8 100 children under 15 years victims of violence and sexual offences
(WorldNews Norway)

In total, 140 000 different persons were registered as victims of 151 000 offences during 2017, according to new figures from the statistics Victims of offences reported to the police. This corresponds to 2.7 per cent of the Norwegian population reporting to be victims of an offence. This crime victimisation rate is 6.6 per cent lower than the year before and a fall of almost a third since 2004, when these victim statistics began. Over time, the major trends in crime statistics are particularly impacted by the decline in control-based reports and by the development in reported property theft. In 2017, 12.9 victims of property theft were registered per 1 000 population, which is 12 per cent...