Third Periodical Report on Crime and Crime Control in Germany

More than fifteen years after the publication of the Second Periodical Report on Crime and Crime Control in Germany, the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community (BMI) and the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV) present an up-do-date picture of the development of crime trends and the security situation in Germany.

This Third Periodical Report on Crime and Crime Control focuses more closely on specific current issues. After a general section with a short overview of the crime situation and trends in Germany, there is a special section devoted to selected issues such as violent phenomena in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, crime motivated by right-wing ideology, and new forms of grooming, stalking and bullying offences in cyberspace. These phenomenon areas were selected in particular on account of their topicality and their significant impact on the security and sense of security of citizens in Germany.

Although Germany is already one of the safest countries in the world, it remains a central task of the state to continually improve its citizens’ security. In order to recognise where there is a need to take action and to be able to develop effective concepts for fighting crime, policymakers require an up- to-date survey of the crime situation that goes beyond a simple analysis of the available crime and judicial statistics. The Third Periodical Report on Crime and Crime Control presents such a survey for selected issues and links the development of crime with scientific studies on the manifestations and causes of crime.

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