Here you'll find a summary of the latest findings from the British Crime Survey on how much street violence there is in Britain, how serious it, who's doing it to whom and how effectively the police and criminal justice system are at dealing with it.

Drawing on the latest British Crime Survey, this paper shows that last year there were 1,206,000 incidents of street violence in England and Wales. With a clear up rate of 9%, the offenders were not brought to justice in a million of these crimes.  With the public's fear of being mugged or attacked by a stranger running at seven times the actual risk, this is a problem that Britain cannot afford to overlook any longer.

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