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The BCS collected information about victimization from a representative sample of 11,000 people in England and Wales. There was much less crime recorded than actually occurred because of underreporting. The survey indicated around 4 times as many offenses of property loss and damage than official statistics and around 5 times as many offenses of violence (wounding, robbery, and sexual offenses). Even more shoplifting cases go unreported than these crimes. The elderly were the group least likely to be victims of violent crime. Those most at risk were young men who spent several evenings out each week and drank heavily. Motor vehicles were the target of 1 in 3 property crimes covered by the BCS. The average household can expect to be burgled once every 40 years, but houses in the inner city were burgled once every 13 years, on the average. People were most worried about burglary and street crimes …