Criminal Proceedings: Ethnic Groups

(asked on 1st December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish updated figures from the Relative Rate Index (RRI) model for the measures specified in the 2016 Ministry of Justice paper entitled Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic disproportionality in the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales.


Answered by
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Alex Chalk
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
This question was answered on 9th December 2020

In February 2020, a report on Tackling Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice was accompanied by tables which included a 5 year time-series of RRIs up to 2018. The report is the most up to date analysis and links to the biennial Race and the Criminal Justice System Statistics (2018) published in November 2019.

Relative rate indexes (RRIs) are currently being used across a number of Ministry of Justice publications including in the Race in the Criminal Justice System, Youth Justice annual publications and the Judicial Selection and Recommendations for Appointment publications. RRIs allow clear comparisons to identify and understand disparity. A consistent approach across the criminal justice system ensures that the treatment and outcomes for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups can be examined in more detail, with a greater degree of analysis in order to understand disparities and direct reforms where they cannot be explained.

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