This shows that while there were 2.1 million incidents in total during 2009 where a 10- to 15-year-old was a victim of a crime, about half of these were minor incidents, such as stealing dinner money in a school playground.
In only 404,000 cases did the young person see themselves as a victim of a crime.
The figures are also broken down further to show that the majority of incidents happened within school and were handled by senior school staff without court or police involvement. Just 643,000 incidents occurred outside school, the figures reveal.
The government has launched a consultation around this experimental approach to releasing crime figures.
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