Notes:

1.    Source for the recorded crime statistics: Table 6, Home Office Statistical Bulletin 12/00 (2000)

2.    BCS – British Crime Survey. The number of crimes upon which the BCS multiplier estimates in Table 2.2 are based are adapted from Table 4.1 and Appendix C of the 1998 British Crime Survey (Mirlees Black et al., 1998). The estimated number of actual incidents are different from those quoted in the British Crime Survey because they have been adjusted to include crimes against under 16s and crime recorded by the British Transport Police.

3.    CVS = Commercial Victimisation Survey (Mirrlees Black and Ross, 1995).

4.    NERA = National Economic Research Associates. NERA (2000) estimated the total actual number of fraud and forgery offences, rather than a multiplier on recorded offences. The multiplier estimate is therefore the total estimated number of offences divided by the number of recorded offences.

5.    Figures may not sum to total due to rounding.

6.    Sources of unpublished multiplier estimates: Homicide – assumed that all offences are recorded. Other theft and handling – roughly equal to a multiplier for all BCS crime, and for all comparable BCS property theft. Burglary not in a dwelling – half the BCS estimate for burglary in a dwelling. Theft from a shop – based on survey of literature on nature and extent of shoplifting by Farrington (1999). Criminal damage against commercial and public sector – multiplier assumed equal to multiplier for criminal damage against individuals and households.

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