Northern Ireland Crime Stats
Definitions
- Assault rate: Number of assaults recorded by police per 100,000 population
- Assaults: Number of assaults recorded by police in that country per 100,000 population.
- Auto theft: Number of motor vehicle thefts (car thefts) recorded by police in that country per 100,000 population.
- Burglaries: Number of burglaries recorded by police in that country per 100,000 population.
- Drugs > Lifetime cannabis use: Adult lifetime cannabis use.
- Human trafficking > Number prosecuted: Number of people prosecuted for tracking in persons (people smuggling) by country.
- Judges: Number of professional judges per 100,000 population.
- Kidnappings: Number of kidnappings recorded by police in that country per 100,000 population.
- Murder rate: Homicide rate per year per 100,000 inhabitants in various countries.
- Murders committed by youths: Homicide rates among youths aged 10–29 years by country or area: most recent year available (variable 1990–1999).
- Police officers: Number of police officers per 100,000 population.
- Robberies: Number of robberies recorded by police in that country per 100,000 population.
- Serious assault rate: Number of major assaults recorded by police per 100,000 population
- 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.
SOURCES: European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control International Statistics on Crime and Justice, 2011; European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control International Statistics on Crime and Justice, 2011; Mostly Table GPS-8 Part (i) ''Lifetime prevalence of drug use among all adults (aged 15 to 64 years old) in nationwide surveys among the general population'' EMCDDA (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction) unless otherwise referred on Wikipedia: Adult lifetime cannabis use by country; World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002; Wikipedia: List of countries by intentional homicide rate by decade
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Did you know
- You're 15 times more likely to be assaulted in Northern Ireland than Ireland itself.
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