The latest annual National Statistics on sentencing, released by the Ministry of Justice and produced in accordance with arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.
The annual release presents long-term trends in sentencing in England and Wales. Both indictable and summary offences are addressed. Trends in custody, community sentences, fines and other disposals are presented with separate figures for magistrates' courts and the Crown Court. Gender and age based sub-groupings are presented as well as sentence length breakdowns and criminal histories.
A consultation on proposed changes to this publication and related statistics took place between 24 July and 22 August 2008.
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Sentencing statistics 2006, England and Wales [PDF 1.21mb, 200 pages]
Published on 13 December 2007
January to March 2008
Pivot tables
We have prepared a supplementary Excel file containing a more detailed 'pivot table' breakdown of a number of the key statistical fields featured in this publication. A pivot table is a data mining feature which allows the user to summarise and analyse large amounts of data.
This is not available as a download on the site because of its large file size. However, if you wish to order a free copy, please send an email with the subject 'sentencing pivot tables' to the email address below: