NCJ Number
88769
Date Published
1981
Length
353 pages
Annotation
Diagrams and tabulations present crime trends and statistics on reported offenses in the West German State of North Rhine-Westphalia for 1981. Theft offenses constituted 69.8 percent of the crimes committed during the year.
Abstract
Information is given on the total crimes in the State between 1962 and 1981 and on the amount of crime by police district in 1981. Data on offender characteristics note age, sex, employment, and emphasize non-German nationality. Other tables show violent crime incidence, police use of deadly force, and crime incidences for specific offense categories such as homicide, rape, robbery, assault, theft, offenses involving automobiles, fraud, and drug-related crimes. Additional data are given on missing persons, crime rates in major West German cities, and the major crime centers of North Rhine-Westphalia. Most of the document consists of tabular data.