Notes about the tables
Here are explanations about the four tables and what they contain:
- The prosecuted charges tables contain the number of charges finalised in criminal courts during a calendar year. The tables provide information on the number of charges prosecuted in the New Zealand court system. For each calendar year, information is available on the court, type of offence, and outcome of the charge.
- The prosecuted cases tables contain the number of cases completed in criminal courts during a calendar year. The tables provide information on the number of people prosecuted in the New Zealand court system. For each calendar year, information is available on the court, type of offence, and outcome of the case.
- The convicted cases tables contain the number of cases resulting in a conviction finalised in criminal courts during a calendar year. For each calendar year, information is available on the court, type of offence, and type of sentence.
- The demographics of convicted cases tables contain the number of cases resulting in a conviction finalised in criminal courts during a calendar year. For each calendar year, information is available on the age, gender, ethnicity, court region, type of offence, and type of sentence.
The tables available here contain data from the Ministry of Justice's statistical reporting datasets. The data were sourced from the courts' operational data systems. The Law Enforcement System (formerly known as the Wanganui Computer and used by justice agencies from the late 1970s until 2005) was used as the source of these data up to 2003. From 2004, the source of these data was the Case Management System (CMS) of the Ministry of Justice.
Directly identifying details have been removed and there has been aggregation of data to limit information about individuals.
Other notes
Data quality notes
Comparability with published reports
Comparability with police crime data
Sentencing legislation
Conviction and sentencing statistics are currently available online at the Statistics New Zealand website, or in published form through the Ministry of Justice website http://www.justice.govt.nz/pubs/reports/2008/Cns/Cns.html.
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