• The British Crime Survey (BCS) showed that there were 10.9 million crimes committed against adults living in private households in England and Wales in 2004/05. (Figure 9.1)
• Vehicle-related theft was the most prevalent type of crime in the 2004/05 BCS with 1.9 million offences, 17 per cent of all offences in England and Wales. (Page 130)
• The total value of all card fraud in the UK in 2004 was £504.8 million, an increase of 20 per cent from 2003. (Page 133)
• Benefit fraud was nearly three and a half times as high in 2004 as it was in 1999, and was the second most commonly committed fraud offence in England and Wales after obtaining property by deception. (Table 9.7)
• Men in England and Wales were almost twice as likely as women to be a victim of violent crime (5 per cent compared with 3 per cent) with young men aged 16 to 24 most at risk in 2004/05. (Page 135)
• In 2004, 6 per cent of all 17 year old boys in England and Wales were found guilty of indictable offences, by far the highest rate for any age group, and five times the corresponding rate for girls. (Figure 9.12)
• Between 1993 and 2004 the average prison population in England and Wales rose by 67 per cent, to 75,000 – on 30 September 2005 it was 77,300. (Figure 9.21)
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