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Police recorded crime figures by Police Force Area and Community Safety Partnership areas (which equate in the majority of instances, to local authorities).
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Domestic abuse numbers, prevalence, types and victim characteristics, based upon findings from the Crime Survey for England and Wales and police recorded crime.
With approximately 122.1 crimes per 1,000 population, Cleveland, in North East England, had the highest crime rate of all the police force areas in England and Wales in 2024/25. High crime rates are evident in other areas of northern England, such as West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester at 114.5 and 108.2, respectively. In the UK capital, London, the crime rate was 105.5 per 1,000 people. The lowest crime rate in England was in the relatively rural areas of Wiltshire in South West England, as well as North Yorkshire. Overall crime in England and Wales The number of crimes in England and Wales reached approximately 6.74 million in 2022/23, falling slightly to 6.66 million in 2023/24, and 6.59 million in 2024/25. Overall crime has been rising steadily across England and Wales for almost a decade, even when adjusted for population rises. In 2022/23, for example, the crime rate in England and Wales was 93.6, the highest since 2006/07. When compared with the rest of the United Kingdom, England and Wales is something of an outlier, as crime rates for Scotland and Northern Ireland have not followed the same trajectory of rising crime. Additionally, there has been a sharp increase in violent crimes and sexual offences since the mid-2010s in England and Wales. While theft offences have generally been falling, the number of shoplifting offences reached a peak of 530,640 in 2024/25. Troubled justice system under pressure Alongside rising crime figures, many indicators also signal that the justice system is getting pushed to breaking point. The percentage of crimes that are solved in England and Wales was just 5.7 percent in 2023, with sexual offences having a clearance rate of just 3.6 percent. Crimes are also taking far longer than usual to pass through the justice system. In 2022, it took an average of 407 days for a crown court case to reach a conclusion from the time of the offence, compared with 233 days in 2018. This is most likely related to the large backlog of cases in crown courts, which reached over 67,750 in 2023. Furthermore, prisons in England and Wales are dangerously overcrowded, with the government even releasing some prisoners early to address the issue.
This is an Official Statistics bulletin produced by statisticians in the Ministry of Justice, Home Office and the Office for National Statistics. It brings together, for the first time, a range of official statistics from across the crime and criminal justice system, providing an overview of sexual offending in England and Wales. The report is structured to highlight: the victim experience; the police role in recording and detecting the crimes; how the various criminal justice agencies deal with an offender once identified; and the criminal histories of sex offenders.
Providing such an overview presents a number of challenges, not least that the available information comes from different sources that do not necessarily cover the same period, the same people (victims or offenders) or the same offences. This is explained further in the report.
Based on aggregated data from the ‘Crime Survey for England and Wales’ in 2009/10, 2010/11 and 2011/12, on average, 2.5 per cent of females and 0.4 per cent of males said that they had been a victim of a sexual offence (including attempts) in the previous 12 months. This represents around 473,000 adults being victims of sexual offences (around 404,000 females and 72,000 males) on average per year. These experiences span the full spectrum of sexual offences, ranging from the most serious offences of rape and sexual assault, to other sexual offences like indecent exposure and unwanted touching. The vast majority of incidents reported by respondents to the survey fell into the other sexual offences category.
It is estimated that 0.5 per cent of females report being a victim of the most serious offences of rape or sexual assault by penetration in the previous 12 months, equivalent to around 85,000 victims on average per year. Among males, less than 0.1 per cent (around 12,000) report being a victim of the same types of offences in the previous 12 months.
Around one in twenty females (aged 16 to 59) reported being a victim of a most serious sexual offence since the age of 16. Extending this to include other sexual offences such as sexual threats, unwanted touching or indecent exposure, this increased to one in five females reporting being a victim since the age of 16.
Around 90 per cent of victims of the most serious sexual offences in the previous year knew the perpetrator, compared with less than half for other sexual offences.
Females who had reported being victims of the most serious sexual offences in the last year were asked, regarding the most recent incident, whether or not they had reported the incident to the police. Only 15 per cent of victims of such offences said that they had done so. Frequently cited reasons for not reporting the crime were that it was ‘embarrassing’, they ‘didn’t think the police could do much to help’, that the incident was ‘too trivial or not worth reporting’, or that they saw it as a ‘private/family matter and not police business’
In 2011/12, the police recorded a total of 53,700 sexual offences across England and Wales. The most serious sexual offences of ‘rape’ (16,000 offences) and ‘sexual assault’ (22,100 offences) accounted for 71 per cent of sexual offences recorded by the police. This differs markedly from victims responding to the CSEW in 2011/12, the majority of whom were reporting being victims of other sexual offences outside the most serious category.
This reflects the fact that victims are more likely to report the most serious sexual offences to the police and, as such, the police and broader criminal justice system (CJS) tend to deal largely with the most serious end of the spectrum of sexual offending. The majority of the other sexual crimes recorded by the police related to ‘exposure or voyeurism’ (7,000) and ‘sexual activity with minors’ (5,800).
Trends in recorded crime statistics can be influenced by whether victims feel able to and decide to report such offences to the police, and by changes in police recording practices. For example, while there was a 17 per cent decrease in recorded sexual offences between 2005/06 and 2008/09, there was a seven per cent increase between 2008/09 and 2010/11. The latter increase may in part be due to greater encouragement by the police to victims to come forward and improvements in police recording, rather than an increase in the level of victimisation.
After the initial recording of a crime, the police may later decide that no crime took place as more details about the case emerge. In 2011/12, there were 4,155 offences initially recorded as sexual offences that the police later decided were not crimes. There are strict guidelines that set out circumstances under which a crime report may be ‘no crimed’. The ‘no-crime’ rate for sexual offences (7.2 per cent) compare
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Nature of sexual assault by rape or penetration experienced by adults since the age of 16 years, including breakdowns by age, sex, victim-perpetrator relationship, location and other factors. Analyses from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW).
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Sexual offence numbers, prevalence and victim characteristics, including breakdowns by type of incident, sex, victim-perpetrator relationship and location based upon findings from the Crime Survey for England and Wales and police recorded crime.
This dataset shows the levels of various crimes throughout the Boroughs of London, UK. Data is available monthly, with September being the most recently available month.
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) asks a sole adult, in a random sample of households, about their, or their household's, experience of crime victimisation in the previous 12 months. These are recorded in the victim form data file (VF). A wide range of questions are then asked covering demographics and crime-related subjects such as attitudes to the police and the criminal justice system (CJS) these variables are contained within the non-victim form (NVF) data file. In 2009, the survey was extended to children aged 10-15 years old; one resident of that age range is also selected from the household and asked about their experience of crime, and other related topics. The first set of children's data covered January-December 2009 and is held separately under SN 6601. From 2009-2010, the children's data cover the same period as the adult data and are included with the main study.The CSEW was formerly known as the British Crime Survey (BCS), and has been in existence since 1981. The 1982 and 1988 BCS waves were also conducted in Scotland (data held separately under SNs 4368 and 4599). Since 1993, separate Scottish Crime and Justice Surveys have been conducted. Up to 2001, the BCS was conducted biennially. From April 2001, the Office for National Statistics took over the survey and it became the CSEW. Interviewing was then carried out continually and reported on in financial year cycles. The crime reference period was altered to accommodate this. Further information may be found on the ONS Crime Survey for England and Wales web page and for the previous BCS, from the GOV.UK BCS Methodology web page. Secure Access dataIn addition to the main survey, a series of questions covering drinking behaviour, drug use, self-offending, gangs and personal security, and intimate personal violence (IPV) (including stalking and sexual victimisation) are asked of adults via a laptop-based self-completion module (questions may vary over the years). Children aged 10-15 years also complete a separate self-completion questionnaire. The questionnaires are included in the main documentation, but the data are only available under Secure Access conditions (see SN 7280), not with the main study. In addition, from 2011 onwards, lower-level geographic variables are also available under Secure Access conditions (see SN 7311).New methodology for capping the number of incidents from 2017-18The CSEW datasets available from 2017-18 onwards are based on a new methodology of capping the number of incidents at the 98th percentile. Incidence variables names have remained consistent with previously supplied data but due to the fact they are based on the new 98th percentile cap, and old datasets are not, comparability has been lost with years prior to 2012-2013. More information can be found in the 2017-18 User Guide (see SN 8464) and the article ‘Improving victimisation estimates derived from the Crime Survey for England and Wales’. The aims of the 1988 British Crime Survey, the third in the series, were to provide a fuller indication of the extent of certain types of crime in England and Wales (including incidents which are neither reported to nor recorded by the police) and to provide information on other aspects of crime and the criminal justice system. An additional sample of ethnic minority respondents was included in the survey. The purpose of this was to estimate victimisation risks for minority groups, to investigate racially motivated crimes against minorities and to compare attitudes to and contact with the police among ethnic minority and other respondents. The sample was limited to 'Black' and 'Asian' respondents, most 'Blacks' being Afro-Caribbeans. For the May 2000 edition of the 1988 dataset, some changes were made to the data and documentation, including the addition of a Training Guide. Main Topics: The key topics covered in this survey were: the extent of crime; fear of crime; attitudes to the police; crime in the workplace; crime prevention; Neighbourhood Watch schemes; ethnic minority issues and risks. 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FORECASTING FRAUD FRIENDS FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT FURTHER EDUCATION GARAGES GENDER HEADS OF HOUSEHOLD HOLIDAYS HOME BUYING HOME OWNERSHIP HOUSEHOLD HEAD S OC... HOUSEHOLDS HOUSING HOUSING CONDITIONS HOUSING TENURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR HUMAN SETTLEMENT INCOME INDUSTRIES INFORMATION INFORMATION MATERIALS INFORMATION SOURCES INJURIES INSURANCE INSURANCE CLAIMS INTERPERSONAL CONFLICT INTERPERSONAL RELAT... INTRUDER ALARM SYSTEMS JOB DESCRIPTION JOB REQUIREMENTS JUDGMENTS LAW JUVENILE DELINQUENCY LANDLORDS LAW ENFORCEMENT LEISURE TIME ACTIVI... LOCATION LOCKS MARITAL STATUS MASS MEDIA COVERAGE MASS MEDIA USE MEDICAL CARE MEETINGS MEMBERSHIP MONEY MOTOR VEHICLES NEIGHBOURHOODS OCCUPATIONS OFFENCES ORGANIZATIONS PART TIME EMPLOYMENT PARTICIPATION PATIENTS PERFORMING ARTS PERSONAL FASHION GOODS POLICE COMMUNITY RE... POLICE CORRUPTION POLICE SERVICES POLICING PRISON SENTENCES PRISON SYSTEM PROBATION PROFESSIONAL PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS PUBLIC INFORMATION PUNISHMENT RACIAL DISCRIMINATION REFUSE RELIGIOUS ATTENDANCE RENTED ACCOMMODATION RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY RETIREMENT ROBBERY SAFETY EQUIPMENT SATISFACTION SELF EMPLOYED SEXUAL ASSAULT SEXUAL OFFENCES SICK LEAVE SOCIAL ACTIVITIES L... SOCIAL CLASS SOCIAL HOUSING SOCIAL SUPPORT SOCIAL WELFARE ORGA... SPORT STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS... STUDENTS SUPERVISORS Social behaviour an... THEFT THEFT PROTECTION TIED HOUSING TIME TRAFFIC OFFENCES TRAVEL TRAVELLING PEOPLE TRESPASS UNEMPLOYED VAGRANTS VOLUNTARY WELFARE O... VOLUNTARY WORK WITNESSES WORKERS WORKING CONDITIONS WORKPLACE YOUTH
This dataset was retrieved from the U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Criminal Justice Information Services Division website on February 29, 2008. "This table provides the estimated number of offenses and the actual number of offenses reported in the Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA), cities outside metropolitan areas, and nonmetropolitan counties, and the rate (per 100,000 inhabitants) for each grouping, and the estimated population for each state" however to simplify the dataset, I only included the state total and the rate for each state. Data for Puerto Rico was not included. "The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program". Please see the Data Declaration for further information on the data set. Values of -1 represent no value.
This dataset was retrieved from the U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Criminal Justice Information Services Division website on February 29, 2008. "This table provides arrest data for 29 separate UCR offenses for each state for 2006". The table provides data for total arrests by class of crime. "The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program". Estimated population was added for each state for 2006 that appeared on Table 5 of the data from 2006. Please see the Data Declaration for further information on the data set. Values of -1 represent no value.
This dataset provides highly detailed (Block Level) views of various demographics for Manhattan, New York city. this dataset includes information on age, race, sex, income, housing, and various other attributes. This data comes from the 2000 Us Census and was joined to the Census Tiger line files to create the output. enjoy!
There has been little research on United States homicide rates from a long-term perspective, primarily because there has been no consistent data series on a particular place preceding the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), which began its first full year in 1931. To fill this research gap, this project created a data series on homicides per capita for New York City that spans two centuries. The goal was to create a site-specific, individual-based data series that could be used to examine major social shifts related to homicide, such as mass immigration, urban growth, war, demographic changes, and changes in laws. Data were also gathered on various other sites, particularly in England, to allow for comparisons on important issues, such as the post-World War II wave of violence. The basic approach to the data collection was to obtain the best possible estimate of annual counts and the most complete information on individual homicides. The annual count data (Parts 1 and 3) were derived from multiple sources, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports and Supplementary Homicide Reports, as well as other official counts from the New York City Police Department and the City Inspector in the early 19th century. The data include a combined count of murder and manslaughter because charge bargaining often blurs this legal distinction. The individual-level data (Part 2) were drawn from coroners' indictments held by the New York City Municipal Archives, and from daily newspapers. Duplication was avoided by keeping a record for each victim. The estimation technique known as "capture-recapture" was used to estimate homicides not listed in either source. Part 1 variables include counts of New York City homicides, arrests, and convictions, as well as the homicide rate, race or ethnicity and gender of victims, type of weapon used, and source of data. Part 2 includes the date of the murder, the age, sex, and race of the offender and victim, and whether the case led to an arrest, trial, conviction, execution, or pardon. Part 3 contains annual homicide counts and rates for various comparison sites including Liverpool, London, Kent, Canada, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Seattle, and San Francisco.
This dataset has been migrated from our Geocommons platform, and lacks a description from the original posting user. This is not a Fortiusone provided dataset. Please keep this in mind, and make of the dataset what you will. Thank you for visiting Finder!
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. This research focused on crime and its relation to risk of victimisation and the suggestion that high-risk groups, in particular, young men, report lower fear than low-risk groups, in particular, older women. The notion of anxiety as a mediating influence in the relationship between risk of victimisation and fear of crime was examined. Through a set of face-to-face interviews, the research found that the effect of risk figured prominently in interviewee's accounts of their fear of crime and their previous victimisation. They not only positioned themselves as more or less at risk but more actively were recurrently engaged in more or less ‘risky’ practices. The research suggests that the relations between risk and fear of crime cannot be understood without theorising the multiple meanings attaching to a person’s identity which become invested with anxiety. The data consists of interview transcripts with men and women living on estates where the incidence of crime was either high or low. The interviews aimed to understand the differences in fear of crime among different social groups, integrating demographic characteristics, analyses of gender, ethnicity and age. Main Topics: Anxiety; childhood; community life; crime; crime victims; fear of crime; gender; psychoanalysis; risk; violence. Purposive selection/case studies Face-to-face interview
This dataset displays the population statistics by county and age for England and Wales. This data is derived from statistics from the 2001 UK Census. Due to variation in the data and the shapefile data is not available for Merseyside, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, and Tyne and Wear.
The LDOES project investigated the dynamics of changing neighbourhood populations over two decades in Scotland. The project has substantive links with two other ESRC projects: AQMeN II Urban Segmentation (PI: Susan McVie, Edinburgh) and Dynamics of Ethnic Identity & Inequality (PI: James Nazroo, Manchester). The project identified a lack of available information on ethnic migration dynamics in inter-census years. The Registers of Scotland (RoS) property transactions data was used to address this deficit. The RoS data captures each and every property transaction in Scotland between 1990 and 2014 as well as the names of buyers and sellers. Additional work was done by the AQMeN team to impute the ethnicity and religion of buyers using the name-classification software Onomap. This deposit contains tables for annual ethnic and religious inflows into an area based on the names of property buyers. The aggregation is at the level of 2001 Scottish Datazones (each unit covers between 500 – 1000 residents). The Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN) Phase II is a Research Centre that aims to develop a dynamic and pioneering set of projects to improve our understanding of current social issues in the UK and provide policy makers and practitioners with the evidence to build a better future. Three principal cross-cutting research strands will exploit existing high-quality data resources: (1) Education and Social Stratification will focus on social class differences in entry to, progression in and attainment at tertiary education and how they affect individuals' labour market outcomes and their civic participation; (2) Crime and Victimisation will explore the dramatic change in crime rates in Scotland and other jurisdictions and examines the determinants and impact of criminal careers amongst populations of offenders; and (3) Urban Segmentation and Inequality which will create innovative new measures of social segmentation and combine these with cutting-edge longitudinal and sorting-model techniques to explore the causes of neighbourhood segmentation, household location choice and neighbourhood inequalities. Five additional projects will focus on the referendum on Scottish independence, location dynamics and ethnicity and exploiting existing datasets. The research will fed into training activities and knowledge exchange events aimed at boosting capacity in quantitative methods amongst the UK social science community. The original data was collected by Registers of Scotland. Registers of Scotland is the non-ministerial government department responsible for compiling and maintaining 18 public registers. These relate to land, property, and other legal documents. The data is a complete census of housing transactions in Scotland from 1990 - 2014. Additional work was done by the AQMeN II team to impute the ethnicity and religion of buyers based on name using onomap -- a commercial software for name based imputation (http://www.onomap.org/).
The 2007 World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey measures entrepreneurial activity in 84 developing and industrial countries over the period 2003-2005. The database includes cross-country, time-series data on the number of total and newly registered businesses, collected directly from Registrar of Companies around the world. In its second year, this survey incorporates improvements in methodology, and expanded participation from countries covered, allowing for greater cross-border compatibility of data compared with the 2006 survey. This joint effort by the IFC SME Department and the World Bank Developing Research Group is the most comprehensive dataset on cross-country firm entry data available today. This database The World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Dataaset presents data collected primarily from country business registries using the first annual World Bank Group Questionnaire on Entrepreneurship (alternative sources were tax authorities, finance ministries, and national statistics offices). For more information on the author of the database, Leora Klapper, visit: http://go.worldbank.org/DK5AHCQSO0. This data was access at the preceeding link, on October 11, 2007. Please visit the link for more information in regards to this dataset.
This dataset is from the website USA Election Polls. The data provide information from exit polls from the Democratic primaries in 2008 by state for race/ethnicity and gender. All values of -1 represent no available data.
This dataset gives the state shares of Internet perpetrators in the U.S. The data was extracted from the 2007 Internet Crime Report prepared by the National White Collar Crime Center, the Bureau of Justice Assistance and FBI. Further details are provide in the report (see URL link below)
This dataset shows the origin and race of residents. The data is part of the Census Transportation Planning Package (CTPP), and is the result of a cooperative effort between various groups including the State Departments of Transportation, U.S. Census Bureau, and the Federal Highway Administration. The data is a special tabulation of responses from households completing the decennial census long form. The data was collected in 2000 and is shown at tract level. This data can be found at http://www.transtats.bts.gov/Fields.asp?Table_ID=1341.
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Police recorded crime figures by Police Force Area and Community Safety Partnership areas (which equate in the majority of instances, to local authorities).