PART 1 Crime Trends in 2011
Chapter 1 Penal Code Offenses

Section 1 Principal Data

The principal data on penal code offenses in 2011 is as follows.

Principal 2011 penal code offense data
  (Changes from
the previous year)
[Change from 1992]
  • Note: With respect to negligence in vehicle driving causing death or injury, etc., the number of cleared cases was regarded as the number of reported cases.
  • Source: Criminal Statistics by National Police Agency
    The Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (population data)
[1] Reported cases
Penal code offenses 2,139,725 (-131,584, -5.8%) [-9.2%]
Non-traffic penal code offenses (included) 1,481,098 (-105,091, -6.6%) [-15.0%]
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft (included) 347,971 (-24,776, -6.6%) [+60.7%]
Negligence in vehicle driving causing death or injury, etc. (included) 658,627 (-26,493, -3.9%) [+7.4%]
[2] Cleared cases
Penal code offenses 1,121,500 (-61,309, -5.2%) [-10.2%]
Non-traffic penal code offenses (included) 462,873 (-34,816, -7.0%) [-27.3%]
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft (included) 156,949 (-12,954, -7.6%) [-6.5%]
[3] Persons cleared
Penal code offenses 986,068 (-43,049, -4.2%) [+6.8%]
Non-traffic penal code offenses (included) 305,951 (-17,005, -5.3%) [+7.4%]
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft (included) 137,437 (-10,305, -7.0%) [+4.5%]
Negligence in vehicle driving causing death or injury, etc. (included) 680,117 (-20,464, -2.9%) [+6.6%]
[4] Crime rate
Penal code offenses 1,674.3 (-99.4 points) [-216.7 points]
Non-traffic penal code offenses 1,158.9 (-79.7 points) [-239.8 points]
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft 272.3 (-18.8 points) [+98.5 points]
Negligence in vehicle driving causing death or injury, etc. 515.4 (-19.6 points) [+23.1 points]
[5] Clearance rate
Penal code offenses 52.4% (+0.3 points) [-0.6 points]
Non-traffic penal code offenses 31.3% (-0.1 points) [-5.3 points]
Non-traffic penal code offenses excluding theft 45.1% (-0.5 points) [-32.4 points]

Fig. 1-1-1-1 shows the number of reported cases, number of persons cleared, and clearance rate for penal code offenses since 1946 (See Appendix 1-1).

Fig. 1-1-1-1 Number of reported cases, persons cleared, and clearance rate for penal code offenses (1946-2011)

Fig. 1-1-1-1