OCR Output

JAN VAN DIJK

after the Composite Organized Crime Index" covers app. 150 countries for the
period 2006-2019.

RESULTS

Table 1 presents the results from the GWP surveys in the years 2006-2019 for
the two items just described separately and combined for four European regions
following the common UN classification (see table 2 for number of countries
per region).

Table 1. Prevalence of victimization by Theft, Violence (Assault/Muggings) and Theft

and/or Violence combined per European region”

Theft (%) Violence (Assault/muggings) (%) Theft and/or Violence (%)
Region
2006- | 2011- | 2015- | 2006- | 2006- | 2011- | 2015- | 2006- | 2006- | 2011- | 2015- | 2006¬
2010 2014 2019 2019 2010 2014 2019 2019 2010 2014 2019 2019
Europe 11 12 9 11 4 3 3 4 16 10 12 14
Northern
13 11 9 11 3 -- 3 3 16 -- 11 13
Europe
Western
11 13 11 12 4 -- 4 4 15 -- 15 15
Europe
Eastern
13 11 8 11 4 3 2 3 17 10 11 13
Europe
Southern
9 12 10 10 5 -- 4 4 15 -- 13 14
Europe

Over the full period the level of victimization by common crime has not differed
much across the four regions, with the highest rate in Western Europe (15). Table
2 presents the estimated linear change in percentage point changes between 2006
and 2019.

1 Jan Van Dijk, Mafia markers: Assessing organized crime and its impact upon societies,
Trends in organized crime 10 (2007), 39-56; Van Dijk, The world of crime.

2 Gallup, Gallup World Poll 2006-2019, https://www.gallup.com/analytics/318875/global¬
research.aspx; Van Dijk et al., Global crime patterns.

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