The line graph provides information about the numbers of 3 different types of crimes such as car theft, house burgling and street robbery (in millions), which were happened in England and Wales between 1970 and 2005.
Overall, it is clear the most noticeable trend that car theft was a leader and this figure showed significant changes, whereas house burgling’s way was fluctuated. However, the remaining crime did not represent any vivid distinctions.
Focusing on the biggest numbers first, the most striking feature that car theft’s number accounted for 0,4 million in 1970 and it was the highest rate among all three features. Following this, this number witnessed a rapid increase to 1 million within 15 years. A further point is that such a pattern grew considerably by 0,6 million, reaching its peak in 1995. Despite the remarkable growth, this number saw a sharp drop from 1,6 to 1 million incidents at the end of the period.
Turning to the remaining crimes, at a glance, it can be seen that their rates were relatively lower than the car theft. In 1970, house burgling demonstrated 0,2 million, while street robbery was approximately 0,1 million apart. When examining this two figures, the former saw a substantial rise to 0,6 million cases, whereas the latter remained unchanged for a long time (25 years). Subsequently, the former was exposed to wild fluctuations, achieving roughly 0,5 million incidents at the end of the period. Thereby, the latter’s number rose steadily to 0,2 and remained relatively stable for 5 years.