Criminal justice statistics

This GOV.UK page includes statistics on:

• public protection
• reducing reoffending
• access to justice
• prison and probation data
• contracted services
• courts and legal aid data

• out of court disposals (cautions and penalty notices for disorder (PNDs))
• remands
• prosecutions
• convictions
• sentencing outcomes (immediate custody, suspended sentence orders, community orders, fines, discharges)
• sentence lengths
• criminal histories of offenders (first time entrants and previous convictions)

Frequency: quarterly and annual (can be found within the December quarterly update)

This is the Sentencing Council’s main source of statistical information on sentencing practice in England and Wales. The annual publication includes lots of additional tools, and it is possible to find statistics on sentencing for specific offences, broken down by age group, sex and ethnicity.

• court receipts, disposals and outstanding criminal cases
• effectiveness of trials
• stages at which guilty pleas were entered at the Crown Court
• average waiting times
• average hearing times
• appeals
• average number of days from offence to completion
• enforcement of financial penalties
• financial imposition
• completed service requests

Frequency: quarterly

Frequency: quarterly

This publication includes statistics on civil cases (excluding-family) and judicial reviews.

Civil cases:

• claims issued in the county and magistrates’ courts
• claims defended and allocations to track
• judgements and outcomes in the county courts
• number of trials and average time to reach trial
• legal representation
• warrants issued
• enforcement related orders

Judicial reviews:

• number of case applications for permission to apply for Judicial Review
• case progression and timeliness
• number of cases classed as Totally Without Merit
• number of applications by defendant department or public body

Frequency: quarterly

Statistics on court caseload, appeals, days sat by judges and magistracy workforce are published annually in the “Royal Courts of Justice” tables within the landing page of the “January to March” publications.

• cautions and convictions
• breakdowns by offender age groups, police force area and plea
• sentencing outcomes
• average custodial sentence lengths

Frequency: quarterly and annual

Annual publication additionally covers financial years.

• legal aid expenditure
• workload (in volume and value)
• legal aid applications and grants
• Litigator and Advocate Graduated Fee Schemes
• legal help and Controlled Legal Representation
• civil legal aid
• client diversity

Frequency: quarterly

Frequency: annual

There is no specific web page for the series, so the link above takes you to the webpage where you can find the most recent version.

Frequency: weekly and monthly

Monthly publication provides further breakdowns by prison establishment.

• prison population
• prison receptions, admissions and releases
• adjudications
• license recalls
• offenders on probation
• offenders supervised in the community through community orders, suspended sentence orders, pre-release supervision and post-sentence supervision
• offenders commencing community orders and suspended sentence orders, and the requirements included in their orders
• terminations of orders by reason
• pre-sentence reports (PSR)
• ex-service personnel in the prison population

Frequency: quarterly and annual (can be found within the quarterly update for October to December)

• deaths in prison by apparent cause (self-inflicted, homicide, natural causes, other)
• self-harm in prison
• assaults on staff and other prisoners

Frequency: quarterly

This publication includes tailored reports for organisations who have requested re-offending data through the Justice Data Lab.

• proportion of offenders who reoffend within a given period
• types of offences and outcomes for offenders who reoffend
• adult and juvenile offenders

• stops and searches
• arrests for recorded crime (notifiable offences)
• first time entrants
• demographic characteristics
• proven offences
• sentencing outcomes
• remand
• youth custody population
• behaviour management (Restrictive Physical Intervention, self-harm, assaults, single separation and use of force)
• reoffending and criminal histories
• comparison with adults

This publication includes statistics on crime against households and adults using police recorded crime data and the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW).

• charged or summonsed
• out of court disposals (caution or Penalty Notices for Disorder)
• prosecution prevented or not in the public interest
• evidential difficulties
• investigation complete – no suspect identified
• action taken by another body or agency

• arrests and outcomes
• demographic characteristics of persons arrested
• court proceedings and sentencing
• stops and searches

Frequency: quarterly

This publication includes statistics on football-related arrests and banning orders, covering:

• breakdowns by club supported
• reported incidents at football matches
• online hate crime

Perceptions of safety and experiences of harassment broken down by characteristics such as sex and disability, based on the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN).

This publication includes statistics from the annual Commercial Victimisation Survey, covering:

• frequency and types of crime
• cost and impact of crime
• crime prevention measures
• attitudes to crime

This publication includes statistics on police recorded hate crime related to:

• race or ethnicity
• religion or beliefs
• sexual orientation
• disability
• transgender identity

This GOV.UK page includes data on different ethnic groups in relation to:

• policing
• crime and reoffending
• courts, sentencing and tribunals
• prison and custody incidents

The Women and Ethnicity reports include a wide range of statistics related to the criminal justice system, broken down by sex and by ethnicity. They include statistics on:

• victims
• stops, searches and arrests
• out of court disposals
• remands
• prosecutions, convictions and sentencing
• guilty plea rates
• offenders under supervision (community orders and suspended sentence orders)
• prison population
• self-harm and experiences in prison
• reoffending rates
• practitioners (those working in the criminal justice system)

This publication includes statistics on:

• types of judges by gender, age group, ethnicity and professional background
• magistrates by gender, age group and ethnicity
• judicial selection exercises