The Crime Rate in Denmark by Alexander Nuyles

The crime rate in Denmark
By Alexander Nuyles Nielsen
Ordrup Gymnasium, 2.P

Hello there in Italy!
In my presentation of Denmark I will discuss the crime rate in our country. To be more specific, I will only discuss crimes that only violence, since criminality in an overall perspective is a very comprehensive and extensive subject.
In Denmark, we have an age of criminal responsibility at the age of 15, which means that any individual below 15 years of age is immune to our penalty law.
Some of the politicians in our government believe that the age of criminal responsibility should be lowered to the age of around 12 or 13 instead because of the fact that we at the moment are experiencing an increasing rate of violence being committed by individuals in this age group. While this is an on-going debate among some politicians, the violence in our country has increased over the last 5 years and is increasing year after year. This is manifested in our official Danish statistics at www.dst.dk website, as illustrated in the graph on page 2.
The majority of violence takes place in major cities such as our capital Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg and Odense. It typically occurs at night time during weekends where people are out to enjoy the city and usually end up intoxicated because of drugs and alcohol. People in this condition are more disposed to be violent and aggressive, thereby committing devastating actions.
Our media has also begun to frequently focus more on this issue by writing about it. As the media informs the public it on the other hand also has a scaring effect because people now begin to worry about their own safety when they walk the streets at night. As a consequence, people start to question the efforts from the police and therefore find it justifiable to legalize the right to protect them selves at any cost.
This means nowadays that some people in Denmark are armed with a knife or something equivalent as a protection because it makes them feel safer. Not only is it against the law here in Denmark to be armed, but it certainly also increases the danger of people getting hurt.
A lot of Danes believe that the violence in Denmark is generally caused by the foreigners from the Muslim countries.
This due to the fact that statistics show at the official Danish statistics at www.dst.dk website, that a lot of Muslims commit violence as compared to the number of Muslim immigrants in Denmark. It does not necessarily mean that all Muslims in general commit violence, but on the other hand statistics show that a minor group of Muslims commits violence over and over again.














It has not been my intention to scare you and make it sound Denmark is not a safe country to visit. I do not hope that my description of the violence rate in our country may have made you uncomfortable. The chances of getting assaulted at night in Copenhagen or other major cities are small, but if it happens to you, then you are very unfortunate. Unfortunately, statistics still show that violence has increased compared to previous years.