Burglary And Violent Crime

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of (a) 17 to 20-year-olds, and (b) adults were sentenced to immediate custody for burglary and violence against the person in magistrates' and Crown courts, by police force area in 1986.

Information by police force area about the proportion of offenders aged 17 to 20 and 21 and sentenced for offences of burglary and violence against the person receiving immediate custody is given in the following table:

	Magistrates' courts				Crown court
	Burglary		Violence against the person		Burglary		Violence against the person
Police force area	17–20	21 and over	17–20	21 and over	17–20	21 and over	17–20	21 and over
Hertfordshire	16	17	8	3	60	69	48	57
Humberside	20	13	10	4	61	56	41	48
Kent	22	30	7	8	51	65	53	48
Lancashire	24	23	7	9	70	67	53	50
Leicestershire	15	24	11	8	66	62	61	49
Lincolnshire	20	12	11	7	50	72	63	51
City of London	20	33	8	7	50	67	—	16
Merseyside	19	20	9	6	67	67	41	45
Metropolitan Police District	21	21	8	9	59	61	47	46
Norfolk	15	24	7	7	73	68	67	47
Northamptonshire	15	10	5	4	66	63	60	57
Northumbria	21	14	7	7	61	55	51	41
North Yorkshire	20	30	2	5	63	67	57	38
Nottinghamshire	9	12	8	5	74	58	58	42
South Yorkshire	11	12	10	5	56	62	55	48
Staffordshire	18	16	8	4	64	65	46	39
Suffolk	15	13	9	5	64	86	58	59
Surrey	16	18	6	3	65	69	36	28
Sussex	20	29	11	9	63	61	55	53
Thames Valley	16	22	9	6	63	70	70	54
Warwickshire	12	19	5	9	69	77	54	55
West Mercia	21	17	10	5	72	77	49	51
West Midlands	15	15	12	7	65	62	62	51
West Yorkshire	11	16	7	8	61	59	46	44
Wiltshire	13	10	6	3	56	80	70	44
Dyfed-Powys	16	14	2	6	55	68	40	38
Gwent	23	27	8	5	59	64	33	49
North Wales	13	13	10	5	75	82	72	60
South Wales	16	14	9	6	69	68	47	48
England and Wales	18	19	9	7	63	64	52	47

Volume 136: debated on Tuesday 5 July 1988