The given line graph compares the proportion of 3 different criminal types, including car theft, house burglary and street robbery, in England and Wales between 1970 and 2000.
Overall, it is evident that the percentages of car stealing and house burglary criminals both experienced an overall upward trend over the period. In addition, despite having a significant reduction, the figure for car theft remained the highest category.
Looking more closely at the graph, in 1970, the rate of car stealing crime was 0.4%. After that, this figure increased considerably, peaking at 1.4% in 1985 before dropping dramatically to 0.8% at the end of the period. Additionally, this percentage was the highest figure compared to other crimes during all the mentioned years.
Regarding house robber rate, starting at about 0.3% in the first year, this figure grew moderately to 0.6% in 1990. Subsequently, the proportion of this crime declined slightly to 0.4% by 2000. Moreover, the percentage of robbery in street fluctuated throughout the period, remaining consistently at approximately 0.1%.