Time Method View help for Time Method This was driven by a decrease in prevalence of indecent exposure and unwanted touching, and rape excluding attempts. The number of arrests has remained stable over the last 3 years following a previously downward trend. Most of this decrease is accounted for by a reduction in the number of females prosecuted for theft offences (10,500 fewer in 2019 than in 2015), particularly theft from shops, for which there were 8,200 fewer prosecutions. Child Custody Statistics by Gender Who is most likely to be a custodial parent? Some 18 year olds remain in the secure estate for children and young people if they only have a short period of their sentence to serve, to avoid disrupting their regimes. Publish a time-series of revisions due to errors in our statistical processes and procedures so we can monitor the quality of our outputs. Over the last 5 years, there have been increases in female representation across almost all CJS organisations and in the proportion of senior staff. The most recent annual reoffending data available is for the 2017/18 (i.e. Figure 7.10: Proportion of young offenders who finished Key Stage 4 in either 2013/14 or 2014/15 with Special Educational Needs without a statement, by gender and disposal category (Source: Table 7.3). Figure 7.11: Proportion of young offenders who finished Key Stage 4 in either 2013/14 or 2014/15 with a record of persistent absence, by gender and disposal category (Source: Table 7.4). , A first reception is a measure which counts a prisoners first movement into custody following a court hearing for a particular set of offences committed. Youth custody data for April 2018 published. These data comes from the Child Support Supplement to the April 2018 Current Population Survey (CPS). The largest difference in proportions between genders for fixed period exclusion was seen for those who were dealt with by a suspended sentence. However, this was lower than the proportion of pupils achieving this attainment level for the overall pupil population (including both offenders and non-offenders) in 2013/14[footnote 99] and 2014/15[footnote 100] (99% for young females and 98% for young males). This is the latest biennial compendium of Statistics on Women and the Criminal Justice System and follows its sister publication Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System published last year. Youth custody data for October 2017 published. , Please note that the spacing of the time period displayed does not align with the actual time scale, for example the time between sentenced to custody for 0-1 month is smaller than 6 to 12 months. Of all female defendants prosecuted at court, 55% were prosecuted for summary non-motoring offences compared to 29% of male defendants in the latest year. The purpose of this study was to further our understanding of what child custody evaluators and , Excluding companies and those of unknown sex, which accounted for 10% of the total number of defendants in 2019. These include: National liaison and diversion services data from NHS England, Survey data from Her Majestys Inspectorate of Prisons Annual Report, (New) Understanding Educational Background of Offenders (MoJ/ DfE data share). Please send any comments to: datausers@justice.gov.uk. This offence accounted for 30% of all female convictions, compared to 4% of male convictions. The report includes demographic and income data about custodial parents, and details child support income for custodial parents living below the poverty level. , Further information regarding the impacts on published estimates of the ongoing data reforms seen in the criminal courts can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2020/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2020, Plea data is sourced from the Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly: December 2019 bulletin and excludes companies, defendants with unknown sex and unknown plea. , Where there are multiple suspects in a homicide case, they are categorised in the Homicide Index as either the principal or a secondary suspect. A 2.6 pp increase over the last five years brought female representation among in-post police officers up to 31% in 2019. , Figures refers only to those with known ethnicity; for this group, ethnicity coverage was 72% in 2019. The proportion of young females who had been permanently excluded and sentenced to a fine was 9%, compared to 15% for young males, a 6 percentage point difference. , From April 2017, the upper age limit for the self-completion module was increased to ask all respondents aged 16 to 74. In 2019, 1.29 million defendants[footnote 48] were directed to appear at magistrates courts (including those who failed to appear). In 2019, females made up 17% of offenders issued community orders and 14% of suspended sentence orders (with requirements). The total prison population as at 30 June 2019[footnote 60] was 82,700. The conviction ratio has been consistently higher for female offenders over the last 5 years, and was 88% in 2019, compared to 87% for males. As at 30 June 2019, 5% of the prison population were female, this proportion has remained stable for the last 5 years. Overall, over half of young offenders sentenced or cautioned in the matched cohort had SEN without a statement, 61% for young females and 60% for young males. News stories, speeches, letters and notices, Reports, analysis and official statistics, Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports. The Ministry of Justice aims to avoid the need for revisions to publications unless they are absolutely necessary and put systems and processes in place to minimise the number of revisions. , These are sourced from linked magistrates courts and Crown Court administrative data systems with a match rate of around 90%. The defendant can be directed to appear in court or remanded on bail or custody. The statistics reported in this bulletin are primarily National Statistics[footnote 1], as drawn from either other published National Statistics bulletins or the data underpinning them. Youth custody report for February 2015 published. This chapter reports on the trends in the composition of staff and practitioners throughout the criminal justice system (CJS) by sex. The custody rate ranged between 20% and 23% across all female ethnic groups. When men get awarded child support, they average 17% less than women. Mental health needs were higher for young females, the majority of which were for emotional and behavioural issues, affecting 31% of females and 18% of males. , Questions on the offence category Causing sexual activity without consent were removed from the CSEW 2019/20, therefore the total category of any sexual assault (including attempts) no longer includes this category. This difference is likely to be linked to the greater seriousness of offences typically dealt with at the Crown Court. , The analysis in this chapter excludes defendants where age or sex is unknown unless stated otherwise. The greater tendency for female first time offenders to be cautioned or convicted for theft aligns with trends for offenders more generally, as discussed in Chapter 4: Police Activity. Theft from shops was the most common indictable offence for which 34% of females and 14% of males were convicted in 2019. The overall ACSL (where sex is known) has been increasing over the last 5 years, from 16.3 months in 2015 to 19.0 months in 2019. , Bespoke analysis can be found in the Chapter 3: Victims Tables published alongside this report. Email: CJS_Statistics@justice.gov.uk, Alternative formats are available on request from ESD@justice.gov.uk, Available at https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/code-of-practice/, Fieldwork for the year to March 2020 was suspended two weeks early on Wednesday the 18th March 2020, just prior to the lockdown restrictions being announced by the Government on the 23rd March 2020. The indictable offences for which the highest numbers of female offenders were sentenced in 2019 were: Theft from shops (9600 were sentenced, 3% of all sentences given to female offenders in 2019); Assault of an emergency worker (2700 sentenced); Fraud by false representation: cheque, plastic card and online bank accounts (940 sentenced); Possession of a Class A drug (870 sentenced); and. Figure 5.04: Proportion of the defendants brought to magistrates court by prosecuting authority and sex, 2019. In 2019/20, 3.9% of males were victim to personal. Females accounted for 15% of arrests, unchanged since 2015/16. Offenders with 1 to 14 previous cautions or convictions. Likewise, only slight changes have been seen since 2015 regarding female representation in CPS staff (65% in 2015; 66% in 2019). Overall, of the young offenders sentenced/cautioned, a smaller proportion of young males (80%) had a record of persistent absence compared to young females (85%). Of all female offenders cautioned or convicted in 2019, 35% were first time offenders, compared to 22% for males. Since 2015, the ACSL for indictable offences has risen for both male and female offenders from all ethnic groups[footnote 76]. , Offenders whose sex was unknown were excluded from all analyses in this section, which might lead to very small inconsistencies with other published statistics on offenders. As at June 2019, the female prison population was 3,800 and has decreased 3% over the last 5 years, compared to 78,900 for the male prison population (decreasing 4% over the same time period). Child custody A campaign to change the law was led by Caroline Norton, whose own marriage to a violent husband had failed. , Breakdown by offence type is not available in the CSEW 2019/20 data. 4% of crime higher legal aid clients had an unstated sex. Crime lower covers work carried out by legal aid providers regarding police station advice, magistrates court work and prison law. In 2017, the aggregate amount of child support that was expected for receipt was $30 billion; 62% of that amount was actually received, averaging $3,431 per custodial parent. The female majority in Magistrates Court staff has continued to increase, also, recorded at 56% in 2020. , Data is from CSEW 2019 annual supplementary tables. The largest increase in female representation was seen in court judges by 5 percentage points, to 32%. Statistics on PSRs are published alongside Offender Management Statistics. In comparison, 21,500 males were remanded in custody at the Crown Court for indictable offences: 72% of these were White, 14% were Black, 7% were Asian, 4% were Mixed and 2% were Chinese and Other. This difference is driven by female offenders receiving shorter average custodial lengths than males. The HMIP Annual Report 2019/20 identifies differences in reported prison experiences between male and female prisoners[footnote 65]. Figure 5.03: Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts, by offence type and sex, 2015 to 2019. Other defendants such as companies and public bodies are also excluded. , This section looks at persons only and excludes those where sex is not stated. Truancy females made up 71% of the 19,600 convictions in 2019, down 2 pp from 2015. , This is not including the 96 victims of the Hillsborough disaster in 2016/17, where 89 were male and 7, female. , In this chapter, children refers to those aged 10 to 15 unless stated otherwise. , In 2019/20, the CPS moved from annual reporting, in the Violence Against Women and Girls annual report, to quarterly data. Drunk and disorderly accounted for the highest proportion of PNDs issued for both males and females in 2019. Fines accounted for 34% of females sentenced in 2019 and 33% received a community sentence, compared with 44% and 30% for males. This is particularly true in relation to the most serious offence types and sentences, though patterns by sex vary between individual offences. , Where there were multiple offences on the same occasion, only the primary offence as recorded on the Police National Computer (PNC) would be counted. Males maintain higher risk of personal crime than females. Youth custody report for November 2014 published. Of those sentenced, a consistently higher proportion of female offenders were fined and had a lower average fine than male offenders over the last 5 years. Females had a higher cautioning rate for indictable offences (20%) and a lower rate for summary offences (4%) compared to males (14% and 9% respectively) in 2019. , This section excludes those where sex is not stated and other defendants such as companies and public bodies in total these accounted for 10% of all defendants in 2019. Prison population figures are from the Offender Management Statistics quarterly bulletin and are averaged across 12 months. Youth custody data for June 2016 published. It is important to note that the number of female children receiving custodial sentences was lower than males (approximately 50 females compared to 1,100 males). , Analysis of attainment data focuses on those sentenced/cautioned that were at the end of KS4 in the 2013/14 and 2014/15 academic years. , Court outcomes figures split by sex and ethnicity is limited to indictable offences where is a robust proportion with known ethnicity. , A release is defined as a release from prison where the prisoner has finished serving the custodial term of their sentence and excludes unsentenced prisoners on remand. This is largely due to the introduction of the offence of assaulting an emergency worker in 2018, for which 3,300 females were prosecuted in 2019. , A SEN statement is a document which sets out a childs SEN and any additional help that the child should receive. Figure 3.02: Percentage of adults who were victims of violent crime, by age group, year ending March 2019. Therefore, to ensure comparability across year, these forces have been excluded from the calculations for the year on year change. The number of TVLEO prosecutions has decreased for both female (down 30%) and male (down 37%) defendants since 2015, although the decrease between 2018 and 2019 was negligible compared to previous years. If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a This chapter explores the activity of the police, by the sex of the suspect or offender they deal with. Police station advice alone accounts for 71% of the workload for both sexes in 2019, increasing from around 60% since 2012. , Bespoke analysis from the 2019-20 Her Majestys Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) annual report can be found in the chapter tables, published alongside this report. Males were serving longer custodial sentence length. This includes those aged under 18 and 18 year olds. , Domestic abuse is made up of partner or family non-physical abuse, threats, force, sexual assault or stalking. Five-year time series refers to 2014/15 to 2018/19. Data are presented in terms of calendar and financial years (usually 2019 or 2019/20), reflecting the reporting cycles and data collection of the agencies contributing information for this publication. A higher proportion of female defendants were not remanded by police, which may be due in part to the different types of offences for which females and males are prosecuted and hence the risk they are perceived as representing. The representation of females among HMPPS staff (excluding NPS)[footnote 122] has increased over the last five years, from 39% to 42%. Receipt of subsequent information which alters our understanding of previous periods (for example late recording on one of the administrative IT systems used operationally). Offenders with 1 to 14 previous cautions or convictions accounted for 51% of all offenders in 2019, 86% were male, compared to 14% who were female. Of the females remanded in custody at the Crown Court for indictable offences in 2019, 80% were White, 10% were Black, 4% were Asian, 5% were Mixed and 2% were Chinese and Other. In the same period, 16% of court reports prepared were for females, a proportion which has remained consistent in the last five years. This is true for all stages of timeliness for drug offences. When a suspect is formally charged, they are brought before a magistrates court (as a defendant) as soon as possible. All official statistics should comply with all aspects of the Code of Practice for Statistics. 18% of single mothers have a college degree or higher 27% of single fathers are between the ages of 15 & 29 29% of single fathers are African American 28% of single mothers are African American 36% of single fathers live at or below the poverty line 43% of single mothers live at or below the poverty line Violent crime was most prevalent in the 16-24 age group (Figure 3.02). All results relate to England and Wales unless explicitly stated otherwise. To avoid inconsistency in the length of their offending histories, for those with an academic year of 2008/09 their offending data has been considered up to 31 August 2016 and for those with an academic year of 2009/10 it has been considered up to 31 August 2017. A BBC report suggested that in 2011 men accounted for just 8% of the UK's single parents. If we become concerned about whether these statistics are still meeting the appropriate standards, we will discuss any concerns with the Authority promptly. Youth custody report: September 2017 published. There are few comparisons to the population as a whole, but we have considered this to be 51% female, as based on Mid-year Population Estimates from the Office for National Statistics. Documents fulfilling this requirement have been published since 1992, in the form of statistical information. In 2019, 1.07 million offenders were sentenced, of which 27% were female, a proportion which has remained stable over the last 5 years. Figure 4.01: Number of arrests, by age group and sex, 2015/16 to 2019/20. This was considerably lower than the proportion of pupils achieving this attainment level for the overall pupil population (including both offenders and non-offenders) in 2013/14[footnote 94] (62% for young females and 52% for young males) and 2014/15[footnote 95] (62% for young females and 53% for young males). Females reported that it was harder for family and friend to visit them in prison (this may be due to there being fewer female prisons so the average distance from home is greater). In homicides where the principal suspect was known to the victim, 67% of cases with female victims suspected the partner/ex-partner[footnote 21], whereas when the victim was male, only 9% of cases suspected the partner/ex-partner. Britain has the highest proportion of fatherless families (2 million) of any major European country. The proportion of all young offenders in the matched cohort that achieved 5 or more GCSEs (or equivalents) graded A* to C, including English and Maths, was slightly higher for the young female group, at 12%, compared to 10% for young males. Figure 5.12: Proportion of offenders sentenced to immediate custody, by custodial sentence length and sex, 2019[footnote 58]. There was no significant difference in the prevalence of sexual assault in the last year among men aged 16-74 for 2019/20 (0.7%) compared to 2018/19. 41% of females received a suspended sentence for this offence, compared with 20% of males. Over the last 5 years, the proportion of prosecutions for summary non-motoring offences has been decreasing for both male and female defendants, offset by increases in both indictable and summary motoring offences. In June 2019, the number of children and young people up to 18 years old in secure estates[footnote 61] was 885, of which 3% were female. Reference will usually be made to children by which we refer to individuals aged 10 to 17 years of age[footnote 80][footnote 81]. Females of all age groups were more likely to experience domestic abuse than males. Of the sentenced prison population, sentences can be divided into two broad groups: determinate sentences which are for a fixed period, and indeterminate sentences (these include life sentences and indeterminate sentences for public protection IPPs). Court judges have seen similar increases to 26% female staff, largely driven by High Court Judge appointments. The HMPPS Offender Equalities report 2019/20 (released on the same day as this report) also includes information on: Mother and Baby units, Sexual Orientation in the Prison Population, Accredited Programmes, Incentives and Earned Privileges and Electronic Monitoring.
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