Shoplifting offences in England and Wales 2002-2024

There were almost 444,000 shoplifting offences recorded by the police in England and Wales in 2023/24, the highest in this provided time period. Between 2002/03 and 2012/13, shoplifting offences in England and Wales fluctuated between around 280,000 and 320,000 annual offences. From 2013/14 onwards, shoplifting offences began to increase, and reached a pre-2024 peak of around 382, 607 in 2017/18, before beginning to decline again in subsequent years. The 2020/21, and 2021/20 reporting years are not directly comparable to the other reporting years due to COVID-19 lockdowns that occurred at that time. Areas with the highest shoplifting rateAs of 2023/24, the shoplifting rate for England and Wales as a whole was 7.4 shoplifting offences per 1,000 population. Looking at individual police force areas, the area covered by Nottinghamshire Police Force, in the English East Midlands, had the highest shoplifting rate of 13.2, followed by Cleveland, in North East England, at 13.1. By contrast, the Dyfed-Powys Police Force Area, in Wales had the lowest shoplifting rate of just 3.9 offences per 1,000 population. Although Cleveland also had the highest overall crime rate in England and Wales, and Dyfed-Powys had one of the lowest, Nottinghamshire's crime rate was slightly below the overall average, despite having such a high shoplifting rate. Comparisons with other theft offencesShoplifting is one of the major sub-categories of theft in the jurisdiction of England and Wales. Although shoplifting offences have increased significantly recently, the number of theft offences overall has generally been falling. In 2002/03 for example, there were approximately 3.41 million incidences of theft, compared with just 1.78 million in 2023/24. This trend has been driven by declines in other types of theft, such as burglary, which fell from over 890,000 offences in 2002/03, to around 266,500 in 2023/24.

在2023/24年度，英格兰和威尔士警方记录了近444,000起盗窃未遂案件，创下了该时间段内的最高记录。在2002/03至2012/13年间，英格兰和威尔士的盗窃未遂案件年发生率介于约28万至32万之间。自2013/14年度起，盗窃未遂案件开始上升，并于2017/18年度达到382,607起的历史最高点，此后逐年有所下降。2020/21年度和2021/20年度的统计数据由于当时发生的COVID-19疫情封锁，与其他报告年度的数据不可直接比较。盗窃率最高的地区截至2023/24年度，英格兰和威尔士整体的盗窃未遂率为每千人口7.4起。在各个警力辖区中，位于英格兰东米德兰兹的诺丁汉郡警方辖区盗窃未遂率最高，达到13.2起/千人口，其次是英格兰东北部的克利夫兰，为13.1起/千人口。相比之下，威尔士的德维德-普瓦斯警力辖区盗窃未遂率最低，仅为每千人口3.9起。尽管克利夫兰在英格兰和威尔士的整体犯罪率最高，而德维德-普瓦斯则处于最低水平之一，但诺丁汉的犯罪率略低于平均水平，尽管其盗窃未遂率极高。与其他盗窃罪行的比较在英格兰和威尔士的司法管辖区中，盗窃未遂是盗窃的主要子类别之一。尽管近年来盗窃未遂案件显著增加，但总体盗窃案件的数量总体上一直在下降。例如，在2002/03年度，盗窃事件约为341万起，而到2023/24年度仅为178万起。这一趋势是由其他类型盗窃的下降所推动的，例如入室盗窃，其犯罪率从2002/03年度的超过890,000起下降到2023/24年度的约266,500起。