The latest quarterly figures from the British Crime Survey show 31 per cent of people interviewed thought it was a very or fairly big problem, compared with 28 per cent a year earlier.
Will McMahon, a senior associate at the Crime and Society Foundation, blamed the Government for representing it as a problem.
"Having it as a category in the British Crime Survey is prejudice," he added. "If any other group in society was mentioned in such a way there would definitely be uproar."
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