Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 3 Jul 2024 | Updated: 210 days ago
Ministry of Justice Data First Crown Court Iteration 2 - England and Wales
Dataset
Summary
Citation:
Ministry of Justice, released 08 May 2024, ONS SRS Metadata Catalogue, dataset,
Ministry of Justice Data First Crown Court Iteration 2 - England and Wales,
https://doi.org/10.57906/v08y-hb84
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Description:
The Ministry of Justice Data First Crown Court defendant dataset provides data on defendants’ appearances in criminal cases before Crown Court in England & Wales from 2013, and has been extracted from XHIBIT management information system, used by His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) to manage cases within the Crown Court.
Please note: recent Trial and Sentencing cases are now usually recorded on a new case management system, Common Platform. These cases are not included and therefore coverage of Crown Court cases in this dataset will decrease over time (particularly for cases received from mid-2021) although the majority of cases disposed during 2021 and 2022 are captured. Appropriate coverage and time period will be considered in assessing applications to use this data.
Information on defendants’ characteristics, the main offence charged, key cases dates, processes and outcomes is included: for example, age, gender, ethnicity, offence category, hearings, please, conviction and sentencing. Cases heard at the Crown Court for Trial, Sentencing or Appeal are included. 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 a record for each offence within the case.
As part of Data First, records have been deidentified and deduplicated, using our probabilistic record linking 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 magistrates’ courts defendant dataset.
Coverage
Spatial
Spatial Coverage:
- England
- Wales
Geographical Levels:
- local authority district
- lsoa11
Temporal
Start Date:
01 January 2011
Latest Data:
31 March 2023
Frequency:
IRREGULAR
Distribution Release Date:
08 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 Prison Iteration 2 - England and Wales
- MoJ Data First cross-justice system linking dataset – England and Wales
- Data First Civil Court Iteration 2 - England and Wales
- Data First Family Court Iteration 2 - England and Wales
- Data First Magistrates Court Defendant Iteration 2 - England and Wales
Linkage Opportunity:
Can be linked to other MpJ Iteration 2 datasets through the MoJ Data First
cross-justice system linking dataset – England and Wales
Origin
Name:
ONS SRS Metadata Catalogue