NCJ Number
133370
Date Published
1991
Length
10 pages
Annotation
According to statistics compiled by the Great Britain Home Office, 4.9 million notifiable offenses were recorded between July 1990 and June 1991, representing an 18-percent increase over the previous 12 months; the annual average increase over the past 10 years was 6 percent.
Abstract
Of the notifiable offenses, 94 percent were property crimes, and 5 percent were personal offenses. The 5-percent increase in violent crime was small compared to the 10- percent average increase over the previous 3 years. The data revealed that car crimes accounted for more than one-third of the overall increase of 756,000 offenses; car crimes and burglaries accounted for more than half of all recorded crimes. Recorded crime increased in all police force areas. 5 figures, 2 tables, and 6 notes