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This report presents key statistics on activity in the criminal justice system for England and Wales. It provides information up to the year ending June 2022 with accompanying commentary, analysis and presentation of longer-term trends.

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皇冠体育app figures published today, for year ending June 2022, demonstrate the continued recovery of the Criminal Justice System (CJS) since the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prosecutions and convictions have increased in the latest year, by 7% and 10%, respectively; however, they both remain lower than the year ending June 2019 (16% and 15%, respectively). 皇冠体育app increase in the latest year is driven by summary offences (up 13% in the latest year), while prosecutions for indictable offences have decreased by 14%. Despite this, prosecutions for violence against the person and sexual offences have increased, by 21% and 17%, respectively, when compared to pre-COVID levels in the year ending June 2019.

皇冠体育app custody rate for indictable offences has risen to levels seen pre-pandemic at 33% in the latest year, after a fall in the year ending June 2021. 皇冠体育app average custodial sentence length (ACSL) for indictable offences has continued to rise from 22.6 months in the year ending June 2021 to 25.7 months in the latest year. 皇冠体育app largest increases are seen in sexual offences (from 54.3 months to 64.3 months in the latest year) and drug offences (from 39.0 months to 43.7 months in the latest year).