Criminal conviction and sentencing tables: Fiscal year and Calendar years

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. Adults convicted in court by sentence type - most serious offence fiscal or calendar year The ‘Adults convicted’ table contains the number of adults (aged 17 and over; or from 1 July 2019 onwards aged 18 and over) with convicted charges in a criminal court during a fiscal or calendar year. This data only shows the most serious offence per adult per year. Where an adult has more than one offence in a year, the data shown (e.g. offence type, outcome, sentence) relates to the most serious offence. This means that using data counting the most serious offence in isolation can result in an undercount of the number of adults charged with specific offence types. Note that the size of undercounts will vary depending on the offence or charge outcome type. For more representative information on specific offence or charge outcome types refer to the data tables on the Ministry of Justice website. 'Multiple ethnicity' information is used in this table. This means for each ethnicity an adult is counted once per fiscal or calendar year (e.g. they may be counted in both European and Māori). As some adults have multiple recorded ethnicities, this will result in the sum of ethnicities being greater than the total number of people each year. Adults with finalised charges in court – most serious offence fiscal or calendar year The ‘Adults prosecuted’ table contains statistics for 1980 onwards about adults (aged 17 and over, or from 1 July 2019 onwards aged 18 and over) with charges finalised in criminal courts during a fiscal or calendar year. This data only shows the most serious offence per adult per year. Where an adult has more than one offence in a year, the data shown (e.g. offence type, outcome, sentence) relates to the most serious offence. This means that using data counting the most serious offence in isolation can result in an undercount of the number of people charged with specific offence types. Note that the size of undercounts will vary depending on the offence or charge outcome type. For more representative information on specific offence or charge outcome types refer to the data tables on the Ministry of Justice website. Charges finalised for adults by offence type fiscal or calendar year The ‘Charges prosecuted against adults’ table contains statistics for 1980 onwards about the number of charges finalised against adults (aged 17 and over, or from 1 July 2019 onwards aged 18 and over) in criminal courts during a fiscal or calendar year. Children and young people given an order in court - most serious offence fiscal or calendar year The ‘Children and young people given an order’ table contains statistics for 1992 onwards about children and young people with a ‘Youth court proved (order under s283)’outcome or who are convicted and sentenced in the District or High Court during a fiscal or calendar year. This data only shows the most serious proved offence per child or young person per year. Where a person has more than one proved offence in a year, the data shown (e.g. offence type, outcome, order/sentence) relates to the most serious proved offence. Note that statistics for children and young people with orders/sentences use a slightly different counting rule to children and young people with proved charges. The most serious ‘Youth court proved (order under s283)’ or ‘Convicted and sentenced in adult court’ charge outcome and order/sentence is counted regardless of whether the charge was for a non-imprisonable traffic offence heard in the District Court or not. This means that using data counting the most serious offence in isolation can result in an undercount of the number of people charged with specific offence types. Note that the size of undercounts will vary depending on the offence or charge outcome type. 'Multiple ethnicity' information is used in this table. This means for each ethnicity a person is counted once per fiscal or calendar year (e.g. they may be counted in both European and Māori). As some people have multiple recorded ethnicities, this will result in the sum of ethnicities being greater than the total number of people each year. A modified version of Stats NZ's method of base 3 random rounding has been applied to protect the confidentiality of individuals. In the standard version, all counts are randomly rounded up or down to one of the adjoining multiples of 3 (e.g. a count of 5 would be displayed as either 3 or 6, and a count of 1 would be displayed as either 0 or 3). In the modified version, 1s and 2s are always rounded up to 3. Only zero counts are displayed as 0. Children and young people with finalised charges in court – most serious offence fiscal or calendar year The ‘Children and young people charged’ table contains statistics for 1992 onwards about children and young people who were charged in a criminal court during a fiscal or calendar year for their most serious offence in that year. This data only shows the most serious offence per child or young person per year. Where a child or young person has more than one offence in a year, the data shown (e.g. offence type, outcome, most serious order/sentence) relates to the most serious offence. This means that using data counting the most serious offence in isolation can result in an undercount of the number of people charged with specific offence types. Note that the size of undercounts will vary depending on the offence or charge outcome type. 'Multiple ethnicity' information is used in this table. This means for each ethnicity a person is counted once per fiscal or calendar year (e.g. they may be counted in both European and Māori). As some people have multiple recorded ethnicities, this will result in the sum of ethnicities being greater than the total number of people each year. A modified version of Stats NZ's method of base 3 random rounding has been applied to protect the confidentiality of individuals. In the standard version, all counts are randomly rounded up or down to one of the adjoining multiples of 3 (e.g. a count of 5 would be displayed as either 3 or 6, and a count of 1 would be displayed as either 0 or 3). In the modified version, 1s and 2s are always rounded up to 3. Only zero counts are displayed as 0. en-NZ