Version: 1.0.1 | Published: 16 Jul 2024 | Updated: 204 days ago
Ministry of Justice Data First Magistrates Court Iteration 2 - England and Wales
Dataset
Summary
Citation:
Ministry of Justice, released 21 May 2024, ONS SRS Metadata Catalogue, dataset,
Ministry of Justice Data First Magistrates Court Iteration 2 - England and
Wales, https://doi.org/10.57906/1yrt-zd35
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Documentation
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Description:
The Ministry of Justice Data First magistrates’ court defendant dataset provides data on defendants' appearances in criminal cases before magistrates' courts (including Youth Courts) in England and Wales from 2011 and has been extracted from the LIBRA management information system, used by HisMajesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) to manage cases within magistrates' courts.
Please note: recent cases are now usually recorded on a new case management system, Common Platform. These cases are not included and therefore coverage of magistrates’ cases in this dataset will decrease substantially over time(particularly throughout 2021 and 2022). No Single Justice Procedure cases are included in this dataset. Appropriate coverage and time period will be considered in assessing research project applications.
Information on defendants' characteristics, the offences charged, key case dates, processes and outcomes are included: for example, age, gender, ethnicity, offence category, hearings, plea, conviction, sentencing and committal to Crown Court. Each record in the dataset gives information about a single person and case. There is one table which gives a case summary based on the principal offence and one with records for each offence within the case. Information on magistrates’ cases which are not a criminal offence in law (such as some breaches and applications for civil orders) are included.
As part of Data First, records have been deidentified and deduplicated, using our probabilistic record linkage package, Splink, so that a unique identifier is assigned to all records believed to relate to the same person, allowing for longitudinal analysis and investigation of repeat appearances. This opens up the potential to better understand court users and to build evidence on, for example, patterns associated with prolific offending and what works to reduce reoffending.
The Ministry of Justice Data First linking dataset can be used in combination with this and other Data First datasets to join up administrative records about people from across justice services to increase understanding around users' interactions, pathways and outcomes. Cases can also be linked directly to cases appearing in the Data First Crown Court defendant dataset.
Coverage
Spatial
Spatial Coverage:
- England
- Wales
Geographical Levels:
- local authority district
- lsoa11
Temporal
Start Date:
01 January 2011
Frequency:
IRREGULAR
Distribution Release Date:
21 May 2024
Provenance
Source:
Administrative
Access and Governance
Usage
Condition of Access:
- Access needs approval
- Restricted access
Condition of Use:
- Special statistical disclosure rules
- Output required for approval
Resource Creator:
Office for National Statistics
Access
Access Service:
- Safe Rooms, SafePods
- Assured Organisational Connectivity – office based
- Assured Organisational Connectivity – remote access
Jurisdictions:
GB-EAW
Data Controller:
Ministry of Justice
Access Level:
Access Level 3
Format and Standards
Languages:
en
Formats:
CSV
Enrichment and Linkage
Related Datasets:
- Data First Crown Court Iteration 2 - England and Wales
- Data First Magistrates Court Defendant Iteration 2 - England and Wales
- Ministry of Justice Data First Probation Iteration 2 - England and Wales
- MoJ Data First cross-justice system linking dataset – England and Wales
Linkage Opportunity:
Can be linked to other Ministry of Justice datasets when requested in
combination with the MoJ Data First cross-justice system linking dataset –
England and Wales
Origin
Name:
ONS SRS Metadata Catalogue