Sentencing
(asked on 4th May 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in what proportion of cases, in which custody was not recommended by probation in a pre-sentence report a custodial sentence was handed down to people of each (a) ethnic group and (b) gender in the latest year for which figures are available.
The tables below are drawn from data published on a quarterly basis, which are available at:
Table 1: Number and proportion of cases where custody was not recommended by the Probation Service in a Pre-sentence report but a custodial sentence was given by the courts, by gender, 2015, England and Wales (1) | |||
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Custody | 14% | 8% | 13% |
All other sentences (2) | 86% | 92% | 87% |
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All | 100% | 100% | 100% |
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1 - Exclude Breach, Court Review and Deferred Sentence reports. | |||
2 - All other sentences refer to suspended and community sentences and fine. | |||
Table 2: Number and proportion of cases, where custody was not recommended by the Probation Service in a Pre-sentence report, but a custodial sentence was given by the courts by ethnicity, 2015, England and Wales (1,2,3) |
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| White | Mixed | Asian or Asian British | Black or Black British | Other ethnic group (1) | Not Known (2) | All ethnicities |
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Custody | 12% | 14% | 16% | 14% | 13% | 15% | 13% |
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All other sentences (3) | 88% | 86% | 84% | 86% | 87% | 85% | 87% |
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All | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
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1 - Pre-sentence reports were recorded under the 2011 Census categories which have replaced the 2001 Census categories and therefore Chinese have moved from "Chinese or other ethnic group" to the "Asian/Asian British" category, and the group renamed to "Other ethnic group". This is in line with changes made to the ethnic group classifications in other National Statistic publications in England and Wales following the 2011 Census. |
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2 - Includes reports where ethnicity is not known either due to no recording or a recording of 'Not Stated'. |
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3 - All other sentences refer to suspended and community sentences and fine. |
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