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  Regional Equality & Diversity Partnership  

Improvements to Ministry of Justice statistics - Consultation

Date: 9/12/2010
Summary: The Ministry of Justice's Chief Statistician is seeking feedback on proposals to make criminal justice statistics more transparent and user friendly.

The proposals are:

  • to resolve key conceptual issues raised by users when examining current Ministry of Justice statistical publications. These relate to consistency of definition of proven offending and proven re-offending; conviction rates; and measurement of the number of crimes where an outcome is reached
  • introduce a quarterly Criminal Statistics bulletin which will give an overview of trends in crime, out of court disposals, prosecutions, convictions and sentencing and will rationalise several existing publications; and
  • introduce a single coherent framework for measuring re-offending to replace the existing six different re-offending measures. This will include consolidating five separate publications on re-offending into a single comprehensive publication.

You are encouraged to use the online questionnaire to provide your response.

To get involved in the consultation, please click here to see the different ways of doing so.

Source: Ministry of Justice.


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