The graphic shows crime figures for last year in the United Kingdom. The line graph shows the connection between criminal activity and age and the pie chart a breakdown of different crime types.
It is evident when looking at the line graph that teenagers and those in their early twenties were responsible for a disproportionate high level of crime. The involvement in crime peaked at twenty years old with nearly a million crimes being commited. This then fell dramatically and levelled off at age 28 and continued to decreased with age.
The pie chart shows that serious crimes were alarmingly high with nearly half of crimes identified being violent in nature. Property and drug crime had similar levels at just under a quarter and crimes relate to social disorder were relatively low at 9 percent.
Overall, we can see that the vast majority of crime – over 75% – were committed by older teens and people in their early twenties and that of the crimes identified in the graphic most were related to violence.
