes. Large numbers of rapes go unreported. South Africa is estimated to have 500,000 rapes per year, Egypt 200,000, China 32,000 and the UK with 85,000 rapes per year.
- Violent crime > Rapes per million people: The number of recorded rapes. Large numbers of rapes go unreported. South Africa is estimated to have 500,000 rapes per year, Egypt 200,000, China 32,000 and the UK with 85,000 rapes per year. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
SOURCES: European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control International Statistics on Crime and Justice, 2011; crime; https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/WDR2011/World_Drug_Report_2011_ebook.pdf, World Drug Report 2011, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 2011, p. 217.; Wikipedia: List of countries by prevalence of opiates use ("World Drug Report 2011" . United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. 2011. "World Drug Report 2006" . United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. 2006. http://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2009/WDR2009_eng_web.pdf); UN Crime Stats; Wikipedia: List of countries by suicide rate (Suicide rates per 100,000 by country, year and sex (Table) ); The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); Annexe I of the Small Arms Survey 2007 ; Wikipedia: List of countries by intentional homicide rate by decade; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Source tables; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Statistics : Crime : Sexual Violence (UNODC) and Crime Statistics : Sexual Violence Against Children and Rape, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; Statistics : Crime : Sexual Violence (UNODC) and Crime Statistics : Sexual Violence Against Children and Rape, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.
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Greece Crime Profiles (Subcategories)
| Drugs 5 | Punishment 6 |
| Fear of crime 9 | Suicide rates 3 |
| Perceived problems 4 | Violent crime 8 |
| Prisoners 5 |
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Generally speaking, Greek criminal justice system does not deal with a significant amount of crime, based on its population size. In 2002, 102,783 crimes were reported in Greece, which equals to 9.35 crimes per 1,000 citizens. This is a pretty high amount of crimes for a country of 10.8 million. However, Greece used to be and still is a pretty safe country. Greeks are not too violent and statistics prove the same. There is less than one prisoner per 1,000 citizens. There are few car thefts (0.772 car thefts per 100 citizens), manslaughters (1.73 per 1 million citizens), rapes (218 in total) and violent crimes (1.55 violent crime per 100,000 people).
The “favorite” Greek crime is illicit drugs. Greece is used as a drug entry route to the European Union and the Western world. Even if illicit drugs’ problem is found in Greece, the major source of criminal activity is illegal immigration in Greece. Human traffickers have brought millions of illegal immigrants from third world countries. People from many countries including India, Afghanistan and Egypt live illegally in Greece, without proper jobs or housing. Illegal immigrants have to earn their living in difficult conditions and many of them turn to drug dealing as a solution. This is why 42.4% of people in Greek prisons are from foreign countries.
There are a considerable number of police officers (376.4 police officer per 100,000 citizens). But Greeks don’t seem to trust police because of frequent corruption scandals and slow response times to act quickly and decisively. In fact, an estimated 9.8 % of Greek senior managers admitted that corruption is a major business constraint for them.
Posted on 09 Apr 2014
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