Sexual violence up 16% in Italy in 2022

Sexual violence up 16% in Italy in 2022
Sexual violence was as soon as up 16% in Italy in the first 10 months of 2022 in contrast to the identical length in 2021, in accordance to a year-end survey launched by way of the Italian police pressure command on Friday.
On the one-of-a-kind hand, persecutory acts or stalking reduced by way of 10.3% and there is also a 3.9% minimize in household violence., in accordance to the report from the Central Directorate of Criminal Police.
There have been 309 murders in Italy in 2022 and some 122 victims had been women, the document said.
Crimes by means of way of minors have been greater than in the pre-pandemic period, the file additionally said.
Comparing the first ten months of 2019 (i.e. in the pre-pandemic period) with these of 2022, there was once a 14.3% make bigger in the broad variety of minors said and arrested, with peaks concerning sure sorts of crimes: assaults 53.8%, voluntary homicides 35.3% (17 in absolute rate in 2019, 23 in 2022), tried murders 65.1%, 33.8% injuries, 50% beatings, 75.3% robberies ( 91.2% for these in public street).
Analysing the first ten months of the year, there is an lengthen of spherical 20 per cent of thefts in contrast to 2021 (by 19.7 per cent). In the equal reference period, robberies grew with the resource of 18.2%: a decide that is an frequent at some point of the more than a few types of robbery, which see an enlarge of 20.7% for these committed in the public street.
The file states that the decide for robberies is however decrease than in the pre-pandemic period: it used to be 887,905 in the first ten months of 2019, compared to 782,391 in the equal period of 2022 (and 653,889 in the first ten months of 2021).
Via ANSA