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Crimes of Violence: Prosecutions

Answer

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not have a formal definition for ‘violent crime’, but it does hold management information on its Case Management System showing the number of defendants allocated the Principal Offence Categories of either Homicide or Offences Against the Person at completion of prosecution. The Principal Offence Category indicates the most serious offence with which a defendant is charged.

The tables below show the number of completed prosecutions and convictions for Homicide and Offences Against the Person from the start of January 2005 to the end of September 2015. The data provided in the tables is in financial quarters.

‘Total completed prosecutions’ refer to the conclusion of a prosecution case against a defendant such as conviction after trial, guilty plea, acquittal, or the prosecution against the defendant being dropped. ‘Convictions’ refer to convictions after trial and guilty pleas.

Homicide

Quarter	04/05-Q4	05/06-Q1	05/06-Q2	05/06-Q3	05/06-Q4	06/07-Q1	06/07-Q2	06/07-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	338	267	337	335	414	274	305	317
Convictions	253	212	255	283	317	217	239	261

Quarter	06/07-Q4	07/08-Q1	07/08-Q2	07/08-Q3	07/08-Q4	08/09-Q1	08/09-Q2	08/09-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	325	296	328	347	301	344	313	378
Convictions	249	234	269	266	234	288	246	329

Quarter	08/09-Q4	09/10-Q1	09/10-Q2	09/10-Q3	09/10-Q4	10/11-Q1	10/11-Q2	10/11-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	358	266	292	312	305	241	251	276
Convictions	289	209	246	255	236	204	205	224

Quarter	10/11-Q4	11/12-Q1	11/12-Q2	11/12-Q3	11/12-Q4	12/13-Q1	12/13-Q2	12/13-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	269	208	225	245	244	253	289	283
Convictions	212	167	187	207	205	204	223	222

Quarter	12/13-Q4	13/14-Q1	13/14-Q2	13/14-Q3	13/14-Q4	14/15-Q1	14/15-Q2
Total completed prosecutions	201	259	254	236	226	263	220
Convictions	166	206	208	195	174	214	172

Quarter	14/15-Q3	14/15-Q4	15/16-Q1	15/16-Q2
Total completed prosecutions	224	195	268	259
Convictions	180	161	220	196

Offences against the person

Quarter	04/05-Q4	05/06-Q1	05/06-Q2	05/06-Q3	05/06-Q4	06/07-Q1	06/07-Q2	06/07-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	33,884	34,848	37,757	35,385	39,213	35,029	38,588	35,224
Convictions	22,991	23,934	25,528	24,160	26,970	24,624	27,765	25,570

Quarter	06/07-Q4	07/08-Q1	07/08-Q2	07/08-Q3	07/08-Q4	08/09-Q1	08/09-Q2	08/09-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	39,017	36,032	39,795	36,899	37,650	35,648	36,579	34,335
Convictions	28,536	26,764	29,879	27,818	28,742	27,585	28,264	26,480

Quarter	08/09-Q4	09/10-Q1	09/10-Q2	09/10-Q3	09/10-Q4	10/11-Q1	10/11-Q2	10/11-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	35,983	34,530	37,246	35,301	37,877	36,759	39,600	37,161
Convictions	27,635	26,383	28,259	26,664	28,799	27,843	29,390	27,771

Quarter	10/11-Q4	11/12-Q1	11/12-Q2	11/12-Q3	11/12-Q4	12/13-Q1	12/13-Q2	12/13-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	38,226	35,262	37,614	35,124	37,437	32,227	34,349	32,342
Convictions	28,556	26,742	28,283	26,205	28,245	24,482	25,744	24,205

Quarter	12/13-Q4	13/14-Q1	13/14-Q2	13/14-Q3	13/14-Q4	14/15-Q1	14/15-Q2
Total completed prosecutions	32,634	31,715	33,797	32,525	35,004	32,762	36,737
Convictions	24,226	23,889	25,355	24,432	26,049	24,427	27,373

Quarter	14/15-Q3	14/15-Q4	15/16-Q1	15/16-Q2
Total completed prosecutions	36,482	38,986	38,984	41,282
Convictions	27,275	29,330	29,339	31,239

Secondary information

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26924

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2023-24

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