Experience of crime: findings from the 2012/13 Northern Ireland crime survey.

A National Statistics publication, the bulletin focuses on crime victimisation rates in Northern Ireland for the following broad crime types: • crimes affecting the whole household (mainly property offences), including vandalism, domestic burglary, vehicle-related theft, bicycle theft and other household theft; and • personal crimes against respondents only (mainly violent offences), including common assault, wounding, mugging (robbery and snatch theft from the person), stealth theft from the person and other theft of personal property. Key findings: • Results from the 2012/13 Northern Ireland Crime Survey (NICS) estimate that 10.9% of all households and their adult occupants were victims of at least one NICS crime during the 12 months prior to interview. While not statistically different from the NICS 2011/12 figure (11.2%), this represents the lowest NICS victimisation (prevalence) rate since the measure was first reported in NICS 1998 (23.0%). • This downward trend in victimisation estimates since NICS 1998 is consistent with police recorded crime figures for Northern Ireland which, at 100,389 offences in 2012/13, equates to the lowest level of crime recorded by the police since new counting rules were introduced in 1998/99. • While 2012/13 victimisation (prevalence) rates for almost all NICS offence types remained on a par with those measured in 2011/12, a statistically significant decrease (p