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Measuring Ireland's Progress 2013

Society - Crime

1.15 Ireland: Recorded crimes by type of offence, 2008, 2012 and 2013

Irish Crime Classification System (ICCS) Offence group	2008	2012	2013
Homicide offences	89	79	83
Sexual offences	1,406	2,116	2,014
Attempts/threats to murder, assaults, harassment and related offences	19,150	15,710	14,488
Dangerous or negligent acts¹	238,914	258,860	:
Kidnapping and related offences	77	101	121
Robbery, extortion and hijacking offences	2,299	2,817	2,805
Burglary and related offences	24,682	28,133	26,185
Theft and related offences	76,861	76,402	78,763
Fraud, deception and related offences	5,410	5,791	4,827
Controlled drug offences	23,404	16,450	15,384
Weapons and explosives offences	4,016	3,038	2,749
Damage to property and to the environment	44,626	32,428	28,925
Public order and other social code offences	61,820	43,861	36,455
Road and traffic offences (NEC)¹	332,363	188,442	:
Offences against government, justice procedures and organisation of crime	13,278	9,445	9,121
Offences not elsewhere classified¹	3,505	2,953	:
	Source: CSO Crime Statistics
¹Data for 2013 not yet available.

The number of kidnapping and related offences increased by 57% between 2008 and 2013, rising from 77 recorded offences in 2008 to 121 in 2013.
The number of sexual offences rose by 43% over the same time period, from 1,406 to 2,014 offences while the number of robbery, extortion and hijacking offences increased by 22%, from 2,299 to 2,805.
Between 2008 and 2013 the number of public order and other social code offences fell by 41%, dropping from 61,820 recorded offences to 36,455.
There were decreases of just over a third in offences involving damage to property and to the environment and in controlled drug offences over the same time period.

1.16 Ireland: Detection rates for recorded crimes, 2008, 2012 and 2013

Irish Crime Classification System (ICCS) Offence group	2008	2012	2013
Homicide offences	84.3	75.9	81.9
Sexual offences	61.7	56.0	49.5
Attempts/threats to murder, assaults, harassment and related offences	59.8	60.8	61.6
Dangerous or negligent acts¹	99.4	99.6	:
Kidnapping and related offences	57.1	60.4	65.3
Robbery, extortion and hijacking offences	50.2	45.8	40.6
Burglary and related offences	26.4	21.9	20.2
Theft and related offences	38.1	34.7	33.3
Fraud, deception and related offences	53.3	44.0	41.0
Controlled drug offences	99.0	98.7	98.9
Weapons and explosives offences	90.9	89.1	89.9
Damage to property and to the environment	22.3	21.8	22.3
Public order and other social code offences	93.5	93.6	93.6
Road and traffic offences (NEC)¹	99.2	99.0	:
Offences against government, justice procedures and organisation of crime	98.4	98.7	98.9
Offences not elsewhere classified¹	68.9	51.6	:
	Source: CSO Crime Statistics
¹ Data for 2013 not yet available

The detection rate for kidnapping and related offences rose by 8.2 percentage points between 2008 and 2013 while the rate for attempts/threats to murder, assaults, harassment and related offences rose by 1.8 percentage points.
Over the same time period, the detection rates for fraud, deception and related offences and for sexual offences fell by over 12 percentage points.
Certain crimes, by their nature, are detected more frequently than others, such as dangerous or negligent acts (which are mainly speeding offences) and road and traffic offences.

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