Every third Czech has been crime victim - survey - Prague Daily Monitor
Prague, Jan 1 (CTK) - Every third adult Czech has ever become victim of a crime in his/her life, which is about three million people, experts from the Criminology and Social Prevention Institute have told CTK referring to victimology surveys.

The situation is roughly on European as well as U.S. level, Martin Cejp, from the institute said.

I was about to point out how lucky I was not to have been among the 33 percent of crime victims when I realized that I have had my apartment burgled in the late 1990s when I still lived in Prague. But overall I have to agree with the following statement:

Alena Maresova, from the institute, said that generally speaking, the Czech Republic is a relatively calm place to live in.

It has, for instance, a lower number of murders per capita than southern countries.

But it seems difficult to compare the numbers across countries:

The Czech Republic, for instance, works with the term continuing offence, which means that it counts break-ins into several weekend cottages as one crime, while Germany counts every particular attack.