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Table 3 Homicides per 100.000 inhabitants and scores on the index for organised
crime/corruption and estimated linear changes over time"
Homicide ( per 100.000 inh.) Organised Crime (Scale: 0-100)
Prevalence Change] N. of Prevalence Change| N. of
2006- | 2011- | 2015- | 2006- | 2006- | coun- | 2007- | 2011- | 2015- | 2007- | 2007- | coun¬
2010 | 2014 | 2017 | 2017 | 2017 | tries | 2010 | 2014 | 2017 | 2017 | 2017 | tries
Region Rate Rate Rate Rate %p. N. 0-100 | 0-100 | 0-100 | 0-100 %p. N.
Europe 2 2 2 2 -1,1 40 46 48 47 47 1,1 40
Northern
3 2 2 2 -1,2 10 28 29 28 28 0,5 10
Europe
Western
1 1 1 1 -0,3 7 26 27 29 27 3,6 7
Europe
Eastern
4 3 3 3 -2,0 10 65 64 63 64 -2,4 10
Europe
Southern
2 2 1 2 -0,7 13 58 60 61 60 3,0 13
Europe
Table 3 shows that homicide rates are higher in Northern and Eastern Europe.
This distribution does not mirror the one of victimisation by assaults/muggings
presented in table 1. The trends show the largest decreases in just these two
regions, indicating once again convergence over time.
The results on organised crime/corruption present a strikingly different
picture. The level of organised crime/corruption is twice as high in Eastern and
Southern Europe than in the two other regions. The estimated linear change shows
an increase of 1 percentage point. This type of crime does not follow the general
downward trends of common crime reflected in tables 1 and 2. Only in Eastern
Europe a slight decrease has been measured. The variation in change over time
does not point at convergence between the North West and the South East parts
of Europe.
Finally, we have put together an overview of the results on the three types of
crime investigated, common crime, homicides and organised crime for the world
(159 countries) and for Europe (40 countries) and its four regions separately.
4 Van Dijk et al., Global crime pattern.
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