The line graph illustrates the percentage of three crimes: car theft, house burglary, and street robbery in England and Wales, between 1970 and 2000.
Overall, there was a gradual decrease in crimes across this time period. While two criminal acts had a substantial rise and then a fall, on the contrary, the third one was stable across the period.
Firstly, in the years between 1970 to 1985, car theft had a steady rise from 0.4 to to 1.4%, in contrast, house burglary had only a gradual increase from over 0.2 to 0.6%. However, the growth of street robbery was stabilized below 0.2%.
After 1985, car theft sleeply fell to 0.8%, whereas, house burglary continue to increase till 1990 and then dip to 0.4% in 2000. Also, there was no significant growth or decline in street robbery. In addition, over the time period from 1970 to 2000, car theft was the most frequent crime and street robbery was the least happening one.