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Table 2 Recorded crime and ASB categories

From: Post-pandemic crime trends in England and Wales

Crime Type

Description

All crime

Total for all categories

ASB

Individual, environmental and nuisance anti-social behaviour

Bicycle theft

Taking of a pedal cycle without consent or theft of a pedal cycle

Burglary

Entering a house or a building with the intention of stealing

Criminal damage and arson

Damage to buildings and vehicles and deliberate damage by fire

Drugs

Offences related to supply, possession, and productions of illicit drugs

Other crime

Forgery, perjury, and other miscellaneous crime

Other theft

Theft by an employee, blackmail and making off without payment

Possession of weapons

Possession of firearms or knives

Public order

Offences causing fear, alarm, or distress of public

Robbery

Using force or threat of force to steal

Shoplifting

Theft from shops or stalls

Theft from the person

Theft directly from victim without force of threat of force

Vehicle crime

Theft from or of vehicle or interfering in vehicle to steal it or items

Violence and sexual offences

Offenses against person including assaults, bodily harm, sexual offences

  1. Source: https://www.police.uk/pu/about-police.uk-crime-data/