Victims of criminal offences in Norway 2022, by type of crime and gender

In Norway, property theft was the type of crime that had the highest number of victims among both women and men in 2022. There were nearly 41,000 male and 29,000 female victims of this crime. Moreover, violence and maltreatment was the type of crime with the second highest number of victims among both men and women, with 17,000 and 15,000, respectively. Except for sexual offences, where there were significantly more female than male victims, men made up the highest number of victims of all types of crime in Norway in 2022.