Band 7+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The line graph and pie chart below show information on crime in the UK for the last year. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

The graphic shows a breakdown of crime statistics in the UK for last year. The line graph shows the interrelation between criminal activity and age while the pie chart illustrates the proportion of four different crime types.

When looking at the line graph it is immediately clear that young people accounted for a disproportionately high level of crime last year and that the age at which people are involved in criminal activity peaks at twenty with nearly a million crimes being committed by people of this age. The number of crimes then plummeted before levelling off at 28. the likelihood of being involved in criminal activity continued to decline with age.

Of the crimes identified in the bar chart, violent crime was the most common at nearly half of the total, and there were twice as many crimes involving violence as there were property or drug crime. Less serious anti social behaviour related crime was relatively low.

Overall, it is clear that young people were much more likely to be the perpetrators of crime and that the majority of this crime was violence related.