Press Statement

Preasráiteas

15 May 2020

Go to release: Recorded Crime Victims 2019 and Suspected Offenders 2018

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (15 May 2020) published statistics relating to persons recorded as victims and as suspected offenders of crimes including homicides, sexual violence and physical assaults and related offences in Ireland, based on data recorded by An Garda Síochána.

Commenting on the release, Sam Scriven, Statistician, said: "The figures published today provide detail on the age and gender of both victims and suspected offenders of serious crimes reported to An Garda Síochána.

In 2019, 82% of homicide victims were males, while 59% of victims of reported physical assault and related offences were males. However, as in the previous year’s findings, more than 4 in 5 victims (81%) of reported sexual violence incidents were females.

The reporting of sexual violence crimes by victims, which continued to increase in 2019, encompasses the reporting of incidents which occurred recently (62% within one year), as well as the reporting of historic cases of sexual violence. Almost 90% of the cases which occurred within one year involved female victims. Almost a quarter (24%) of sexual violence crime reported to An Garda Síochána in 2019 referred to incidents which took place ten or more years prior to being reported. 

In 2018, most suspected offenders in detected homicide, sexual violence, and physical assault and related crimes were male. Just one in 50 suspected offenders in sexual violence crimes in 2018 was female. 84 suspected offenders for detected sexual violence crimes (19%) were aged under 18 when the crime took place."

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