Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: June 2022
Overview of trends in the use of out of court disposals, defendants prosecuted, offenders convicted, remand and sentencing decisions in England and Wales. The outcomes by offence tool was updated on 22nd December 2022 to reflect an issue found at Home Office offence code level. Please refer to the tool for the latest figures on a principal offence basis. The known issues in the tables have been updated to reflect this.
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This report presents key statistics on activity in the criminal justice system for England and Wales. It provides information up to the year ending June 2022 with accompanying commentary, analysis and presentation of longer-term trends.
Statistician’s comment
The figures published today, for year ending June 2022, demonstrate the continued recovery of the Criminal Justice System (CJS) since the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prosecutions and convictions have increased in the latest year, by 7% and 10%, respectively; however, they both remain lower than the year ending June 2019 (16% and 15%, respectively). The increase in the latest year is driven by summary offences (up 13% in the latest year), while prosecutions for indictable offences have decreased by 14%. Despite this, prosecutions for violence against the person and sexual offences have increased, by 21% and 17%, respectively, when compared to pre-COVID levels in the year ending June 2019.
The custody rate for indictable offences has risen to levels seen pre-pandemic at 33% in the latest year, after a fall in the year ending June 2021. The average custodial sentence length (ACSL) for indictable offences has continued to rise from 22.6 months in the year ending June 2021 to 25.7 months in the latest year. The largest increases are seen in sexual offences (from 54.3 months to 64.3 months in the latest year) and drug offences (from 39.0 months to 43.7 months in the latest year).
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Published 17 November 2022Last updated 22 December 2022 + show all updates
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The outcomes by offence tool was updated on 22nd December 2022 to reflect an issue found at Home Office offence code level. Please refer to the tool for the latest figures on a principal offence basis. The known issues in the tables have been updated to reflect this.
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