Band 6+: The chart below shows three different types of crime in England and Wales from 1970 to 2005. Summarize the information be selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph illustrates 3 different types of crime: car theft, house burgling and street robbery in European countries between 1970 and 2005.

Overall, what stands out from the graph is that while car theft remained the most common type of crime throughout the period, the rate of house burglary was the second highest figure in the graph.Although the trend for street robbery remained stable from 1970 to 1995, it followed an upward trajectory after 1995.

The crimes that increased were car theft and street robbery. However, car theft exhibited a noticeable rise until about 1990 (from 0.4million to 1 million) before growing suddenly to 1.6 million in 1995, this trend sharply decreased by 0.6 million after 1995. The figure for street robbery remained stable at around 0.1million until 1995 but it increased slightly to 0.2million in 2000 followed by a period of stability.

Even though the trend for house burglary started at 0.2million and increased steadily to 0.6million in 1980, it remained constant between 1980 and 1985. The rate of home burglary after a marginal rise by approximately 0.1million in 1990, it followed a stable trend , from 1995 this trend dramatically declined to about 0.5million.