Criminal justice statistics

• 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, and
• Criminal histories of offenders (first time entrants, and previous convictions).

Frequency: quarterly

Main annual publication: covers calendar years and released in mid-May each year.

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, gender and ethnicity.

The Women and Race reports are compendium publications, each bringing together a wide range of statistics related to the criminal justice system, broken down by sex and by ethnicity. They include statistics on:

• Victims of crime,
• Police activity (stops and searches, and arrests),
• Out of court disposals,
• Remands,
• Prosecutions, convictions and sentencing,
• Guilty plea rates,
• Criminal histories,
• Offenders under supervision in the community (community orders and suspended sentence orders),
• Licence recalls,
• Offender learning
• Prison population,
• Assaults and self-harming in prison,
• Re-offending rates, and
• Practitioners (those working in the criminal justice system).

Frequency: weekly (every Friday)

Monthly publication: covers the last working Friday of the month and provides further breakdowns by prison establishment

• Prison population,
• Prison receptions,
• Prison releases,
• Offenders supervised in the community (those on 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 community orders and suspended sentence orders, and the reasons for the terminations,
• Licence recalls,
• Adjudications, and
• Restricted patients.

Frequency: quarterly

Main annual publication: covers calendar years and released in late April each year

• Court receipts, disposals and outstanding criminal cases,
• Average waiting times,
• Average hearing times,
• Appeals,
• Reasons for cracked or ineffective trials,
• Stages at which guilty pleas were entered at the Crown Court,
• The number of cases heard by each type of judge,
• Acquittals,
• Advocate and solicitor representation,
• Grounds for sending triable either-way cases to the Crown Court,
• Average number of days from offence to completion,
• Enforcement of financial penalties, and
• Jury summonsing and juror utilisation.

Frequency: quarterly

Main annual publication: covers financial years and released in late June each year

• Cautions and convictions,
• Sentencing outcomes at court, and
• Sentence lengths.

• Deaths in prison (including self-inflicted, homicide and natural causes),
• Self-harm in prison, and
• Assaults in prison (assaults on staff and on other prisoners).

Frequency: quarterly

Main annual publication: covers calendar years and released in late April each year

• Proportion of offenders who re-offend within a given period,
• Number of re-offences, and
• Types of offences and outcomes for offenders who re-offend.

• 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, and
• Civil legal aid.

Frequency: quarterly

Main annual publication: covers financial years and released in late June each year

• Judicial review cases processed by the High Court,
• Caseload at the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court,
• Applications for leave to appeal and results of appeals,
• The Judiciary – days sat by judge type, court type and region, and,
• The Magistracy – Justices of the Peace workforce by sex.

• Arrests for recorded crime (notifiable offences),
• Cautions,
• First time entrants,
• Proven offences,
• Sentencing outcomes,
• The use of remand,
• The youth custody population, and
• Behaviour management (Restrictive Physical Intervention, self-harm, assaults, single separation and use of force).

• Police recorded crime, and
• Victims of crime.

• Charged/summonsed,
• Out-of-court,
• Prosecution prevented or not in the public interest,
• Evidential difficulties,
• Investigation complete – no suspect identified, and
• Action taken by another body/agency.

• Arrests,
• Outcomes, and
• Stops and searches.

Frequency: quarterly

Main annual publication: covering the last financial year, published annually in mid-June

Frequency: annual, covering the previous financial year, released in mid-July each year

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.

• Types of judges by gender, age band, ethnicity, professional background, and
• Magistrates by gender, age band and ethnicity.