People, population and community
Today the Office for National Statistics’ Centre for Crime and Justice has published figures for crime in England and Wales for the twelve months ending June 2018. As the overall crime figure covers a broad range of crime types and from two different sources, we recommend focusing on individual crime types using the most appropriate source.
Commenting on today’s figures, Joe Traynor from the ONS Centre for Crime and Justice said:
“Over recent decades, we’ve seen continued falls in overall levels of crime but in the last year the trend has been more stable. The latest figures show no change in the total level of crime but variation by crime types. We saw rises in some types of theft and in some lower-volume but higher-harm types of violence, balanced by a fall in the high-volume offence of computer misuse. There was no change in other high-volume offences such as overall violence, criminal damage and fraud. To put today’s crime survey figures into context, only 2 out of 10 adults experienced crime in the latest year.”
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