Homicide rates only represent the most extreme form of contact crime and thus they do not inform of more typical safety conditions. They have however the strong advantage of being among the best comparable safety statistics available and of suffering the least from underreporting and idiosyncratic classification. Crime victimization surveys are a useful tool for measuring people‟s experiences with respect to other types of crimes. While many countries have undertaken national victimisation surveys, these are typically infrequent and differ across countries in several aspects. Even when relying on comparable victimisation surveys, self-reported victimisation may suffer from under-reporting (United Nations 2010). Additional useful measures of personal security would measure crimes against property, non-conventional crimes (such as frauds), as well as people‟s perception of safety in their community and their confidence in law enforcement agencies. While these data exist, they are not fully comparable across OECD countries and therefore not presented here.