The line chart given compares the number of cases of three different illegal acts in England and Wales over the 26-year period, from 1970 to 2005.
From an overall perspective, car theft was mostly prevalent in the given time, except for the year 1980, when house burglary took the lead. Moreover, cases made by street robbery were the lowest, compared with the other two types of theft in the chart.
As can be seen clearly from the chart given, the number of cases made by car theft stood at 0.4 million in 1975, then rose slightly to one million in 1990 before reaching the highest point of 1.6 million incidents in the year 1995. This figure for house burglary witnessed a steady increase to 900,000 in 1980, then declined and stabilized at 0.5 million cases in 2005.
Street robbery was the most uncommon type of theft in England and Wales between 1970 and 2005. Starting with 100,000 cases in 1970, the number of incidents recognized mostly showed an upward trend and stopped at 0.4 million in the final year. This figure is lower than car theft and house burgling cases.