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• Crime in England and Wales: year ending March 2022
• Child victims of modern slavery in the UK: March 2022
• Datasets related to Crime and justice
• Violence against women and girls: Data landscape
• Appendix tables : Police recorded offences involving knives or sharp instruments: methodology changes
• The nature of violent crime: appendix tables
• Appendix tables: homicide in England and Wales
• Offences involving the use of weapons: data tables
• Methodology note on the possible order effect on responses to questions on anti-social behaviour from changes in the Crime Survey for England and Wales questionnaire - Appendix tables
• Publications related to Crime and justice
• Statistical bulletins
• Methodology related to Crime and justice

Crime in England and Wales: year ending March 2022

What's in the bulletin?

• Patterns of crime over the last two years have been substantially affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and government restrictions on social contact. While periods of national lockdown have seen decreases in the incidence of many types of crime, fraud and computer misuse offences have not followed a lockdown-related pattern and have increased substantially.
• Since restrictions were lifted following the third national lockdown in early 2021, police recorded crime data show indications that certain offence types are returning to or exceeding the levels seen before the pandemic. While violence and sexual offences recorded by the police have exceeded pre-coronavirus pandemic levels, theft offences and robbery remain at a lower level despite increases over the last twelve months.
• In this bulletin, the Telephone-operated Crime Survey for England and Wales (TCSEW) provides crime estimates for the year ending March 2022. The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), which resumed in October 2021, has allowed us to provide prevalence estimates of domestic abuse and sexual assault for the first time since the year ending March 2020 [note 1].

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Child victims of modern slavery in the UK: March 2022

What's in the bulletin?

• An increase of 27% (to 3,239) in the number of modern slavery offences involving a child victim recorded by the police in England and Wales in the year ending March 2021 compared with the previous year.
• A 43% decrease in the number of potential child victims reported to the Modern Slavery and Exploitation Helpline in the year ending December 2021 compared with the previous year.
• 16,830 episodes of need for child sexual exploitation and 2,710 for trafficking identified by the Department for Education’s children in need census in the year ending March 2021, both representing a 10% decrease from the previous year; likely the result of a fall in referrals from schools during the pandemic

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Datasets related to Crime and justice

• Violence against women and girls: Data landscape

  A comprehensive list of data sources relating to violence against women and girls, bringing together a range of different sources from across government, academia and the voluntary sector.

• Appendix tables : Police recorded offences involving knives or sharp instruments: methodology changes

  Selected violent and sexual offences involving a knife or sharp instrument recorded by the police, year ending March 2020 previous method of collection compared to new NDQIS method.

• The nature of violent crime: appendix tables

  Violent crime numbers, prevalence and location from the Crime Survey for England and Wales and police recorded crime. Also includes data from the telephone-operated Crime Survey for England and Wales showing prevalence of violence for May 2020 to March 2021 and various demographic characteristics.

• Appendix tables: homicide in England and Wales

  Findings from the analyses based on the Homicide Index recorded by the Home Office, including long-term trends, sex of the victim, apparent method of killing and relationship to victim.

• Offences involving the use of weapons: data tables

  Data tables relating to offences involving weapons as recorded by police and hospital episode statistics.

• Methodology note on the possible order effect on responses to questions on anti-social behaviour from changes in the Crime Survey for England and Wales questionnaire - Appendix tables

  Appendix tables to accompany the methodology note that presents findings from analysis to investigate whether increases in anti social behaviour (ASB) are a result of an order effect caused by changes to the survey instrument or are indicative of a genuine rise in these experiences.

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Statistical bulletins

• Perceptions of personal safety and experiences of harassment, Great Britain: 16 February to 13 March 2022

  Perceptions of safety and experiences of harassment, by personal characteristics, based on the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN).

• Crime in England and Wales: year ending March 2022

  Crime against households and adults using data from police recorded crime and the Telephone-operated Crime Survey for England and Wales. Includes the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on crime and people’s perceptions of crime during the April 2021 to March 2022 interview periods. See Section 12 for information on our upcoming user consultation on the future of the Crime Survey for England and Wales.

• Child abuse in England and Wales: March 2020

  Statistics and research on child abuse in England and Wales, bringing together a range of different data sources from across government and the voluntary sector.

• Sexual offences in England and Wales overview: year ending March 2020

  Figures on sexual offences from the year ending March 2020 Crime Survey for England and Wales and crimes recorded by police.

• Domestic abuse in England and Wales overview: November 2021

  Figures on domestic abuse from police recorded crime and a number of different organisations.

• Online bullying in England and Wales: year ending March 2020

  Estimates of the prevalence and nature of online bullying among children using data from the 10- to 15-year-olds’ Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW).

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Articles

• The impact of crime on victims and society

  This article summarises the crime harm framework that has been used to categorise existing related data in the new crime harm interactive database. It also includes information on how to use the recently updated Crime Severity Score data tool.

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• Homicide in England and Wales

  Analyses of information held within the Home Office Homicide Index, which contains detailed record-level information about each homicide recorded by police in England and Wales.

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Methodology related to Crime and justice