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    "source": "Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) + Police Recorded Crime (PRC) + Criminal Court Statistics",
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          "publisher": "Office for National Statistics",
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    "expiresAt": "2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z",
    "headline": {
      "publisher": "Office for National Statistics",
      "publicationTitle": "Crime in England and Wales: year ending March 2026",
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      "title": "Crime experienced by households and individuals",
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      "summary": "9.6 million CSEW headline crime incidents were estimated in the latest survey, with no statistically significant annual change.",
      "caveat": "The CSEW is the preferred measure for long-term trends in common crimes. Estimates cover people aged 16 and over, exclude some populations and are subject to sampling uncertainty.",
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        {
          "id": "headlineCrime",
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          "displayValue": "9.6 million",
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          "changeLabel": "No statistically significant change from the previous survey"
        },
        {
          "id": "theft",
          "label": "Theft",
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          "displayValue": "2.6 million",
          "unit": "estimated incidents",
          "changeLabel": "No statistically significant change from the previous survey"
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        {
          "id": "otherHouseholdTheft",
          "label": "Other household theft",
          "value": 791000,
          "displayValue": "791,000",
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          "changeLabel": "21% higher than the previous survey"
        },
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          "id": "fraud",
          "label": "Fraud",
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          "displayValue": "4.5 million",
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          "changeLabel": "No statistically significant change from the previous survey"
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        {
          "id": "computerMisuse",
          "label": "Computer misuse",
          "value": 798000,
          "displayValue": "798,000",
          "unit": "estimated incidents",
          "changeLabel": "No statistically significant change from the previous survey"
        },
        {
          "id": "violence",
          "label": "Violence with or without injury",
          "value": 989000,
          "displayValue": "989,000",
          "unit": "estimated incidents",
          "changeLabel": "No statistically significant change from the previous survey"
        },
        {
          "id": "criminalDamage",
          "label": "Criminal damage",
          "value": 646000,
          "displayValue": "646,000",
          "unit": "estimated incidents",
          "changeLabel": "No statistically significant change from the previous survey"
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      "title": "Crimes recorded by the police",
      "sourceLabel": "Home Office police recorded crime, published by ONS",
      "summary": "Police recorded around 5.2 million crimes excluding fraud and computer misuse, 1% fewer than the previous year.",
      "caveat": "Police-recorded crime is not the preferred measure for general crime trends because reporting, recording practices and police activity change. It is more useful for lower-volume, higher-harm offences. Recorded fraud and computer misuse are excluded while the new Report Fraud system is being introduced.",
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        {
          "id": "recordedCrime",
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          "unit": "recorded offences",
          "changeLabel": "1% lower than the previous year"
        },
        {
          "id": "homicide",
          "label": "Homicide",
          "value": 499,
          "displayValue": "499",
          "unit": "recorded offences",
          "changeLabel": "7% lower than the previous year · 8.1 per million people"
        },
        {
          "id": "knife",
          "label": "Knife or sharp instrument offences",
          "value": 48774,
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          "unit": "recorded offences",
          "changeLabel": "8% lower than the previous year"
        },
        {
          "id": "firearms",
          "label": "Firearms offences",
          "value": 5151,
          "displayValue": "5,151",
          "unit": "recorded offences",
          "changeLabel": "8% lower than the previous year"
        },
        {
          "id": "personalRobbery",
          "label": "Robbery of personal property",
          "value": 57693,
          "displayValue": "57,693",
          "unit": "recorded offences",
          "changeLabel": "9% lower than the previous year"
        },
        {
          "id": "shoplifting",
          "label": "Shoplifting",
          "value": 507086,
          "displayValue": "507,086",
          "unit": "recorded offences",
          "changeLabel": "4% lower than the previous year"
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      "status": "available",
      "title": "Criminal court timeliness",
      "sourceLabel": "Ministry of Justice Criminal court statistics quarterly",
      "summary": "Median completion times increased in both magistrates’ courts and the Crown Court compared with the same quarter a year earlier.",
      "caveat": "Court timeliness measures completed defendant cases and is backwards-looking. It must not be presented as a crime rate or combined with victimisation and recorded-offence totals.",
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          "id": "magistratesChargeToCompletion",
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          "changeLabel": "Up from 180 days a year earlier"
        },
        {
          "id": "crownOffenceToCompletion",
          "label": "Crown Court: offence to completion",
          "value": 346,
          "displayValue": "346 days",
          "unit": "median days",
          "changeLabel": "Up from 326 days a year earlier"
        }
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      "sourceUrl": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2026/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2026",
      "period": "January to March 2026",
      "releaseDate": "2026-06-25"
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    "regional": {
      "status": "unavailable",
      "title": "Regional comparisons",
      "reason": "No regional ranking is published until one versioned Police Force Area table is joined to official geography and population inputs with reproducible rate calculations."
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