Women and the criminal justice system statistics 2015
Statistics from across the Criminal Justice System, to provide a combined perspective on the typical experiences of females and males in England and Wales, 2015.
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This publication compiles statistics from data sources across the Criminal Justice System (CJS), to provide a combined perspective on the typical experiences of women who come into contact with it. It considers how these experiences have changed over time and how they contrast to the typical experiences of men.
In general, females appear to have been substantially under-represented as offenders throughout the CJS compared with males. This is particularly true in relation to the most serious offence types and sentences, though patterns by sex vary between individual offences.
Females were also typically underrepresented among practitioners in the CJS and among victims of violent crime, although they were more likely than males to have been a victim of intimate violence or child abuse. Trends over time for each sex often mirror overall trends, though this is not always the case.
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Home Office
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The Office of the Lord Chief Justice
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Crown Prosecution Service
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NHS England
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Attorney General’s Office
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Cabinet Office
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Office for National Statistics
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