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<p>Shoplifting can have a serious financial impact on the businesses affected and
the local economy and prosecutions will be brought where appropriate.</p><p>The table
below shows the number of first time offenders to the criminal justice system in England
and Wales convicted for Shoplifting in the 12 months ending June 2010 to 12 months
ending June 2014.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>First time offenders
to the criminal justice system<sup>(1) </sup>in England and Wales, convicted for Shoplifting,
12 months ending June 2010 to 12 months ending June 2014</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td>
</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>12 month period to the end of June</p></td><td><p><strong>Number
of offenders</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2,106</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2,032</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1,924</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1,826</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1,887</p></td></tr><tr><td>
</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong><em>Source: Police National Computer,
Ministry of Justice</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>Notes:</em></strong></p></td><td>
</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><em>(1) Offenders recorded on the Police National
Computer by an English or Welsh police force as having received their first conviction.
Where there were multiple offences on the same occasion, the figures only include
primary offences recorded as shoplifting on the Police National Computer.</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>The Ministry of Justice’s extract of the Police National Computer (PNC), which
is used for all analyses of offenders’ histories, only holds details on convictions
given for recordable offences and does not generally include non-recordable summary
offences usually heard in Magistrates courts. In addition, as with any large scale
recording system the PNC is subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p>
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