The line graph illustrates the difference between crime rates of three types of crime (car theft, house burglary, street robbery) in England and Wales throughout a 35-year period.
Overall, car theft was the most common offence over the period, while street robbery remained the least frequent. Both car theft and house burglary rose in the first decades and then declined, while street robbery was the only rate that witnessed unsignificant rise at the end of the period.
Car theft climbed steadily from 0.4 to 1 million in 1990 before soaring to a peak of approximately 1.6 million in 1995. After that, it fell sharply to its 1990 level. House burglary followed a similar pattern but there was no sharp rise. It reached 0.7 million between 1990 and 1995, and then dropped gradually to 0.5 million in 2005. By contrast, street robbery was considerably lower (around 0,05) but by the end of 2005 had shown an upward trend. Starting from 1990 it began to rise reaching 0.2 million in 2000 where it stayed until 2005.