Crime in England and Wales: year ending March 2025

Product Description

Crime against households and people aged 16 years and over, using data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and police recorded crime (which includes crimes against businesses, society and children).

The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) is an interviewer-administered face-to-face survey asking people (aged 16 years and over) resident in households about their experiences of crime in the past year. It provides a reliable measure of crime trends for the population and offence types it covers. This is because it is unaffected by police reporting or recording changes.

The survey excludes crimes against commercial or public sector bodies, tourists, or those living in communal establishments like care homes, student halls of residence and prisons. The survey does not cover crimes where there is not a specific victim, such as drug possession, and other crimes against the state.

The CSEW captures a broad range of victim-based crimes with the interviewer-administered questions. It gives headline estimates of CSEW crime, which includes theft, robbery, criminal damage, fraud, computer misuse, and violence with or without injury. Estimates are reported as both incidents (the estimated number of crimes) and prevalence (the estimated proportion of the population that were victims).