Dancing with crime

Abstract

Crimes are crimes and every single incident acquires a victim. The Maltese crime scenario is a dynamic one: a scenario where the perpetrator and the victim dance to an ultimately one-sided tempo. One is hurt, the other a bit better off, but in some case the discrepancy between both can be staggering as the type of crime moves towards financial imperatives. As these islands become more and more populated, more economically diverse, adept at reducing less serious crime, in turn dangerousness proportionately grows, rendering the islands relatively more amenable to serious crimes.