Young Crime: Youth Crime Statistics

INTRODUCTION

We created this blog to increase awareness of the fact that 'young people’s opinions can affect local policing.' The police want to ‘empower young people to come forward and tell the police of the issues they face’. We want to show the effort the police and the government are making to reduce youth crime by improving the lives of young people. Hopefully this will help result in a better relationship between young people & the police.We also want to raise awareness of the reasons why young people turn to crime. Perhaps if we know what causes youths to turn to crime, this information can help parents, teachers, other adults to prevent young people from resorting to crime.

Friday 10 December 2010

Youth Crime Statistics

Hello,

We have researched and found:

Crime statistics based on the British Crime Survey (BCS) and police records show that crime has dropped by 9% in 2009-10 compared to last year!

According to the Youth Offender Team (YOT), data published by the Ministry of Justice showed that violent crime amongst youths actually fell between 2007/08 and 2008/09 nationwide.

(YOT Data for the year 2009/10 has recently been published (click link)