Recorded Crime Victims 2021 and Suspected Offenders 2020

Four out of every five (81.5%) victims of Sexual offences were female in 2021 and this continued the trend since 2018. Of the 2,892 reported victims of Sexual offences in 2021, 2,357 were female while 535 were male. See Table 1.1.

There were 27 male (69.2%) and 12 female (30.8%) victims of crime incidents of Homicide offences in 2021 in Ireland. Of this, 16 males and 8 females were victims of Murder or manslaughter. A further 11 males and 4 females were killed in incidents involving Dangerous Driving Leading to Death. See Table 1.1 and Figure 1.1.

Just over half (55.6%) of victims of physical assault and related offences recorded in 2021 were male.

Statistics in respect of the age and sex of victims are presented in further detail in Recorded Crime Victims 2021.

A crime is recorded as detected when a person has been identified as the perpetrator by An Garda Síochána and that person has been issued with a sanction such as a charge, summons or caution. The person sanctioned is termed the suspected offender.

Nearly all suspected offenders (97.7%) of detected sexual violence crimes reported in Ireland in 2020 were male.

Suspected offenders of Homicide offences totalled 73 in 2020 and was split in nearly equal measure between Murder and Manslaughter and Dangerous Driving leading to Death. In total, males accounted for nine out of every ten (89.0%) suspected offenders of Homicide and the gender split was quite similar for each of the two constituent categories.  See Table 1.2.

Four in five (80.3%) of suspected offenders of detected Attempts/threats to Murder, assaults, harassments and related offences in 2020 were male.  See Table 1.2 and Figure 1.2.