Prisoners reconvicted within two years of discharge in 1999: by original offence, E&W
• Humberside had the highest rate of recorded crime of all the police force areas in England and Wales in 2003/04, at 163 per 1,000 population, while Dyfed Powys, at 63 per 1,000, had the lowest. (Map 9.4)
• Crimes involving firearms in England and Wales more than doubled between 1997/98 and 2002/03, to over 10,000. (Table 9.6)
• In 2003/04, women were nearly three times as likely as men in England and Wales to be very worried about physical attack (17 per cent compared with 6 per cent), yet men were more likely than women to be a victim of violent crime (5 per cent compared with 3 per cent). (Table 9.9 & 9.10)
• Over seven in ten of both men and women previously convicted for theft and handling stolen goods in England and Wales were reconvicted within two years of their discharge from prison in 1999. (Figure 9.13)
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