§ 16. Sir T. Mooreasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the number of crimes of violence against the person and the number of sexual offences, including rape, for the year 1961; and what percentage of these offences was committed by juvenile offenders.
§ Mr. Fletcher-Cooke17,601 indictable offences of violence against the person and 20,404 indictable sexual offences, including 503 offences of rape, were known to the police in 1961 in England and Wales.
The ages of the persons committing these offences are not known, but in 1961 15 per cent. of the persons convicted of indictable offences of violence against the person and 19 per cent. of those convicted of indictable sexual offences were under seventeen.