The arrest statistics have remained stable over time, with 77% of arrests being made of white people, 10% black and 7% Asian in 2018. Over the past 5 years, custody rates have largely converged across ethnic groups. In the 2018/19 cohort, the reoffending rate for adults was highest for Black offenders at 30%, 29% for White offenders, 23% for Asian offenders and 19% for Other offenders. Criminal legal aid can be split into two categories, crime higher and crime lower[footnote 48]. This section is limited to these offences (referred to indictable) and to defendants aged 10 or over unless otherwise is explicitly stated. Between 2016 and 2020, the proportion of defendants remanded in custody at Crown Court has increased for all ethnic groups and the proportion remanded has remained highest for Chinese or Other, Black and Mixed defendants. , Pre-sentence reports (PSRs) are prepared by the Probation Service to provide information to the court about the offender and any circumstances surrounding the offence, to help decide on a suitable sentence. The ACSL was longest for Chinese or Other offenders at 14.7 months, followed by Black at 13.7 months, Mixed 13.2 months, Asian 12.1 months and White 10.6 months. If you have any feedback about the changes referred to in the introduction, or the report more generally, please contact the production team through the Justice Statistics Analytical Services division of the Ministry of Justice: Detail how users will be informed of the need for revisions. Figure 5.07: The average custodial sentence length in months for offenders sentenced to immediate custody for indictable offences at all courts, by ethnicity, 2016 to 2020, England and Wales. overall, men were 6 times as likely to . Arrests for Asian, Mixed and Other ethnicity children declined 24% to 25%. , The Rehabilitation Activity Requirement was introduced in 2014 under the Offender Rehabilitation Act and requires the offender to attend appointments and participate in activities selected by their responsible officer to support their rehabilitation and reduce reoffending. Location: England and Wales. This has remained relatively stable across the past 5 years and across ethnic groups. Since 2016, White defendants have had a consistently lower average custodial sentence length (ACSL) than other ethnic groups. Figure 5.05: Percentages of sentencing outcomes for all ethnicities, 2020, England and Wales. Across the past 5 years, White defendants have consistently had the highest guilty plea rate, at 79% in 2020, compared to Black defendants at 66%. The latest police recorded crime figures show that there were 47,119 offences involving a knife or sharp instrument recorded by the police in the year ending September 2020. 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. of the official crime statistics without question (i.e. Crimes involving multiple assailants, 43% of the assailants were Black, 38% were white, and 16% were Hispanic. Those where ethnicity is not known are not included in this commentary. Figure 6.01: Number and proportion of prisoners in England and Wales, 2016 to 2020, by ethnicity, Figure 6.02: Proportion of prisoners by ethnicity and age group, England and Wales, 30th June, 2020. , In 2018/19 Lancashire, Warwickshire and West Mercia stated that new IT systems and/or processes had led to changes in recording of detentions under section 136 of the Mental Health Act. Children from minority ethnic groups accounted for two thirds (66%) of arrests of children made in London in in 2020/21. , Further custody rate figures can be found here: Criminal justice system statistics quarterly: December 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk), The overall increase in ACSL may be due to a change in sentencing guidelines. , New methodology introduced in the 2015/16 cohort, used to measure proven reoffending, reduced twelve-monthly cohort to a three-monthly cohort and changed data source following probation services reforms. Figure 7.04: Average custodial sentence length (ACSL) for indictable offences, by age and ethnicity, England and Wales, 2016/20. Over the past five years, concordance rates[footnote 40] for immediate custodial sentences across all ethnic groups (excluding Missing/Not Stated) increased from 73% in 2016 to 90% in 2018, followed by a small decrease to 87% in 2020. , Equivalently, a Key Stage 4 academic year of 2013/14 and 2014/15; analysis of the attainment data focuses on those sentenced/cautioned that were at the end of KS4 in the 2013/14 and 2014/15 academic years. Black prisoners served the greatest proportion of their original sentence in custody. Over the last five years the proportion of children from ethnic minority groups sentenced to immediate custody has increased from 36% in 2016 to 43% in 2020. In this section, all analysis looks at those in the matched offender cohort who were eligible for Free School Meals (FSM) and/or had Special Education Needs (SEN), at any point during KS4. Because of this, the statistics presented in this report cannot present the typical experience of a person of a particular ethnic group, but it can highlight areas where further investigation or research may be warranted when looking at differences between ethnic groups. Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. , See Appendix I for further details of how detailed ethnicity categorisations are aggregated. over the 7 years covered, the percentage of White people who said they were victims of crime went down from 17% to 13%. This chapter looks at the interaction between ethnicity, sex, age, offending history, and reoffending throughout the Criminal Justice System[footnote 62]. Black suspects had the highest proportion of arrests that resulted from stop and search, accounting for 23% of total arrests, which has increased from 17% in 2016/17. . Where young offenders were received a custodial sentence of more than 12 months, Black and Asian children had a higher proportion of SEN, without statement, at 72% and 74% respectively, compared to White children, at 59%. In previous publications we have made comparisons to the population using 2011 Census data. Between 2017/18 and 2019/20, almost half (49%) of homicide victims aged 15 to 17 and 37% of victims aged 18 to 20 were from the Black ethnic group. This analysis compares the police identified ethnicity in the matched young offender cohort by total sentence/cautioned and those sentenced to custody (12 months or less and more than 12 months). As shown in Figure 5, the trend had increased since 2016 and stopped in 2020. Personal crime [footnote 11] against adults. The relationship between the homicide victim and principal suspect[footnote 19] varied across ethnic groups. , Some police forces were unable to supply complete data, please see footnotes in the BUSS open data tables. 102 Petty France. The largest increases . , See Appendix II for concordance in ethnicity reporting between these sources, More information on Relative Rate Indexes can be found in the technical guide. Ethnicity is recorded by either self-reporting or as identified by a police officer[footnote 2]. This publication is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/ethnicity-and-the-criminal-justice-system-statistics-2020/ethnicity-and-the-criminal-justice-system-2020. These are the main factors that have been contributing to crime in the contemporary world. Those where ethnicity was not known/recorded are not included in this commentary. Section 95 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 states that: The Secretary of State shall in each year publish such information as they consider expedient for the purpose of facilitating the performance of those engaged in the administration of justice to avoid discriminating against any persons on the ground of race or sex or any other improper ground. Overall, 81% of defendants who were remanded in custody at Crown Court for drug offences went on to receive an immediate custodial sentence. In 2020/21, 19% of arrests of Black suspects were for drug offences. , We were only able to match data on those children who are both in DfE and MoJ datasets so cannot provide analysis specifically for non-offenders with these characteristics. Of defendants prosecuted for sexual offences at Crown Court, Black defendants were more likely to be remanded in custody. Relative Rate Index (RRI) analysis for individuals dealt with at Crown Court in 2020 showed that defendants of Chinese or Other ethnic group were 28% more likely, Black defendants 23% more likely, defendants of Mixed ethnicities 19% more likely and Asian defendants 4% more likely to be remanded in custody than White defendants (Table 5.15). There were 46,265 offences in the 12 months to the end of March this year . According to the most recent data available, the crime rate in England and Wales in the year ending March 2022 was 46,077 offenses per 100,000 people, which is 4% higher than the year ending March 2020. Figure 7.10: Proportion of young offenders who finished Key Stage 4 in either 2013/14 or 2014/15 with Special Educational Needs, by ethnicity, in England (Source: Table 7.3 and Table CH2c)[footnote 77]. Individuals from the Black ethnic group also had the lowest proportion of suspended sentences, at 14% in 2020. Postal Point 10.31, Floor 10. 9% of White people aged 75 and over feared crime, compared with 27% of Asian people in the same age group. In the last 5 years, the numbers of children prosecuted for indictable offences has fallen for all ethnic groups, however, the proportion of children from Black, Mixed and Chinese or Other ethnic groups has increased collectively from 33% in 2016 to 39% in 2020. For all ethnicities, drugs were the most common reason for searches that resulted in an arrest after a stop and search, accounting for 57% of resultant arrests for White suspects, 59% for Black suspects, 69% for Asian suspects, 60% for Mixed suspects and 54% for Other suspects. In Britain official statistics on crime are produced annually. A significantly higher proportion of Black offenders with SEN, without statement, received a 12-month sentence or less (71%), compared to White offenders (60%). , Statistical significance between groups over the time series is represented with a *, This section reports on three years of combined data, 2017/18 to 2019/20. The ACSL for possession of weapon offences fell between 2016 and 2020 across all ethnic groups, except for the Mixed ethnic group . It is important to note when looking at more detailed offences that the Chinese or Other ethnic group accounted for only 2% of all prosecutions and convictions in 2020, therefore small changes in offending can lead to artificially high apparent increases/decreases in associated rates and percentages. The Authority considers whether the statistics meet the highest standards of Code compliance, including the value they add to public decisions and debate. , Detailed results of the survey can be found in table 6.06 in the tables document published alongside this report. When ethnicity is officer identified[footnote 3], it has four broad ethnicity categories: White, Black, Asian and Other[footnote 4]. Since this previous period, homicides, overall, increased by 17%. The number of knife crimes In England and Wales has risen to a new record high, says the Office for National Statistics. , See technical guide for more information on what this service covers. , Suspended refers to a pupil who is excluded from a school for a set period of time. Ethnicity facts and figures. , Persistent absence is when a pupil enrolments overall absence equates to 10 per cent or more of their possible sessions. They are awarded National Statistics status following an assessment by the Authoritys regulatory arm. Her Majestys Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS): Between 2017 and 2021, the proportion of White HMPPS staff (excluding National Probation Service) has decreased, from 92.6% to 90.3%, due to an increase in the proportion of staff from Black (1 pp), Asian and Mixed (0.7 pp) backgrounds[footnote 96]. Principal suspects in homicides with White victims were most likely to be a friend/acquaintance (29%). the officer found what they were searching for[footnote 30]. The proportion of Black young offenders eligible for FSM (72%) sentenced to more than 12 months in custody was significantly higher than the proportion for White young offenders (62%). , Data are self-declared from HR records, as at 31 March 2020; not including figures from HMPPS. , Ethnicity was recorded for 96.5% of offenders supervised on post-release licence in 2020. This was driven by the overrepresentation of Black individuals in the proportion of stop and searches; 17% of all stop and searches were of Black individuals. This trend is similar across all disposal types. As observed in Chapter 5, White prisoners have consistently received the shortest ACSL in comparison to other ethnic groups. The arrest rate in England and Wales for white people was nine arrests per 1,000 people in the reporting year 2021/22 while black people . In contrast, for White offenders those aged 35 to 39 had the highest proportion of offenders reoffending. Other young offenders had the lowest proportion recorded as persistently absent at 66%. We routinely publish data from the CSEW giving the prevalence of crime victimisation broken down according to the ethnicity of the victim. Ethnic minority groups were more likely to be remanded in custody at Crown Court in comparison to White defendants. , There is only ever one principal suspect per homicide victim. This trend has remained relatively stable over the past 5 years, with the Black ethnic group consistently having the highest proportion of defendants electing themselves to be heard at Crown Court. 477 485-8 515-38. Similar to trends in adults, children from the Asian ethnic group (3%) were significantly less likely to be victim of personal crime than those from the White ethnic group (7%). The proportion of staff from White backgrounds has decreased between 1 and 2.4 pp across all CJS organisations over the last 5 years, largely driven by increases in the proportion of staff from Asian and Mixed ethnic backgrounds. 1037 1037 0 1243-206. , 52,617 prisoners were released from determinate sentences in 2020, of whom 99.14% were of known ethnicity. Receipt of subsequent information which alters our understanding of previous periods (for example late recording on one of the administrative IT systems used operationally). This is the latest . This has been avoided where possible in order to provide the most recent data. Please send any comments to: datausers@justice.gov.uk. 735 754-19 947-212. Representation of ethnic groups at different stages of the criminal justice process: black people made up 2.8 per cent of the UK population but accounted for 14.1% of stops and searches and 8.8% of . The latest trends are mostly reflective of the impact of the pandemic on court processes and prioritisation rather than a continuation of the longer-term series. theories are . CJS_Statistics@justice.gov.uk. The ethnic profile of practitioners in the Criminal Justice System (CJS) has become slightly more diverse over the last 5 years. In previous years homicide data has been presented in relation to population data, by giving the number of deaths per million of the population of each ethnic group. Stop and search is an important detection tool for the police it allows officers to search individuals without an arrest taking place[footnote 27]. This overall trend is influenced by the higher number of stop and searches carried out in London, where stop and search arrests accounted for 26% of total arrests, which has increased from 17% in 2016/17. subcultural. This chapter explores police activity by ethnicity of persons stopped and searched and/or arrested. Include a detailed revisions policy within every release. In addition, the annual report from the Head of Profession to the National Statistician will: Provide information on how many revisions were required to our publications and the reasons for these. Where there are differences between groups that are statistically significant this will be stated. Figure 6.05: Requirements commenced under community orders and suspended sentence orders by ethnicity and requirement, England and Wales, 2020. 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