Some of the main statistical publications on crime and justice produced by government departments such as the Ministry of Justice, the Home Office and the Office for National Statistics can be found below.

Each of these government departments produce many more publications than those listed; this list just includes the main statistical publications related to crime and criminal justice specifically.

Click on the title of a publication to take you to further information on what it includes, how frequently it is released (where known) and a link to the external website where you can access the publication. The link is in the publication title before the publication blurb.

Justice Data – a compilation of statistics on a wide range of justice related topics.

Courts and Sentencing

Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly

Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly

Crown Prosecution Service quarterly data summaries

Civil Justice Statistics quarterly

Knife and offensive weapon sentencing statistics

Legal Aid Statistics

Parole Board Annual Report and Accounts

Prisons, probation and re-offending

Prison population statistics

Offender Management Statistics Quarterly

Safety in Custody Statistics

Justice Data Lab Statistics

Proven Re-offending Statistics

Youth Justice Statistics

Police, victims and perceptions of crime

Crime in England and Wales

Crime outcomes in England and Wales

Seizures of drugs in England and Wales

Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 statistics

Football-related arrests and banning orders statistics

Domestic abuse and the criminal justice system

Perceptions of personal safety and experiences of harassment

Crime against businesses

Nature of fraud and computer misuse

Hate crime statistics

Demographics

The following publications focus on demographic characteristics, however, note that some of the publications mentioned above also include information on demographics (such as Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly).

Ethnicity facts and figures: Crime, justice and the law

Women and the Criminal Justice System

Ethnicity and the Criminal Justice System

Judicial Diversity Statistics

 

Justice Data

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

 

Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly
This publication includes statistics on:

  • 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.

 

Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly
This publication includes statistics on:

  • 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

 

Crown Prosecution Service quarterly data summaries
Performance information from the Crown Prosecution Service on overall prosecution, police referrals and charging rates regarding various crimes including rape, domestic abuse and hate crime.

Frequency: quarterly

 

Civil Justice Statistics 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.

 

Knife and offensive weapon sentencing statistics
This publication covers statistics on possession of or threatening with a knife or offence weapon, including:

  • 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 Statistics
This publication includes statistics on:

  • 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

 

Parole Board Annual Report and Accounts
This report includes statistics on Parole Board hearings, split by sentence type, review types and outcome (including releases).

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.

 

Prison population statistics
This publication provides high level figures on the total prison population and capacity.

Frequency: weekly and monthly

Monthly publication provides further breakdowns by prison establishment.

 

Offender Management Statistics Quarterly
This publication includes statistics on:

  • 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)

 

Safety in Custody Statistics
This publication includes statistics on:

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

Frequency: quarterly

 

Justice Data Lab Statistics

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

 

Proven Re-offending Statistics
This publication includes statistics on:

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

 

Youth Justice Statistics
This series of publications includes statistics on children and young people aged 10 to 17, including:

  • 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
Frequency: annual

 

Crime in England and Wales

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

Frequency: quarterly

 

Crime outcomes in England and Wales
This publication includes statistics on the different outcomes assigned to offences recorded by the police, such as:

  • 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
Frequency: annual

 

Seizures of drugs in England and Wales
This publication includes statistics on seizures of drugs made by local police forces and the UK Border Force.
Frequency: annual

 

Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 statistics
This publication includes statistics relating to the Terrorism Act 2000, covering:

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

Frequency: quarterly

 

Football-related arrests and banning orders statistics

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

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

 

Domestic abuse and the criminal justice system
An Office for National Statistics (ONS) publication which includes responses to and outcomes of domestic abuse-related cases in the criminal justice system.
Frequency: annual

 

Perceptions of personal safety and experiences of harassment

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

 

Crime against businesses

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
Frequency: annual

 

Nature of fraud and computer misuse
This publication includes statistics on fraud and computer misuse offences, and what these tell us about victims, circumstances, and long-term trends.
Frequency: biennial

 

Hate crime statistics

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

  • race or ethnicity
  • religion or beliefs
  • sexual orientation
  • disability
  • transgender identity
Frequency: annual

 

Ethnicity facts and figures: Crime, justice and the law

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

 

Women and the Criminal Justice System and Ethnicity and the Criminal Justice System

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)
Frequency: biennial

 

Judicial Diversity Statistics

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
Frequency: annual