The chart below shows three different crimes and the number of cases committed between 1970 and 2005 in England and Wales. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The chart gives information about the number of crime cases in three categories occurred in England and Wales between 1970 and 2005.
Car theft generally had the highest record over the 35-year period. There were 0.4 million cases in 1970, then the increase was continuous till 1995 which was a peak record with 1.6 million cases. Afterwards, the figure drastically dropped to 1 million in 2005, remaining the top one among the three crimes though.
House burgling was the second serious crime starting with 0.2 million cases. It overtook car theft in 1978, reaching its peak at 0.9 million cases two years later, but a downward trend appeared in the following 5 years. As for street robbery, it barely grew until the year of 2000 when it exceeded 0.2 million cases for the first time. By 2005, the growth had reached a point that was very close to the record of house burgling.
Overall, car theft was the main crime during the period whereas house burgling and street robbery were less serious.