ROMANIA AFTER 1989. TRENDS OF VIOLENT CRIMINALITY

The aim of this study is to highlight the fact that violent criminality is now a social phenomenon that records very high weights compared to other acts of criminality , both at national and European level. This first stage of our research on violent criminality was completed by conducting a secondary analysis of statistical data from national and European professional bodies (The Statistics Commission of the European Union, the National Institute of Statistics, the General Inspectorate of Romanian Police). Our results point out that the transition Romanian society has seen significant increases in the expression of violent criminality. Another result that we consider important is the fact that most of the violent criminality acts were committed in rural areas, making it a more "criminogenic" than urban area.If we consider the last two decades, we believe that the social etiology of the acts of violent criminality is linked to sociocultural, economic and political changes undergone by our country.