Korean Crime Victim Survey in 2024
Hyungmin Bark(Senior Research Fellow, KICJ)
Jisun Choi(Research Fellow, KICJ)Jaekyung Ahn(Research Fellow, KICJ)
Hyo-Jong Song(Professor, Korea University Department of Sociology)
1. Overview of National Crime Vic...
Korean Crime Victim Survey in 2024
Hyungmin Bark(Senior Research Fellow, KICJ)
Jisun Choi(Research Fellow, KICJ)Jaekyung Ahn(Research Fellow, KICJ)
Hyo-Jong Song(Professor, Korea University Department of Sociology)
1. Overview of National Crime Victim Survey in 2024
□ Purpose
∙ National Crime Victim Survey is implemented every other year in order to investigate the extent and nature of both reported and unreported crime victimization cases, vulnerability factors contributing to criminal victimization, and public perception and attitude toward crime.
□ Scope of Survey
∙ National Crime Victim Survey in 2024 is basically the same as that of the existing National Crime Victim Survey, but it was conducted by supplementing the literature related to cybercrime. (※ There are some changes in detailed expressions and items. For specific major changes, please refer to the survey design in the report.)
∙ The Survey includes basic questionnaire (household representative /member) and incident-based questionnaire.
- Basic questionnaire: household composition, neighbor and neighborhood, routine activities and personal safety measures, personal background (length of residency, education, household monthly income, etc.), screening questions for crime victimization in the last year (2024).
- Incident-based questionnaire: (crime incidents in 2024) incidents time and date, location, and mode of crime, physical injury, victim reaction, property loss, psychological damage, offender profile, and report to police and case status, etc.
□ Sampling design and Survey methods
∙ Target population: All households within the region under administrative power in the Republic of Korea at the time of the survey and members of the family over the age of 14
∙ Survey Population: All households and members of the family over the age of 14, within general enumeration districts (1) and apartment enumeration districts (A) of the 2023 Population and Housing Census
∙ Stratification and Sampling
Region
First Stratification
Second Stratification
Number
Special Metropolitan Cities
Special Metropolitan Cities: 8
Seoul: 4 Regions
7 Metropolitan Cities
22
Provincial Region
Gyeonggi-do: 1
3 Regions/ Townships and Villagess
12
Province: 8
Townships and Villagess
32
- Systematic sampling (10 households from each enumeration district)
∙ Weighting: design weight, nonresponse adjusted weight, poststratification weight
∙ Data Collection: door-to-door survey using tablet-pc
∙ Survey cycle: two years (odd number)
∙ Survey period: 8.25.2025 – 10.2.2025
∙ Sample size: 14,732 participants over the age of 14 from 7,069 households
2. Main Findings from National Crime Victim Survey in 2024
□ Time series analysis of national crime victimization trend
∙ Number of crimes against individuals per 100,000 people by year
∙ Number of crimes committed per 100,000 households per year
□ Violent crimes and victimization
• Number of victims per 100,000 population by type of violent crime
• Age distribution of victims and offenders in violent crime
• Locations of violent crime victimization
• Whether violent crime victimization occurred online
□ Property Crime Victimization
• Number of victims by type of property crime (per 100,000 population)
• Age distribution of property crime victims
• Locations of property crime incidents
• Types of fraud victimization
□ Status of Police Reporting and Handling of Crime Victimization
• Reporting rate of property crime victimization
• Reporting rate of violent crime victimization
• Primary reason for reporting victimization
• Primary reason for not reporting victimization
• Satisfaction with police response by type of crime victimization
• Outcomes of police reports of crime victimization
□ Factors Predisposing to Crime Victimization
• Crime victimization rate by gender
• Crime victimization rate by age
• Crime victimization rate by marital status
• Crime victimization rate by educational attainment
□ Crime Awareness, Fear of Crime, and Crime Prevention Activities
• Perceptions of crime occurrence
• Level of fear of crime (5-point scale)
• Level of fear of crime by target (5-point scale)
• Level of crime prevention activities (5-point scale)
□ Cyber crimes and victimization
∙ Number of online crimes per 100,000 people
○ Cyber violence crimes
∙Sociodemographic characteristics of cyberviolent victims
∙ Online sexual crime victimization details
∙ Online harassment and stalking details
○ Cyber property crime
∙ Sociodemographic characteristics of online fraud victims
∙ Online fraud damage details
○ Personal information leaks and network attacks
∙ Sociodemographic characteristics of victims of personal information leaks and network attacks
∙ Details of personal information leaks and network attacks
○ Whether or not to report cybercrime damage
□ Release
∙ Analysis results from National Crime Victim Survey are available in various formats such as a report, micro-data, statistics database, and info-graphic.
∙ Report
- Korean Institute of Criminology and Justice : ww.kic.re.kr > publication > report (Korean Crime Victim Survey)
- DBpia : www.dbpia.co.kr
∙ Micro-data
- Korean Institute of Criminology and Justice Statistics Portal(CCJS): www.kicj.re.kr/stats/portal/Content.jsp
- Korea Social Science Data Archive homepage: kossda.snu.ac.kr
- Census Bureau MDIS: mdis.kostat.go.kr
∙ Statistics database
- Census Bureau National Statistics Portal KOSIS: www.kosis.kr
- Census Bureau National Indicator System K-indicator: www.index.go.kr