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classifications and ontologies

21 January 2026

The partners

Istat, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of the Interior are the main data producers for criminal judicial statistics in Italy. The Ministry of […]
16 March 2023

Synthetic classification of crimes

  The Italian synthetic classification of criminal offences used by Istat groups the elements of the Catalogue of Criminal Offences that constitute felonies, according to […]
16 March 2023

Navigator of the classification of crimes

The classification navigator is a tool that allows you to select, according to defined parameters, the tables of the  catalog of crimes, the synthetic classification, […]
16 March 2023

International classification of crimes

The International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), proposed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), aims to provide a comprehensive […]
16 March 2023

Crime groups

Offence groups are categories that cut across the groupings established for the classifications used by Istat or represent an attribute shared by multiple offences. They […]
16 March 2023

Classification of crimes

The relevance and complexity of the crime statistics published by Istat, which concern acts constituting violations of criminal law and the persons responsible for such […]
16 March 2023

Catalog of offences

The catalogue of criminal offences, also referred to as the offence thesaurus, is a list of legal classifications derived from the Criminal Codes and from […]
16 March 2023

Analytical classification of crimes

The so-called analytical classification of criminal offences is a version of the offence classification used by Istat that groups the elements of the Catalogue of […]
29 December 2020

Istat partecipates in INTERSTAT

Istat is proud to participate in the INTERSTAT project in the framework of the European “Connecting Europe Facility” Telecom instrument. The overall objective of the […]