Ministry of Justice

Sentencing statistics annual report 2006

Annual National Statistics release 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.

Sentencing statistics 2006

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