Justice in numbers

Headline measures

Crime figures from Crime Survey of England and Wales

Incidents of crime against households and adults estimated from the Crime Survey for England and Wales. Includes fraud and computer misuse.

Figures are survey estimates and subject to sampling variance. Therefore, figures in this chart are rounded to the nearest 100,000 incidents.

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Period	Crime figures from Crime Survey of England and Wales
Apr 2016 to Mar 2017	11.2 million
Apr 2017 to Mar 2018	10.7 million
Apr 2018 to Mar 2019	11.2 million
Apr 2019 to Mar 2020	10.2 million

Apr 2019 to Mar 2020 10.2 million

Sep 2022

In the 12 months to Sep 2022 there were 9.1 million incidents of crime estimated from the CSEW

Data source Crime in England and Wales (quarterly)

Published: 26 January 2023.

Police recorded crime in England and Wales

Police recorded crime statistics based on data from all 43 forces in England and Wales (including the British Transport Police). All offences including fraud and computer misuse.

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Period	Police recorded crime in England and Wales
Apr 2002 to Mar 2003	6.0 million
Apr 2003 to Mar 2004	6.0 million
Apr 2004 to Mar 2005	5.6 million
Apr 2005 to Mar 2006	5.6 million
Apr 2006 to Mar 2007	5.4 million
Apr 2007 to Mar 2008	5.0 million
Apr 2008 to Mar 2009	4.7 million
Apr 2009 to Mar 2010	4.3 million
Apr 2010 to Mar 2011	4.2 million
Apr 2011 to Mar 2012	4.4 million
Apr 2012 to Mar 2013	4.1 million
Apr 2013 to Mar 2014	4.0 million
Apr 2014 to Mar 2015	4.2 million
Apr 2015 to Mar 2016	4.5 million
Apr 2016 to Mar 2017	5.0 million
Apr 2017 to Mar 2018	5.5 million
Apr 2018 to Mar 2019	6.0 million
Apr 2019 to Mar 2020	6.1 million
Apr 2020 to Mar 2021	5.4 million
Apr 2021 to Mar 2022	6.3 million

Apr 2021 to Mar 2022 6.3 million

Sep 2022

In the 12 months to Sep 2022 there were 6.6 million incidents of crime recorded by police

Data source Crime in England and Wales (quarterly)

Published: 26 January 2023.

Estimated total cost of crime in England and Wales

The economic and social costs of crime estimates are important in helping to develop an understanding of the wider costs and benefits associated with changes in the number of crimes.

The linked report estimates the total costs of crime in England and Wales in 2015/16 to be approximately £50bn for crimes against individuals and £9bn for crimes against businesses. Violent crimes make up the largest proportion of the total costs of individual crime - almost three quarters - but only one third of the number of crimes.

Data source: The economic and social costs of crime

2015/16 £58.9bn

Prison population

Total number of prisoners at a specific point in time each year.

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Period	Prison population
30-Jun-2002	71,218
30-Jun-2003	73,657
30-Jun-2004	74,488
30-Jun-2005	76,190
30-Jun-2006	77,982
30-Jun-2007	79,734
30-Jun-2008	83,194
30-Jun-2009	83,391
30-Jun-2010	85,002
30-Jun-2011	85,374
30-Jun-2012	86,048
30-Jun-2013	83,842
30-Jun-2014	85,509
30-Jun-2015	86,193
30-Jun-2016	85,134
30-Jun-2017	85,863
30-Jun-2018	82,773
30-Jun-2019	82,710
30-Jun-2020	79,514
30-Jun-2021	78,324
30-Jun-2022	80,659

30-Jun-2022 80,659

31-Dec-2022

The prison population at 31 Dec 2022 was 81,806.

Data source Offender management statistics quarterly

Published: 26 January 2023. Next publication: 27 April 2023 9:30am.

Probation caseload

The statistics count each person once for each type of probation supervision being received on the date shown. In addition, each person is counted only once in each total or sub-total even if they were subject to several types of probation supervision at the year end (the examples above apply). Thus, the sum of the numbers receiving each type of court order probation supervision exceeds the number receiving court order probation supervision in total.

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Period	Probation caseload
30 Jun 2010	239,041
30 Jun 2011	236,154
30 Jun 2012	230,736
30 Jun 2013	219,548
30 Jun 2014	217,866
30 Jun 2015	228,844
30 Jun 2016	258,748
30 Jun 2017	262,347
30 Sep 2017	265,047
31 Dec 2017	264,649
31 Mar 2018	262,758
30 Jun 2018	261,196
30 Sep 2018	258,157
31 Dec 2018	256,010
31 Mar 2019	255,264
30 Jun 2019	254,165
30 Sep 2019	252,197
31 Dec 2019	247,759
31 Mar 2020	241,350
30 Jun 2020	224,587
30 Sep 2020	222,657
31 Dec 2020	223,973
31 Mar 2021	224,174
30 Jun 2021	230,578
30 Sep 2021	234,827
31 Dec 2021	238,500
31 Mar 2022	240,922
30 Jun 2022	243,127
30 Sep 2022	240,674

30 Sep 2022 240,674

Data source Offender management statistics quarterly

Published: 26 January 2023. Next publication: 27 April 2023 9:30am.

Proven reoffending rate

Proportion of all offenders who reoffend (%).

This latest offender cohort period overlaps with the third national lockdown imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a period of on-going recovery for the courts. As a result, volatility continues to be seen in the reoffending figures, with overall proven reoffending down from the same quarter last year but up from the previous quarter.

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Period	Proven reoffending rate
Apr - Jun 2009	30.7%
Jul - Sep 2009	30.9%
Oct - Dec 2009	31.0%
Jan - Mar 2010	31.3%
Apr - Jun 2010	31.3%
Jul - Sep 2010	31.5%
Oct - Dec 2010	31.7%
Jan - Mar 2011	31.8%
Apr - Jun 2011	31.8%
Jul - Sep 2011	31.6%
Oct - Dec 2011	30.9%
Jan - Mar 2012	30.8%
Apr - Jun 2012	30.8%
Jul - Sep 2012	30.8%
Oct - Dec 2012	30.8%
Jan - Mar 2013	31.3%
Apr - Jun 2013	31.7%
Jul - Sep 2013	31.5%
Oct - Dec 2013	30.7%
Jan - Mar 2014	30.6%
Apr - Jun 2014	30.5%
Jul - Sep 2014	30.3%
Oct - Dec 2014	29.8%
Jan - Mar 2015	29.4%
Apr - Jun 2015	29.5%
Jul - Sep 2015	29.2%
Oct - Dec 2015	29.6%
Jan - Mar 2016	29.6%
Apr - Jun 2016	29.4%
Jul - Sep 2016	29.5%
Oct - Dec 2016	29.4%
Jan - Mar 2017	29.2%
Apr - Jun 2017	29.8%
Jul - Sep 2017	29.3%
Oct - Dec 2017	28.8%
Jan - Mar 2018	28.7%
Apr - Jun 2018	28.8%
Jul - Sep 2018	28.6%
Oct - Dec 2018	28.1%
Jan - Mar 2019	26.7%
Apr - Jun 2019	26.3%
Jul - Sep 2019	26.0%
Oct - Dec 2019	25.2%
Jan - Mar 2020	24.7%
Apr - Jun 2020	29.0%
Jul - Sep 2020	23.5%
Oct - Dec 2020	23.1%
Jan - Mar 2021	24.3%

Jan - Mar 2021 24.3%

Data source Proven reoffending statistics (quarterly)

Published: 26 January 2023. Next publication: 27 April 2023 9:30am.

Crown court disposals

A count of the number of cases only when all the offences have been completed (following a validation process) in the reporting period. Disposals figures in this report may change if the case results are entered after the first collation of the data.

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Period	Crown court disposals
Jan - Dec 2014	129,009
Jan - Dec 2015	130,758
Jan - Dec 2016	123,222
Jan - Dec 2017	115,705
Jan - Dec 2018	105,760
Jan - Dec 2019	99,630
Jan - Dec 2020	78,199
Jan - Dec 2021	95,666

Jan - Dec 2021 95,666

Data source Criminal court statistics quarterly

Published: 19 January 2023. Next publication: 30 March 2023 9:30am.

Crown court outstanding

A count of all cases where one or more offence remains incomplete. The data is a snapshot based on outstanding cases on the final day of the reporting period. This is a count of live cases on the system and is not a calculation based on receipts and disposals. Transferred cases may be double counted for a period while they show in both sending and receiving courts; offences subsequently entered in error may change the categorisation of the case.

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Period	Crown court outstanding
31 Dec 2014	56,148
31 Dec 2015	51,907
31 Dec 2016	43,380
31 Dec 2017	39,253
31 Dec 2018	33,361
31 Dec 2019	38,371
31 Dec 2020	57,196
31 Dec 2021	58,719

31 Dec 2021 58,719

Data source Criminal court statistics quarterly

Published: 19 January 2023. Next publication: 30 March 2023 9:30am.

Magistrates' courts disposals

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Period	Magistrates' courts disposals
Jan - Dec 2012	1,179,639
Jan - Dec 2013	1,556,261
Jan - Dec 2014	1,570,660
Jan - Dec 2015	1,594,051
Jan - Dec 2016	1,566,357
Jan - Dec 2017	1,509,022
Jan - Dec 2018	1,456,735
Jan - Dec 2019	1,441,903
Jan - Dec 2020	1,040,944
Jan - Dec 2021	1,170,253

Jan - Dec 2021 1,170,253

Data source Criminal court statistics quarterly

Published: 19 January 2023. Next publication: 30 March 2023 9:30am.

Civil courts - total judgments

Total number of judgments in the county courts. Some civil cases are resolved via mediation or settled out of court and don't proceed to a judgement.

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Period	Civil courts - total judgments
Jan - Dec 2009	982,464
Jan - Dec 2010	794,311
Jan - Dec 2011	748,586
Jan - Dec 2012	663,457
Jan - Dec 2013	667,168
Jan - Dec 2014	831,541
Jan - Dec 2015	867,665
Jan - Dec 2016	1,055,035
Jan - Dec 2017	1,284,364
Jan - Dec 2018	1,291,142
Jan - Dec 2019	1,323,750
Jan - Dec 2020	727,438
Jan - Dec 2021	980,474
Jan - Dec 2022	900,606

Jan - Dec 2022 900,606

Data source Civil justice statistics (quarterly)

Published: 2 March 2023. Next publication: 01 June 2023 9:30am.

Family court - total cases disposed

Total cases disposed at family court.

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Period	Family court - total cases disposed
Jan 2011 to Dec 2011	233,824
Jan 2012 to Dec 2012	235,054
Jan 2013 to Dec 2013	240,968
Jan 2014 to Dec 2014	248,930
Jan 2015 to Dec 2015	221,668
Jan 2016 to Dec 2016	229,028
Jan 2017 to Dec 2017	227,067
Jan 2018 to Dec 2018	214,593
Jan 2019 to Dec 2019	234,469
Jan 2020 to Dec 2020	226,097
Jan 2021 to Dec 2021	249,985

Jan 2021 to Dec 2021 249,985

Data source Family court statistics quarterly

Published: 15 December 2022. Next publication: 30 March 2023 9:30am.

Tribunals disposals - overall

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Period	Tribunals disposals - overall
Apr 2007 - Mar 2008	550,148
Apr 2008 - Mar 2009	568,671
Apr 2009 - Mar 2010	649,920
Apr 2010 - Mar 2011	726,939
Apr 2011 - Mar 2012	748,820
Apr 2012 - Mar 2013	749,283
Apr 2013 - Mar 2014	878,007
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015	649,068
Apr 2015 - Mar 2016	372,926
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017	394,102
Apr 2017 - Mar 2018	407,638
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019	400,816
Apr 2019 - Mar 2020	378,629
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021	265,628

Apr 2020 - Mar 2021 265,628

Data source Tribunals statistics quarterly

Published: 9 March 2023. Next publication: 08 June 2023 9:30am.