Definition: Recorded crime

Category: Crime statistics

"Recorded crimes" may be understood to mean the number of penal code offences or their equivalent (i.e., various special law offences), but excluding minor road traffic offences and other petty offences, brought to the attention of the police or other law enforcement agencies and recorded by one of those agencies. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/SeriesF_89_EN.pdf