Criminal Justice Statistics 2023 England and Wales

This is the 2023 Criminal Justice Statistics annual bulletin; it provides criminal justice statistics for the latest 12-month period, presented alongside the same 12-month period for the previous year. 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, tools and experimental statistics providing additional insight for users. For technical detail about sources, quality, and terminology, please refer to the accompanying technical guide to criminal justice statistics.

The publication may include revisions for figures previously published where additional data has become available since those publications.