The line graph and pie chart below show information on crime in the UK for the last year. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The line chart depicts the crime rates in different
age
groups, among the British population. The pie chart further
projects a break down
of four types of criminal offences: violent, property, drug or public order Correct your spelling
breakdown
crimes
, in the past year.
Overall
, young adults seem to be most frequently involved in illegal activities. Additionally
, violence being one of the major contributors, is closely followed by drug and property crime.
The beginning of committing offences is recorded starting at the age
of 8-12-year-olds, with below 50 thousand
Correct your spelling
50,000
crimes
, in lower age
groups no cases
were present. This
skyrocketed to as many as 800 thousand
crimes
among 20-year-old citizens. An approximate total of 2.1 million criminal cases
were registered, prosecuting people between the ages of 16 and 24. These figures dramatically fell for the population older than 28 years, to only 200 thousand
cases
; continued this
pattern and tapered down till the age
of 60 to under 100 thousand
cases
.
Moving on to the pie chart, it is clear that
violent crimes
are almost 50% of all reported cases
. Although
criminals arrested for illegal drugs and property scams are about the same, at 22%. Public misdemeanour makes up less than 10% of all activities.Submitted by Writing8
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Vocabulary: Replace the words age, crimes, thousand, cases with synonyms.
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