Criminal conviction and sentencing statistics include tables about convictions, prosecutions, and charges by offence type, sentence type, and most serious offence. This data is provided to us by the Ministry of Justice.
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Definitions and metadata
Criminal conviction and sentencing statistics - DataInfo+ gives the general methodology used to produce these statistics, and related metadata.
Criminal conviction and sentencing statistics concepts - DataInfo+ gives definitions used in these statistics.
More information
Adults convicted and sentenced - find Ministry of Justice infographics and summaries of the data in the criminal conviction and sentencing tables.
Next release
Criminal conviction and sentencing statistics: 2024 calendar year will be released on 18 March 2025.
