Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System 1998

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Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Section 95 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 requires the Secretary of State to publish such information as he considers expedient in order to enable those involved in the criminal justice system to become aware of the financial implications of their decisions, or to avoid improper discrimination on grounds of race, sex or any other improper grounds. The Home Office published a series of documents in 1992, 1994, 1995 and 1997 on the issue of race within the criminal justice system under these requirements. These documents brought together both points relating to the Government's policy on race as well as statistical information on the representation of ethnic minorities as suspects, offenders and victims within the criminal justice system and on employees within the criminal justice agencies. 1.2 From 1998 the Home Office has decided to publish the statistical information separately, on an annual basis. As new statistical sources become available, they will be included in this series. The basic statistical information in this document should be considered in conjunction with research reports which are now available on related issues (see references). 1.3 This year's statistical tables are similar to many of those in the 1997 publication but are now more complete with all police forces providing data. In addition, the percentage of data shown as 'not known' has fallen substantially. Because of the improvement in data quality between the first and second year of the police data collection it is not possible to look at year-on-year changes. However it is expected that such comparisons will be included in future publications. Section 95 1.4 The police information is presented in two ways: a) Detailed tables covering the ten police forces with the highest percentage population of ethnic minorities (Bedfordshire, Greater Manchester, Hertfordshire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Metropolitan, Nottinghamshire, Thames Valley, West Midlands and West Yorkshire). 83 % of the ethnic minority population of England and Wales are estimated as living in these police force areas. b) Summary tables covering all police force areas. 1.5 The following conventions have been used throughout this publication . 0 = nil or less than 0.5%/50 .. = not available * = not applicable 7
Section 95 8
Page 1 and 2: Statistics on Race
Page 4 and 5: Contents Foreword by the Home Secre
Page 6 and 7: Foreword by the Chairman of the Cri
Page 8 and 9: Summary of main findings In 1997/98
Page 12 and 13: Chapter 2 Developments in ethnic mo
Page 14 and 15: Racial Incidents 2.14 Information o
Page 16 and 17: Chapter 3 Police and Criminal Evide
Page 18 and 19: Section 95 Table 3.1 Stop and searc
Page 20 and 21: Section 95 Table 3.3 Percentage of
Page 22 and 23: Chapter 4 Arrests and cautions Intr
Page 24 and 25: Section 95 Table 4.1 Total arrests
Page 26 and 27: Section 95 Table 4.3 Proportion of
Page 28 and 29: Section 95 Table 4.5 Arrests,cautio
Page 30 and 31: Chapter 5 Homicide Introduction 5.1
Page 32 and 33: Chapter 6 Persons supervised by the
Page 34 and 35: Chapter 7 Prisons Introduction 7.1
Page 36 and 37: Section 95 Table 7.3 Prison populat
Page 38 and 39: Chapter 8 Racial incidents Introduc
Page 40 and 41: Chapter 9 Practitioners in the Crim
Page 42 and 43: Appendix A1 Estimated (1) populatio
Page 44 and 45: References Section 95 Phillips and
Page 46: Produced by the Research, Developme

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