Persons cautioned for indictable (excluding motoring) offences as a percentage of persons found guilty or cautioned. Ministry of Justice administrative data covers police force areas in England and Wales across eight fiscal years from 2000/01 to 2007/08.
Use Cases
- Analyzing geographic disparities in cautioning rates based on police force area.
- Tracking changes in cautioning practices over time based on the 2000-2007 time coverage.
- Comparing cautioning outcomes based on sex and age group variables mentioned in the description.
Strengths
- Data spans eight fiscal years from 2000/01 to 2007/08.
- Sourced from official Ministry of Justice administrative records.
- Provides breakdowns by police force area, sex, and age group.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to administrative sources.
Provenance
- Source
- Ministry of Justice (MoJ)
- Collection Method
- Administrative data
- Time Range
- 2000/01 to 2007/08
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:51.220767; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- England and Wales (Police Force Area)