Ministry of Justice · ODS · quarterly · England and Wales
Criminal justice statistics quarterly: overview tables
Published quarterly; the overview tables present rolling 12-month periods ending March, so each edition adds one year-ending point and revises the earlier ones. Prosecutions, convictions and sentencing are on a principal-offence basis from the Court Proceedings Database.
- Official page
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-justice-statistics
- Authority
- First-party official statistics · OGL-UK-3.0
- Latest release
- Year ending March 2026, published 30 July 2026
- Next expected
- October 2026 (estimated)
- Extractor
- ingest/ukdata/extractors/moj_cjs_quarterly.py
Metrics read from this publication
| Metric | Sheet · table | Row label | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prosecutions | Q3_2 · Table Q3.2 | All offence types total | defendants |
| Convictions | Q3_3 · Table Q3.3 | All offence types total | offenders |
| Immediate custodial sentences | Q5_2a · Table Q5.2a | All offence types total | offenders |
| Custody rate | Q5_2b · Table Q5.2b | All offence types total | percent |
| Average custodial sentence length (indictable offences) | Q5_2c · Table Q5.2c | Indictable offences total | months |
| Prosecutions by offence groupbreakdown by offence group | Q3_2 · Table Q3.2 | All offence types total | defendants |
| Average custodial sentence length by offence groupbreakdown by offence group | Q5_2c · Table Q5.2c | Indictable offences total | months |
Releases ingested
| Published | Release | Observations | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 July 2026 | Year ending March 2026 | 330 | overview-tables-March-2026.ods sha256 60c19d2d5ff2446d… |
API: prosecutions_total · convictions_total · custodial_sentences_total · custody_rate · average_custodial_sentence_length_months