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Crime

Answer

The number of persons proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for violent and non-violent offences in England and Wales, broken down by age group for the years 2002 to 2006 is shown in the following table.Charging data are not held by the Ministry of Justice. Information on numbers proceeded against has been provided in lieu of charging data.The court proceedings database held by the Ministry of Justice holds information on convictions and prosecutions data for persons aged under 10 who are under the age of liability.These data are on the principal offence basis: the figures given in the table on court proceedings relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offence for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences, the offence selected is the one for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.Court proceedings data for 2007 will be available in the autumn of 2008.The available information held by the Ministry of Justice on number of persons arrested is given in the other table from 2001-02 to 2005-06 (latest available). There is no link from these centrally reported data to any subsequent outcome.

Number of persons proceeded against at magistrates courts, and found guilty at all courts for offences relating to violent, and non-violent offences in England and Wales, by age group, 2002 to 2006¹, ², ³
	Proceeded against	Found guilty
Age group	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
10-17
Violent offences	20,218	18,618	18,217	18,123	18,457	10,235	9,668	10,457	11,061	11,713
Non-violent offences	126,350	122,172	118,445	113,608	107,732	84,311	82,873	85,733	85,096	81,976
18-20
Violent offences	16,161	15,798	14,604	14,433	14,653	8,429	8,129	8,520	8,821	9,449
Non-violent offences	204,813	205,968	191,682	174,739	165,256	151,361	154,359	148,231	137,806	133,612
21 and over
Violent offences	66,813	68,049	60,914	57,853	53,953	31,139	31,897	32,438	32,938	33,708
Non-violent offences	1,477,315	1,556,205	1,603,373	1,502,837	1,408,127	1,126,727	1,194,295	1,252,609	1,199,530	1,143,315
All ages
Violent offences	103,192	102,465	93,735	90,409	87,063	49,803	49,694	51,415	52,820	54,870
Non-violent offences	1,808,478	1,884,345	1,913,500	1,791,184	1,681,115	1,362,399	1,431,527	1,486,573	1,422,432	1,358,903
¹ Data are on the principal offence basis.
² Data includes the following offence types:
Violent offences:
Violence against the person
Sexual Offences
Robbery
Non-violent offences:
Burglary
Theft and handling stolen goods
Fraud and forgery
Criminal damage
Drug offences
Other indictable offences
Indictable motoring offences
Summary offences (excluding motoring)
Summary motoring offences.
³ Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts, other agencies and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.
Sources:
Court proceedings data held by CJEAU
Office for Criminal Justice Reform
Ministry of Justice

Number of persons arrested for recorded crime (notifiable offences) by age group and type of offence¹, 2001-02 to 2005-06, England and Wales
Rounded
Notifiable offence group	Aged under 10	Aged 10-17	Aged 18-20	Aged 21 and over	Age unknown	All ages
2001-02
Violent offences	100	70,500	47,900	201,400	900	320,500
Other offences	400	243,800	160,300	544,200	2,500	951,400
Total	500	314,200	208,100	745,700	3,400	1,271,900
2002-03
Violent offences	100	70,600	50,800	226,600	900	348,700
Other offences	300	229,000	156,300	576,500	2,200	964,400
Total	500	299,500	207,000	803,200	2,900	1,313,100
2003-04
Violent offences	100	83,000	56,900	256,000	900	396,800
Other offences	500	230,300	145,200	555,600	1,900	933,800
Total	700	313,200	202,200	811,700	2,700	1,330,400
2004-05²
Violent offences	200	96,700	66,800	294,000	900	458,400
Other offences	500	236,100	137,000	519,500	1,900	894,900
Total	800	332,800	203,700	813,400	2,800	1,353,400
2005-06
Violent offences	200	108,500	74,500	331,800	800	515,800
Other offences	500	239,900	140,300	531,100	2,000	914,000
Total	800	348,500	214,700	863,100	2,700	1,429,800
¹ Violent offences includes the offence categories of: violence against the person; sexual offences; robbery offences. Other offences includes the offence categories of: burglary; theft and handling stolen goods; fraud and forgery; criminal damage; drug offences; other offences.
² Figures updated since publication of 2004-05 bulletin.
Note:
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when these data are used.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

478 c331-4W;478 c333-6W; 212374

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Crime Young people

Link

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