Fly-tipping: Causes, Incentives and Solutions - Keep Britain Tidy

Fly-tipping: Causes, Incentives and Solutions
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% Offences
26 9 7 17 13 28 46
ALL
% Offenders 61 14 11 7 1 3 1 2 1 170
OFFENCES % Offences 30 14 17 14 3 9 2 7 4 342
Source: Home Office Police National Computer.
The implication is that a small number of offenders don’t appear to have been
deterred by their first experiences of the criminal justice system and continue
to commit a large number of fly-tipping offences.
In addition to fly-tipping, 45% of this sample of 170 fly-tippers had criminal
careers, which included other offences. At Table 5.3 shows, 77 fly-tippers also
had convictions for 1,008 other offences.
Table 5.3: Number of non-fly-tipping offences committed by fly-tipping
offenders.
Offence
Number of
Offences
Number of Offenders
(offenders may appear in
more than one offence
category)
Summary motoring offences 255 28
Theft and handling stolen goods 185 50
Summary offences (exc. Motoring) 164 50
Other indictable offences (exc.
58
Motoring) 99
Unknown / Non England & Wales 72 23
Burglary 62 22
Violence against the person 50 25
Drug offences 37 14
Criminal damage 32 19
Fraud and forgery 30 15
Indictable motoring offences 15 9
Sexual offences 5 4
Robbery 2 2
Total 1,008 77
Source: Home Office Police National Computer.
Further analysis was carried out to test whether fly-tippers have particular
criminal careers and profiles. In relation to prolificacy, there seemed little
relationship between a prolific general crime career and degree of
involvement in fly-tipping. A Pearson’s correlation was conducted between the
proportion of fly-tipping offences in an offender’s criminal history and the total
number of offences committed. Results showed a significant negative
correlation (r= -.57, p