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Last update: Wednesday 25th March




About 16% of motorists now have penalty points, with 3% being one offence away from a driving ban. In the last 12 months motorists have paid out more than £121 million in speeding fines and 92% of motoring convictions over the last two years were for speeding.
Crime	The Sentinel – 9th March 2006



British Telecom blocks 20,000 attempts per day of people trying to watch pornographic acts with children on the internet.
Crime	BT Retail & BBC Today Programme



60 million acts of crime happen in the UK each year.
Crime	Civitas



Race hate crime soared 29% last year. The Crown Prosecution Service prosecuted 4,660 defendants for racially aggravated offences in England and Wales in 2004/05, up from 3,616 in the previous 12 months. The number of religiously aggravated cases dropped to 34 from 49 the year before. In 67% of religion cases the victims were Muslim. From a total of 6,200 individual charges prosecuted, 2,506 were dropped – 480 because the witness failed to show up, and 293 because they refused to co-operate.
Crime	The Sentinel – 11th November 2005



Nearly 85,000 men and women are incarcerated each day in the UK’s 156 prisons.
Crime	Evangelical Times – October 2005



An expert from Brazil’s Nationals Movement of Street Children says that between four and five adolescents are murdered daily; that every 12 minutes a child is beaten; that 4.5 million children under 12 are working and that 500,000 children are engaged in domestic labour. In 40% of crimes children are the victims.
Crime	The Universe – 9th October 2005



Guatemala is a dangerous place for women, according to a report by Amnesty International, with more being murdered and abused, the numbers rising from 222 recorded murders in the whole of 2001 to 225 in the first five months of 2005. More than one a day. Fewer than one in ten of these murders has been investigated. The Toybox Charity – October / November 2005 Baptist church attendance is forecast to decline at a rate of 1.4% per year, the Methodist Church will see a drop of 6.8%, the Church of England 2.5%, and the Catholic Church 2.9%.
Crime	The Baptist Times – 8th September 2005



One in 20 people have returned from holiday to find that their house had been burgled. Although many admitted they left a window or door unlocked, new research has shown. One in five homeowners bought security lights or burglar alarms, but forgot to set them before they went away.
Crime	The Sentinel – 26th August 2005



The typical sounds of the streets at night in Guatemala City echo the fear that is the product of an increasingly violent society. There were 408 reported murders of children and youth in the first ten months of 2002, a 27% increase and a figure still rising.
Crime	The Toybox Charity – August 2005



A total of 1888 motorists in England and Wales were given a £30 fine for driving while using a hand-held mobile phone in December 2003.
Crime	The Independent – 12th July 2005



More than 100 victims of domestic violence have been forced to give evidence against their will in just one month.
Crime	The Sentinel – 29th June 2005



There were 82,400 exclusions of children from schools in England and Wales in the summer term 2003; 14% due to violence against another pupil. More than 50,000 pupils play truant every day in England and Wales. 98% of persistent juvenile offenders come from broken homes. On average two schools suffer arson attacks every day in the UK at an annual cost of £73 million. 100,000 children run away from home every year.
Crime	Crown and Commonwealth – Spring 2005



Between 1999 and 2002 there was a 30% rise in violence against church workers. An independent report by the University of London Royal Holloway (Violence against Professionals 2001) surveyed 1,000 full time clergy in the South East of England. It found that 12% had been physically assaulted.
Crime	Church of England Newspaper – 13th May 2005



Almost one in five teenage girls have been hit by their boyfriend and 43% believe that violence of this kind is okay, according to a recent survey carried out by the NSPCC and Sugar magazine. Over 2,000 girls were questioned, 16% of whom had been struck by their partner. 15% had been pushed and 4% had been regularly attacked. One of the most revealing statistics showed that 32% of girls who had violent boyfriends also had violent parents. The NSPCC believes this shows a clear link between those who are attacked at home then go on to be attacked by partners. 6% of the 13-19 year olds questioned had been forced to have sex with their boyfriends. Although a percentage of those questioned had been hit by their parents (20%), seen their parents hit each other (11%), and witnessed them screaming and shouting at each other (25%), more than half did not view those incidents as domestic violence.
Crime	Youthwork - May 2005



One in four women will experience domestic violence at some time in their lives. In fact for every minute of every day in the UK, the police are called upon for help due to domestic violence. The sad outcome being that every two victims of domestic violence in the UK are murdered.
Crime	Christianity - April 2005

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