Crime & justice
Young people most likely to be a victim of personal crime
Young people aged 10 to 25 who were victims of personal crime: 2006, England and Wales
• Theft and handling stolen goods was the crime most commonly recorded by police in England and Wales (36 per cent) and Scotland (33 per cent) in 2007/08. In Northern Ireland it was criminal damage (28 per cent). (Table 9.1)
• Between 2006/07 and 2007/08 there was a 10 per cent decrease in the incidence of crime measured by the British Crime Survey (BCS) in England and Wales, from 11.3 million to 10.1 million crimes. (Figure 9.2) Latest information on crime figures
• Violent crime, comprising assault with or without injury, wounding and robbery, accounted for one-fifth (nearly 2.2 million incidents) of all BCS crime in England and Wales in 2007/08. (Figure 9.3)
• In 2006, just over one-quarter (26 per cent) of ten to 25-year-olds in England and Wales were victims of personal crime in the last 12 months, including robbery, personal theft and assault (either with or without injury). (Table 9.4)
• There were 17,300 crimes in which a firearm was used reported to the police in England and Wales in 2007/08, a 6 per cent decrease from 2006/07. (Figure 9.7)
• Of offenders aged 18 and over leaving prison or starting a community sentence in England and Wales in the first quarter of 2006, 39 per cent reoffended within 12 months, the lowest reoffending rate since the 2000 cohort. (Page 136)
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