Victims of crime who contact support services for help or receive compensation from cantonal damages and compensation authorities. Assistance to victims includes consultations, emergency aid and longer-term aid from support services. Cantonal damages and compensation authorities can grant financial compensation and/or reparations.
Since 1st January 2017 are included all victims who contact a consultation centre according to the new victim status AFZFG.
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In focus
The main figures
| 2020 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|
| Victim consultations | ||
| Total | 43 263 | 44 633 |
| Female (%) |
73.1 |
73.6 |
| Juvenile (%) |
18.2 | 18.2 |
| Male perpetrator (%) |
78.6 | 78.6 |
| Offences suffered1 | ||
| Common assault, acts of aggression (%) |
47.9 | 45.8 |
| Threatening behaviour, coercion, extortion (%) | 33.1 | 32.6 |
| Indecent assault, rape (%) | 11.5 | 12.5 |
| Sexual acts with children (%) | 11.6 | 12.4 |
| Compensations (including advance compensation payments) | ||
| Total in CHF 1,000 | 1 419 | 1 051 |
| Reparations | ||
| Total in CHF 1,000 | 3 918 | 3 759 |
1) multiple offences possible Source: FSO - Victim support statistics
Human trafficking
The internationally agreed definition of human trafficking is the “recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons for the purpose of exploitation”. “Exploitation” means the exploitation of a person for sexual purposes, forced labour or the removal of human organs.
Support in cases of human trafficking and prostitution
Data updated: 16.05.2022
1) multiple answers possible Source: FSO - Victim support statistics
Database update: 16.05.2022
Source: FSO - Victim support statistics
Compensation and reparations for human trafficking/prostitution
Data updated: 16.05.2022
Source: FSO - Victim support statistics
| 2021 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Human trafficking | Prostitution | |
| Total cases of support | 271 |
140 |
| Victim characteristics | ||
| Aged up to 10 | 7 |
1 |
| 10-17 | 6 |
6 |
| 18-29 | 102 |
62 |
| 30-64 | 149 |
68 |
| Aged over 64 | 6 |
2 |
| Unknown | 1 |
1 |
| Sex of victim | ||
| Male | 42 |
5 |
| Female | 226 |
133 |
| Unknown | 3 |
2 |
| Nationality of victim | ||
| Swiss | 11 |
28 |
| European | 135 |
75 |
| Other | 105 |
26 |
| Unknown | 20 |
11 |
| Person given support1 | ||
| Victim or relative | 162 |
71 |
| Person of confidence | 6 |
5 |
| Specialist | 55 |
27 |
| Other | 2 |
0 |
| Unknown | 3 | 2 |
| Judicial enquiry | ||
| Yes | 173 |
83 |
| No | 61 |
36 |
| Unknown | 37 |
21 |
| Suspect | ||
| Male | 195 |
119 |
| Female | 113 |
51 |
| Unknown | 39 |
13 |
| Number of suspects | ||
| One perpetrator | 98 |
59 |
| Several perpetrators | 135 |
71 |
| Relationship between suspect/victim1 | ||
| With a relationship | 186 |
115 |
| of which family relationship | 25 |
13 |
1) multiple answers possible Source: FSO - Victim support statistics
Support by canton
| 2021 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Human trafficking | Prostitution | |
| Zurich | 90 |
71 |
| Bern | 23 |
11 |
| Lucerne | 5 |
1 |
| Uri | 0 | 0 |
| Schwyz | 10 |
9 |
| Obwalden | 0 |
0 |
| Nidwalden | 0 | 0 |
| Glarus | 1 |
0 |
| Zug | 0 |
1 |
| Fribourg | 1 | 5 |
| Solothurn | 3 |
1 |
| Basel-Stadt / -Landschaft | 24 |
9 |
| Schaffhausen | 0 | 0 |
| St Gallen and Appenzell | 16 |
6 |
| Graubünden | 1 |
0 |
| Aargau | 1 |
0 |
| Thurgau | 2 |
0 |
| Ticino | 4 |
1 |
| Vaud | 27 |
6 |
| Valais | 2 |
1 |
| Neuchâtel | 12 |
7 |
| Geneva | 48 |
10 |
| Jura | 1 |
1 |
| Foreign | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Human trafficking | Prostitution | |
| Compensation and reparations | 17 |
18 |
| Sex of victim17 | ||
| Female | 13 |
17 |
| Nationality of victim | ||
| Swiss | 0 | 2 |
| Foreign | 13 |
15 |
| Unknown | 4 |
1 |
| Judicial enquiry | ||
| Yes | 14 |
17 |
| No | 1 |
0 |
| Unknown | 2 |
1 |
Further information
Statistical sources and concepts
Contact
Federal Statistical Office Section Crime and Criminal JusticeEspace de l'Europe 10
CH-2010 Neuchâtel
Switzerland