The line graph depicts a study that was conducted on the proportion of three different crimes in England and Wales from 1970 to 2005.
Generally speaking, it is apparent that car theft was significantly higher in comparison with the other two. Meanwhile, street robbery was the lowest. At the beginning, car theft accounted for 0.4 million incidents and increased steadily for the following 20 years until it reached 1 million victims. In 1990, car thefts witnessed a sharp growth and reached its peak, approximately 1.6 million incidents. However, it started to plummet gradually and ended up with 1 million car thefts. In comparison, street robbery was almost zero, and this number remained stable until 1995 when it started to rise marginally to 0.2 million victims. Street robbery had 0.2 million victims at the end of the period.
House burglary stood at 0.2 million in 1970. Furthermore, over the next 10 years, it almost tripled, and following 5 years, it saw stagnation. In 1990, house burglary slightly grew, but decreased in 2000, which was maintained, and in 2005, house burglary was estimated to be around 0.4 million incidents.