The line graph illustrates the proportion of illegal activities including car theft, house burglary, street robbery in England and Wales during the period from 1970 to 2000.
Overall, There was a general increase in the percentage of car theft and house burglary. While street robbery saw significant stability. It is also clear that the percentage of car theft consistently had by far the highest figure
The percentage of the offense in car theft started at exactly 0.4%, after which it experienced a dramatic rise to reach a peak of 1.4% in 1985. Similar changes could be seen in house burglary and street robbery, but to a lesser extent, which increased from approximately 0.3% to about 0.5% and from 0.1% in 1970 to over 0.1% in 1985 respectively.
From 1985 to 2000, the number of car theft saw a remarkable decrease, hitting a low of 0.8% in the final year of the period examined. The figures for house burglary continued to increase to 0.6% in 1990, but later dropped at precisely 0.4% in 2000. Conversely, the street robbery fluctuated from 0.1% to 0.18% and maintain at roughly 0.1% throughout the end of the period