Criminal Justice Statistics 2024 England and Wales

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This is the 2024 Criminal Justice Statistics annual bulletin. This publication provides criminal justice statistics for the latest 12-month period, presented alongside the same 12-month period for the previous year and includes cases for previous periods that have become available since earlier publications.

Where appropriate, the latest figures are compared with the corresponding period in 2019 to provide a comparison with the pre-pandemic period. The bulletin is accompanied by overview tables, and tools providing additional insight for users. For technical detail about sources, quality, and terminology, please refer to the accompanying technical guide to criminal justice statistics.

This report presents key statistics on activity in the Criminal Justice System (CJS) for England and Wales. It provides commentary for January to December 2024 (referred to as the ‘latest year’). The contents of this bulletin will be of interest to government policy makers in the development of policy and their subsequent monitoring and evaluation. Others will be interested in the way different crimes are dealt with in the CJS and trends in sentencing outcomes.