Crime and Punishment: Interpreting the Data

acquittal rates adults age group analysis arrested average Borstal British Crime Survey burglary Burrows and Tarling cautioning rates changes chapter children's hearings clear clear-up rate committed compared convicted crime rate criminal damage criminal justice Crown Court custodial sentences decisions detection discharge England and Wales evidence factors Farrington females figures found guilty Greater Manchester guilty or cautioned handling stolen HMSO Home Office 1984b Home Office Research imprisonment increase indictable offences juvenile justice juvenile offenders juveniles cautioned known offenders less London magistrates males McClintock and Avison Metropolitan Police District net-widening non-indictable Northern Ireland Northern Ireland Office notifiable offences Nottinghamshire offence group official statistics parole Pease period person police cautioning prison population Prison Statistics probation procurator fiscal proportion prosecution punishment recorded crime recorded offences referrals sentence band sentence length sexual offences shows social summons suspended sentences Table theft trends trial type of offence unemployment variation victim violence