Crime in England and Wales: year ending March 2022

[NewPotatoSalad]

I refer to this:

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2022#main-points

Did a search. Not one mention of "woman", "women" "girls".

Interestingly, no mention of "men", "man", "boy" either,

Puzzling.

Quote:

"Given the user need for domestic abuse and sexual assault data from the CSEW [Crime Survey for England and Wales] we present prevalence estimates based on six months of CSEW data collected between October 2021 and March 2022. These estimates are based on a smaller sample size than usual and should be treated with caution. They showed:

5.7% of adults aged 16 to 59 years experienced domestic abuse in the year ending March 2022, no significant change compared with the year ending March 2020 (6.1%)

2.7% of adults aged 16 to 59 years had experienced sexual assault (including attempted offences) in the year ending March 2022, no significant change compared with the year ending March 2020 (2.2%)."

Unquote.

But in this report, the words "woman", "women" and "girl" "girls" do not appear. And to be fair, neither do the words "man", "men" "boy" "boys".

It's just adults aged 16 to 59 years experienced domestic abuse," and "2.7% of adults aged 16 to 59 years had experienced sexual assault (including attempted offences)."

This report obliterates the experiences of girls and women, and boys and men, by amalgamating the experiences of all into "adults" and ignoring the huge power differential completely.

This particular bulletin does not report on crime by sex or gender of the victims or perpetrators and looking at previous releases it never has. It also doesn’t report on crime by race, age group (other than being adults), disability status, sexuality or any other protected characteristic. It’s a very high level view of crime.

Other ONS reports on crime do look at these distinctions, though how they define “Men” and “Women” is unlikely to be satisfactory.

Thank you for your response, NumberTheory.

But if the crime survey is not looking at *Who are committing the majority of crimes, especially violent crimes, and with particular attention to sex crimes" then what is the bloody point of it?

The Crime Survey for England and Wales does ask about victim and offender characteristics. The ONS produces a whole bunch of reports based on the crime survey which look at this in various ways.

This particular bulletin is just one report based on that data and it is a high level look at crime rates over the last few years.