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.
Following the release of Sentencing Statistics 2007 a number of minor discrepancies were noticed in the tables which gave rise to some conflicting totals. These have been corrected and a revised edition was published on 26 June 2009. The changes are small and do not affect any of the conclusions drawn from the original release. The re-release reflects the changes noticed and ensures consistency across all of our published figures.
The bulletin is produced and handled by the ministry's analytical professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons:
Ministry of Justice: chief, senior and press officers from the newsdesk.
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