Highlights
Crime in England and Wales: year ending September 2019
What's in the bulletin?
- Following a long-term reduction, levels of crime have remained broadly stable in recent years. While in the latest year there has been no change in overall levels of crime, this hides variation seen in individual crime types.
- The latest figures from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) show continued rises in overall fraud, with a 9% increase in the year ending September 2019, driven by a rise in “bank and credit account fraud”.
- All other main crime types measured by the CSEW showed no change, including lower-harm violent offences (for example, violence without injury and assault with minor injury).
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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Datasets related to Crime and justice
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Appendix tables: homicide in England and Wales
Findings from the analyses based on the Homicide Index recorded by the Home Office, including long-term trends, sex of the victim, apparent method of killing and relationship to victim.
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Offences involving the use of weapons: data tables
Data tables relating to offences involving weapons as recorded by police and hospital episode statistics.
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The nature of violent crime: appendix tables
Violent crime numbers, prevalence and location using annual data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, Home Office Data Hub, and police recorded crime. The nature of violent crime in England and Wales article pre-dates the most recent data. Instead it refers to the dataset for year ending March 2018.
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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 years and Home Office police recorded crime, by offence type. Also includes trends in offender relationship of CSEW violence.
Publications related to Crime and justice
Statistical bulletins
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Crime in England and Wales: year ending September 2019
Crime against households and adults, also including data on crime experienced by children, and crimes against businesses and society.
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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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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.
Articles
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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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Offences involving the use of firearms
Analyses of information held by the Home Office on offences involving the use of firearms recorded by police in England and Wales.
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Domestic abuse prevalence and trends, England and Wales
Prevalence, long-term trends and types of domestic abuse experienced by adults, based on findings from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, and police recorded crime.
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Sexual offending: victimisation and the path through the criminal justice system
An overview of sexual offending in England and Wales, using a range of National Statistics and official statistics from across the crime and criminal justice system.
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