Domestic Abuse
(asked on 18th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answers of 13 November, 28 November and 14 December 2017 to Questions 112585, 112584 and 118460 on 14 December 2017, on domestic violence: convictions and prosecutions, what that data is by fiscal year.
For the financial year 2015/16 there were 20 prosecutions and 2 summary convictions for the offence of controlling or coercive behaviour under section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015. For the financial year 2016/7 there were 135 prosecutions and 30 summary convictions for this offence. The breakdown of this data is shown below:
| 2015/16 | April – December 2016 |
Summary convictions | 2 | 30 |
Sentenced at Crown Court | - | 7 |
Sentenced at Magistrates’ Court | 2 | 23 |
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Immediate custodial sentence | - | 4 |
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Maximum term (6 months) | - | 3 |
These are cases where the controlling or coercive offence was the principal offence. Where a defendant is charged with such an offence alongside another, such as serious sexual assault, the conviction and proceeding would be identified as a sexual assault offence in the statistics.
Court proceedings data for 2017, including the period for January to March making up the balance of the 2016/17 fiscal year, is planned for publication in May 2018