Shoplifting
(asked on 10th December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people convicted of shoplifting were first-time offenders in each of the last five years.
Shoplifting can have a serious financial impact on the businesses affected and the local economy and prosecutions will be brought where appropriate.
The table below shows the number of first time offenders to the criminal justice system in England and Wales convicted for Shoplifting in the 12 months ending June 2010 to 12 months ending June 2014.
First time offenders to the criminal justice system(1) in England and Wales, convicted for Shoplifting, 12 months ending June 2010 to 12 months ending June 2014 | |
12 month period to the end of June | Number of offenders |
2010 | 2,106 |
2011 | 2,032 |
2012 | 1,924 |
2013 | 1,826 |
2014 | 1,887 |
Source: Police National Computer, Ministry of Justice | |
Notes: | |
(1) Offenders recorded on the Police National Computer by an English or Welsh police force as having received their first conviction. Where there were multiple offences on the same occasion, the figures only include primary offences recorded as shoplifting on the Police National Computer. | |
The Ministry of Justice’s extract of the Police National Computer (PNC), which is used for all analyses of offenders’ histories, only holds details on convictions given for recordable offences and does not generally include non-recordable summary offences usually heard in Magistrates courts. In addition, as with any large scale recording system the PNC is subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.