THE UK BY NUMBERS


CRIME THE UK BY NUMBERS


Here we present an overview of the key issues in Britain today. This issue our focus is on crime. All statistics are from the Ministry of Justice unless otherwise stated


Types of crime 212,784 15%


There were 212,784 drug seizures by the police and the UK Border Agency (UKBA) in England and Wales in 2010/11, a five per cent decrease on 2009/10. Seizures of Class A drugs decreased by 15 per cent Source: Home Office


TRENDS IN RECORDED CRIME IN URBAN AND RURAL POLICE FORCE AREAS 2009/10 (RATE PER THOUSAND) Source: British Crime Survey


Percentage of people between the ages of 10 and 52 in England and Wales in 2006 estimated to have had at least one conviction for a standard list one offence


“Obviously crime pays, or there’d be no crime.” G. Gordon Liddy


The prison population at 30 September 2011 was 87,501, an increase of 2,072 (almost two per cent) compared to 30 September 2010 when the total population was 85,429


Sentences and prison 87,501


PRISON POPULATION PROJECTIONS JUNE 2011-2017 Prison population projections June 2011-2017 (source: Ministry of Justice) Lower


Medium


20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000 100,000


0 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Higher


offences 2%


Drug


offences 5%


Criminal damage 18%


Fraud and forgery 4%


Other theft offences 24%


Trends in recorded crime in urban and rural police force areas 2009/10 (rate p Other


Violence against the person 20%


Sexual offences 1%


Robbery 2%


Burglary 13%


Offences against vehicles 11%


OFFENDERS SENTENCED BY PRINCIPAL SENTENCE (12 MONTHS ENDING MARCH 2010)


-24%


Since 2000 the number of re-


convictions committed per hundred offenders (frequency rate) has fallen from 185 to 140.5 – a 24 per cent fall. Since 2008, the frequency rate has fallen 9.6 per cent


Offenders sentenced by principal sentence, 12 months ending March 2010 to 12 months


Other disposals (all offenders) 9.7%


Immediate custody 7.6%


Suspended sentence 3.6%


Fines


(all offenders) 65.4%


Community sentence 13.9%


“The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.” Arthur Conan Doyle


18 SOCIETY NOW AUTUMN 2011


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