NCJ Number
192184
Date Published
2001
Length
121 pages
Annotation
This survey measured crimes against adults (16 and over) living in private households in England and Wales during the year 2000.
Abstract
The 2001 British Crime Survey (BCS) showed a decrease between 1999 and 2000 in nearly all the offenses it measured. The decreases were statistically significant for burglary (17 percent), all vehicle-related theft (11 percent), other household theft (16 percent), and violent crime (19 percent). Overall, there was a 12 percent drop between 1999 and 2000 in BCS crime. Between 1995 and 2000, BCS crime fell by 33 percent, averaging around 6 percent per year. There was a 13 percent drop between 1999 and 2000 in BCS crimes that can be directly compared to police recorded offenses. The estimated drop in comparable police recorded crimes was 3 percent. The greater decrease in BCS crime than in police figures was largely associated with increases in the estimated proportion of crimes reported to the police, most evident for violent crime and some increases in recording. There were general increases in victims' assessment of the seriousness of their crime. However, between 2000 and 2001 the level of concern about crime decreased slightly across several crime categories. Notes, tables, figures, appendixes, glossary, references