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Notes 1.
For example, see Table A1 in Appendix tables 2011-12 – Crime in England and Wales, year ending March 2012.
2.
See OfCom: The Consumer Experience of 2012 and OfCom: Communications Market Report 2012.
3.
These are theft offences which involve items stolen from victims while away from the home but not being carried on the person (such as theft of unattended property in pubs, restaurants, entertainment venues, workplaces, etc.).
4.
Analysis carried out on the 2007/08 CSEW showed similar results, see Chapter 2 in Home security, mobile phone theft and stolen goods: Supplementary Volume 3 to Crime in England and Wales 2007/08.
Circumstances of mobile phone theft The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) covers incidents where adult survey respondents have indicated that they had either personally been a victim of mobile phone theft (for example, during a robbery) or that their household had been a victim (for example, a mobile phone stolen during a burglary). This analysis is based on data for adults aged 16 or over only. Offence type As shown previously (section on Trend in incidents of mobile phone theft by offence type), a number of different types of offence may involve the theft of a mobile phone. According to the 2011/12 CSEW, the most common type of offence involving theft of a mobile phone was other personal theft where the phone was not in the owner’s possession at the time it was stolen; around 4 in 10 incidents (39%) involving mobile phone theft were other personal thefts. The next most common offence was theft from the person (32%), where the phone was in the owner’s possession when it was stolen but was taken without force (Appendix table 2.05 (829 Kb Excel sheet)). From the 2011/12 CSEW, in 85% of incidents where a mobile phone was stolen, the offences were crimes against the person, that is, theft from the person, robbery or other personal theft (Appendix table 2.06 (829 Kb Excel sheet)). The analysis that follows focuses on these crime types to explain 1
more about the most common incidents. Theft from the person and robbery offences (together accounting for 46% of mobile phone theft incidents) are analysed together as there are insufficient numbers of robbery cases to analyse these separately. Location of theft by offence type Figures 2.11 and 2.12 detail the location that mobile phone theft incidents took place (see also Appendix table 2.07 (829 Kb Excel sheet)).
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