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The third generation of people with a non-western background have parents born in the Netherlands, and at least one grandparent born in a non-western country. At the request of the Ministry of...

The Dutch popluation has been less affected by crime in recent years. At the end of 2008, one in four people in the Netherlands said they had been the victim of a criminal offence in the previous...

Last year, 1.2 million crimes were registered by the police, about the same amount as in 2006.

20 percent of the Dutch population aged 15 years and older do not feel safe at times.

There is hardly any difference between what Dutch people in urban and rural areas define as urgent national problems.

In 2005, more than 3 percent of people aged between 12 and 25 were questioned by the police as crime suspects, as against 2 percent five years ago.

This year, 26 percent of the 15-and-over population in the Netherlands reported that they had been victimes of common crime, as against 29 percent two years ago; the number of offences experienced by...

At the beginning of 2006, fewer people in the Netherlands did not feel safe than twelve months previously. People living in Zeeland felt safest. The number of crimes people experienced was also down,...

In 2004 a quarter of the Dutch population indicated they had been victims of common crime. This is about the same as in 2003 but less than in 2002. The share of violent crime victims fell slightly in...