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Crime Examples
Crime Stats and Examples
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| 96% of prisoners are male, imprisoned for violence against a person, sexual and drug offences |
| Most common crimes are violence and theft |
| Only 4/10 crimes are reported to the police |
| Bike thefts are rarely reported to the police |
| The peak of anti social behaviour is between the ages of 14 and 16 |
| Fraud is the most common crime within the UK with over 3 million incidents in 2023 |
| The TCSEW only surveys people 16+ |
| The peak age of offending for males is 18, the peak age of offending for females is 14 |
| 2/3 prisoners are unemployed when sentenced |
| The general black population of the UK is 3%, the black population of UK prisons is 13% |
| Deprived areas of London have 52% greater crime rates |
| 20% of burgled houses are burgled multiple times |
| 0.4% of houses account for 22% of burglaries |
| Men are more likely than average to be victims of crime, women are less likely |
| 50% of criminals were free school meals |
| In 1957, men were 11x more likely to commit an offence than women, in 2014, that had reduced to men being 3x more likely to commit an offence |
| Black, Pakistani, Bangladeshi individuals are more likely to be stop and searched and arrested, but have a lower conviction rate |
| White criminals are more likely to be convicted of theft |
| Black and Asian criminals are more likely to be convicted of drug offences |
| Black, Indian, Pakistani and Arab individuals are most likely to be victims of crime, with White and Chinese people being least likely to be victims of crime |
| Black individuals have a stop and search rate of 52.6 per 1000, White individuals have a stop and search rate of 7.5 per 1000 |
| There is an estimated 13,000 slaves in the UK |
| The global drug trade is worth 322 billion dollars per year, greater than the GDP of 88% of countries |
| The drug trade motivates half of theft and burglaries |
| China's air pollution causes up to a full million death as year, the government has to shut down industries, traffic, schools, etc occasionally |
| 25 million people die a year from water contamination |
| 1 fifth of rainforest was destroyed from 1960 to 1990 |
| 95% of the animal species on the planet live in the rainforests, which are constantly under threat |
| The Rainbow Warrior, a green peace boat, aiming to be used in anti nuclear protest in 1985 was detonated by the French government, killing a photographer on board |
| Reports indicate that over 150 countries routinely torture civilians |
| It is estimated that the American CIA accidently killed 76 middle eastern children and 29 adults in numerous attempts to kill the leader of Al-Qaeda, often using drones |
| Examples of genocides: Nazi Holocaust, Rwandan and Armenian genocides, currently an estimated 1 million Chinese Muslim Uyghurs are imprisoned indefinitely in concentration camps |
| Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 - Freedom from torture, equal treatment from the law, right to privacy, freedom of expression, freedom of religion |
| Crime and disorder Act 1998: Introduced ASBO's which could limit the movement and curfew of criminals |
| Crime and Disorder Act 1998: Parent can be given a parenting order, forcing them to attend parenting guidance classes |
| Neighbourhood watch, founded in 1982 |
| New York 1992 racked down on graffiti, loitering and littering, resulting in a 25% reduction in serious crime |
| Adults aged 18-24 are one of the demographics with the highest likelihood of being a victim of crime, with a 21.3% likelihood |
| 88% of victims of violence knew the offender |
| Adults aged 75+ are is the demographic with the lowest likelihood of being a victim of crime, with a 11.2% likelihood |
| The Chinese are the ethnic demographic with the lowest likelihood of being a victim of crime, with a 15.9% likelihood |
| Arabs are the ethnic demographic with the highest likelihood of being a victim of crime, with a 38% likelihood |
| There has been a decrease in computer misuse from 2021. In 2021 there were 1.8 million recorded incidents of computer misuse, since then this has decreased to around 700,000 |
| Fraud has the highest number of recorded incidents, with highs of 4.1 million recorded incidents in recent years |
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