Trends in Crime and Deviance: UK Crime Statistics 2020

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What are crime statistics?

  • Crime Survey of England and Wales is a victim-report survey that estimates the amount of crime in the UK

  • Police figures for crime recorded are also used to measure crime

  • Not all crime is recorded or reported - this is the 'dark figure of crime'

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What is comparisons of statistics?

  • Findings from the Telephone-operated Crime Survey for England and Wales (TCSEW) estimated that there were approximately 11.5 million offences

  • Total police-recorded crime decreased by 4% in England and Wales to approximately 5.8 million offences

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What are the homicide statistics?

  • Police recorded figures - homicide not measured by CSEW

  • Recent increases due to domestic terrorism and human trafficking incidents from 578 per year in 2016 to 717 in 2017 and 725 in 2020 - a reduction from a high of 1074 in March 2003

  • Include figures for Hillsborough where verdicts were trafficking cost, in 2017 and Essex human trafficking case in 2019

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What are the statistics of violent offences?

  • Crime Survey for England and Wales (TSEW) showed that there were 1.4 million violent offences in the last 12 months

  • Police recorded crime showed a 3% increase in violence against the person offences from 1,697,718 offences to 1,750,750 offences in the year ending June 2020.

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What are the statistics for sexual offences and domestic violence?

  • Estimates from the CSEW for the year ending March 2020 showed that 2.2% of adults had experienced sexual assault (including attempted offences) in the latest year

  • Significantly lower prevalence of domestic violence for the year ending March 2020 (6.1%), compared with the year ending March 2005 (8.9%).

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What are the statistics of fruad?

  • Estimates from the Telephone-operated Crime Survey for England and Wales (TCSEW) showed that there were 4.3 million fraud offences in the year ending June 2020

  • 4% increase in the total number of fraud offences referred to the NFIB in the year ending June 2020 (733,967 offences) compared with the previous year (703,097 offences)

  • Within plastic card frauds, there was a 58% increase in "remote banking" fraud (to 55,058 incidents).