Centre for Crime and Justice

The type and nature of crime is constantly evolving. We need to keep up to date with latest trends and adapt both our data collection and presentation of statistics to meet user needs and provide the best overview of crime from all available sources.

What have we done?

In the last year we have:

• conducted a data quality review which showed that the quality of Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) data for the year ending (YE) March 2023 was broadly similar to CSEW data for YE March 2020, when they were last accredited official statistics

• continued to publish our regular bulletins and a range of focused articles on crime

• continued to improve our measurement of crime, including data collection and articles related to violence against women and girls and starting evaluation of the new domestic abuse questions, shown in our research update from November 2023

• continued the transformation of the CSEW and crimes against children statistics, including completing a pilot for collecting children's crime survey data online, shown in our Transforming children's crime statistics article and exploring the exploring the feasibility of a survey measuring child abuse in the UK

Upcoming priorities

We will continue improving crime statistics over the next 12 months. This includes improving how we measure and present crime statistics as well as survey transformation activities. For further information, see Improving Crime Statistics for England and Wales -- progress update July 2024.

Engaging with crime and justice statistics users

It is important for us to listen and engage with our stakeholders so that we can provide crime and justice statistics that are useful and relevant. As part of this, our next annual crime and justice statistics forum will take place in Autumn 2024. The forum provided users of crime and justice data an opportunity to engage with experts, share insights and discuss the future of our statistics and foster future collaboration.

Please sign up on our new subscribers web page to receive updates of the next Crime and Justice Statistics forum as well as other future events.

Latest releases

Links to the latest releases from the Centre for Crime and Justice can be found on our Crime and Justice page. You may also find our Guide to finding crime statistics useful, which collates the main sources of crime statistics, broken down by potential areas of interest.

National Statistical blog posts on crime and justice
Web page | Updated regularly
News and insight from the Office for National Statistics focusing on crime.

Crime outcomes in England and Wales statistics
Collection | Updated 25 April 2024
Statistics on crime outcomes assigned by the police. In previous years, this was the “Crimes detected” statistical series, before the new crime outcomes framework was introduced in April 2013.

Police powers and procedures in England and Wales
Collection | Last updated 19 April 2024
Statistics on arrests for recorded crime, stops and searches, breath tests and police action in relation to motoring offences.

National Fraud Intelligence Bureau fraud and cyber crime dashboard
Interactive tool | Updated regularly
Statistics on the fraud and cybercrimes reported to Action Fraud.

Crime and justice statistics database
Web page | Updated 31 May 2023
Discover all official statistics relating to knife or sharp instrument offences and the impact of crime on individuals and society (crime harm) produced by public bodies in England and Wales in our experimental interactive database published on the Government Statistical Service (GSS) website. We hope to expand this to cover more crime types in the future.

Criminal court statistics
Collection | Updated 22 June 2018
National statistics on cases in the magistrates’ courts and Crown Court and, from March 2017, include language interpreter and translation services statistics.

For crime and justice statistics relating to other UK countries, see the Scottish government's law and order web page and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) crime and justice dashboard.

• Phone: +44 20 7592 8695
• Email: crimestatistics@ons.gov.uk
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For more information on our latest privacy information please visit our Data protection pages.

Further privacy information related to our main sources of crime data can be found in our Crime Survey privacy policy, written alongside Verian Group, and the Home Office privacy information notice.