The line chart given compares the number of cases of three different illegal works in England and Wales over the 26-years period, from 1970 to 2005.
From an overall perspective, car theft was mostly prevalent in the given time, expect the year 1980, when house burgling took the lead. Moreover, cases made by street robbery was the lowest, compared with two kinds of thief in the chart.
As can be seen clearly from the chart given, the number of cases made by car robbers stood at 0.4 million in 1975, then rose up slightly to one million in 1990 before reaching the highest point of 1.6 million incidents at the year 1995. This figure of house burgling witnessed a steadily increase to 900000 in 1980, then declined and stabilized at 0.5 million cases in 2005.
Street robbery was the most uncommon type of thief in England and Wales between 1970 and 2005. Starting with 100000 cases in 1970, the number of incidents recognized mostly shown an upward trend and stopped at 0,4 million in the final year. This figure is lower than car theft and house burgling cases.