Highlights
Crime in England and Wales: year ending June 2019
What's in the bulletin?
- Overall levels of crime showed falls in recent decades, but have remained broadly stable in recent years. While in the last year there has been no change in overall levels of crime, this hides variation seen in individual crime types.
- The latest figures show a mixed picture, with continued rises in some types of theft, “bank and credit account fraud” and falls in “computer viruses”.
- There were also increases in some of the less frequently occurring but higher-harm types of violence, including offences involving knives or sharp instruments.
Child abuse in England and Wales: January 2020
What's in the bulletin?
- The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) estimated that one in five adults aged 18 to 74 years experienced at least one form of child abuse, whether emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, or witnessing domestic violence or abuse, before the age of 16 years (8.5 million people).
- Many cases of child abuse remain hidden; around one in seven adults who called the National Association for People Abused in Childhood’s (NAPAC’s) helpline had not told anyone about their abuse before.
- At 31 March 2019, 52,260 children in England were the subject of a child protection plan (CPP) and 2,820 children in Wales were on the child protection register (CPR) because of experience or risk of abuse or neglect; neglect was the most common category of abuse in England and emotional abuse was the most common in Wales
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Crime in England and Wales: Other related tables
Data tables and figures that are no longer contained within the publication continue to be made available here for reference and consistency. The data contained in these tables are from four sources: Crime Survey for England and Wales, Home Office police recorded crime, the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau and the Ministry of Justice Criminal Justice Statistics.
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Crime in England and Wales: Appendix tables
Trends in Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) crime experienced by adults and children aged 10 to 15 yearsand Home Office police recorded crime, by offence type. Also includes trends in offender relationship of CSEW violence.
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Crime in England and Wales: Police Force Area data tables
Data from Home Office police recorded crime. Shows the number of police recorded crimes, percentage change from previous year and rate per 1,000 population by offence group and Police Force Area.
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Crime in England and Wales: Quarterly data tables
Data from Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and Home Office police recorded crime broken down into quarterly time periods.
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Recorded crime data by Community Safety Partnership area
Recorded crime figures for community safety partnerships, which equates in the majority of instances to local authorities. Contains the number of offences for the last 2 years, percentage change between these two time periods and rates per 1,000 population for the last year.
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Crime Severity Score (Experimental Statistics)
Crime Severity Score (CSS) data for police force areas and community safety partnerships, which equate in the majority of instances to local authorities. Includes a data tool to enable production of summary charts on trends and comparisons between areas.
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Crime in England and Wales: year ending June 2019
Crime against households and adults, also including data on crime experienced by children, and crimes against businesses and society.
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Domestic abuse in England and Wales overview: November 2019
Figures on domestic abuse from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, police recorded crime and a number of different organisations.
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Child abuse in England and Wales: January 2020
Statistics and research on child abuse in England and Wales, bringing together a range of different data sources from across government and the voluntary sector.
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Focus on property crime: year ending March 2016
An overview of property crime, based on analyses from the year ending March 2016 Crime Survey for England and Wales and crimes recorded by police.
Articles
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Child emotional abuse in England and Wales
Child emotional abuse in England and Wales, bringing together a range of different data sources from across government and the voluntary sector.
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Child sexual abuse in England and Wales
Child sexual abuse in England and Wales, bringing together a range of different data sources from across government and the voluntary sector
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Child neglect in England and Wales
Child neglect in England and Wales, bringing together different data sources from across government and the voluntary sector.
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Child physical abuse in England and Wales
Child physical abuse in England and Wales, bringing together a range of different data sources from across government and the voluntary sector.
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Child abuse extent and nature, England and Wales
Child abuse in England and Wales, bringing together a range of different data sources from across government and the voluntary sector.
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Homicide in England and Wales
Analyses of information held within the Home Office Homicide Index, which contains detailed record-level information about each homicide recorded by police in England and Wales.
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