Researchers for the Crime and Justice Survey, which was set up in 2003, found that more than a third of the 2,025 young people aged 10 to 15 interviewed in England and Wales said they had been victims of crime in the past year.
Other studies such as police crime statistics do not show the ages of the victims, and the British Crime Survey only interviews people over 16.
According to the Crime and Justice Survey, 35 per cent of 10- to 15-year-olds said they had been victims of crime, compared with 32 per cent of 16- to 25-year-olds. Only 14 per cent of the remaining group, people aged 26 to 65, had been targeted.
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