Contact Admin. Figures released from Istat show the crime rates across Italy, and reveal a drop in overall reported crime for the first time in four years.
But to assess whether the country has actually got safer, it's important to look at the different types of crime, and the geographical divide. Milan is — by a long way — the top city when it comes to theft, with around 7, complaints per , residents. It is followed by university city Bologna which counts almost 7, per , residents, and then Florence 6, Turin 5, , Catania 5, and Rome 5, , showing that Northern Italy is much more prone to thefts than the south.
Using the interactive map below, produced by Il Corriere, you can see how safe your hometown is by comparing rates of different crimes. However, in terms of robberies, the south of the country is much more afflicted.
Naples incidents per , residents is followed by Catania , Milan , Turin and Bari The three worst cities for sexual assault were Bologna, Florence and Milan. Prostitution-related crimes were also more rife in the north of the country, with Trieste reporting 7, crimes of this kind per , residents, followed by Catania 7, , Ravenna 5, , Ancona 5, and Alessandria 5, Prostitution itself is legal in Italy but brothels and pimping are not. Turin reported nearly 1, crimes of 'malicious damage' per , inhabitants, followed by Genoa 1, , Milan 1, and Florence 1, , while no other region reported over 1, La mappa del crimine italiano via corriereit e su dataBlog https: But the good news is that violent crime rates have either remained stable or experienced a drop since , particularly murder rates which have seen a steady year-on-year drop apart from Deaths linked to organized crime have also decreased.
Crimes against property and thefts are on the up, as well as robberies which have increased for the past three years.
