Governmental Jurisdiction
Responsibility for crime in England and Wales is split between the Home Office, the government department responsible for reducing and preventing crime, along with law enforcement in the United Kingdom; and the Ministry of Justice, which runs the Justice system, including its courts and prisons. In Scotland, this responsibility falls on the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, which acts as the sole public prosecutor in Scotland, and is therefore responsible for the prosecution of crime in Scotland.
The government believes it has reduced the chance of being a victim of crime from 40% to 22% between 1995 and 2008, although conservative figures suggest that the United Kingdom has the second highest overall crime rate in Europe, and that violent attacks have increased by 77% between 1997 and 2009.
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