Editing Vatican City (section)

==== Crime ====
{{Main|Crime in Vatican City}}
[[File:Crowds in St. Peter's Square.jpg|thumb|The crowds of tourists in [[St. Peter's Square]] are a target for pickpockets.]]

Crime in Vatican City consists largely of purse snatching, [[pickpocketing]] and [[shoplifting]] by outsiders.<ref name="crime rate">{{Cite news |date=8 January 2003 |title=Vatican crime rate 'soars' |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2639777.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080108222354/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2639777.stm |archive-date=8 January 2008 |access-date=28 November 2007 |publisher=BBC}}</ref> The tourist foot-traffic in [[St. Peter's Square|St Peter's Square]] is one of the main locations for pickpockets in Vatican City.<ref>{{Citation |title=Vatican surpasses all nations... in pickpockets? |date=14 February 2011 |work=Rome Reports |url=https://www.romereports.com/palio/vatican-surpasses-all-nations-in-pickpockets-english-3545.html#.UPt_Wc0hclk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115144215/https://www.romereports.com/palio/Vatican-surpasses-all-nations-in-pickpockets-english-3545.html |archive-date=15 November 2012}}</ref> If crimes are committed in the square, the perpetrators may be arrested and tried by the Italian authorities, since that area is normally patrolled by Italian police.<ref>Glatz, Carol (19 December 2013) [https://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2013/man-seriously-injured-after-setting-self-on-fire-in-st-peter-s-square.cfm "Man seriously injured after setting self on fire in St. Peter's Square"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621003837/https://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2013/man-seriously-injured-after-setting-self-on-fire-in-st-peter-s-square.cfm |date=21 June 2019 }}. ''Catholic News Service''</ref>

Under the Lateran Treaty,<ref name=Statute/> Italy will, at the request of the Holy See, punish individuals for crimes committed within the Vatican City and will itself proceed against the person who committed the offence, if that person takes refuge in Italian territory. Persons accused of crimes recognized as such both in Italy and in Vatican City that are committed in Italian territory will be handed over to the Italian authorities if they take refuge in the Vatican City or in buildings that enjoy immunity under the treaty.<ref name=Statute/><ref>{{Cite web |last=Shea |first=Alison |date=2009 |title=Researching the Law of the Vatican City State |url=https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/vatican1.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017130729/https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Vatican1.htm |archive-date=17 October 2013 |website=Hauser Global Law School Program |publisher=[[New York University School of Law]]}}</ref>

The Vatican City has no prison system, apart from a few detention cells for pre-trial detention.<ref>{{Citation |title=How Does Vatican City Deal With Criminals? |date=30 May 2012 |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |url=https://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2012/05/paolo_gabriele_case_how_does_the_vatican_deal_with_criminals_.html |access-date=18 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824035613/http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2012/05/paolo_gabriele_case_how_does_the_vatican_deal_with_criminals_.html |archive-date=24 August 2018}}</ref> People convicted of committing crimes in the Vatican serve terms in Italian prisons ([[Polizia Penitenziaria]]), with costs covered by the Vatican.<ref>"[https://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,460967,00.html Is the Vatican a Rogue State?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406122805/http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,460967,00.html |date=6 April 2012 }}" ''[[Spiegel Online]]''. 19 January 2007. Retrieved 25 August 2010.</ref>