Violence against Women and Girls Crime report contents

The underlying data is provided in the linked annex at the beginning of the VAWG report on page 15.
It includes the Area and police force district pre-charge data. Since 2014-15, the VAWG assurance
assessment has included pre-charge as well as charged data.
Equalities issues
Gender
Of the 100,930 defendants prosecuted, 92,851 defendants were male, 7,992 were female and in 87
cases the gender was not recorded 72 . In 2015-16, where the gender of the defendant was recorded,
92.1% were male and 7.9% female 73 , similar to the previous years.
For victim data, from the Witness Management System, 104,193 victims were recorded. Of all
victims, 71,706 were female, 14,406 were male and in 18,081 cases the gender was not recorded.
The recording of victim gender fell slightly from 84% in 2014-15 to 82.6% in 2015-16. Where the
gender of the victim was recorded, the proportion of female victims was 83.3% and male victims
were 16.7%, with similar levels recorded over the previous five years (84% and 16%).
Ethnicity
In 2015-16, 76.4% of DA defendants were categorised as White (a fall from 78.8% in 2014-15), with
70.9% being identified as belonging to the White British category. 6.2% of defendants were identified
as Black, a slight rise of 0.7ppt from the previous year and 5.6% were identified as Asian, a slight rise
of 0.1ppt from the previous year 74 .
Just under half of victim ethnicity is still not recorded and therefore the data is not included in this
report.
Age
From those defendants where age was recorded 75 , the majority of defendants were aged 25-59
(73.7%) and 18-24 (21.7%). Just under 24.4% of defendants (24,521) were aged 24 and under, with
2,591 (2.6%) of defendants being 14-17 years old and 147 (0.1%) aged 10-13.
From those victims where age was recorded 76 , the majority were aged 25-59 (67.6%) and 18-24
(22.5%). Similar to defendant age, 27.5% of victims (23,876) were 24 years old and under, with 3,329
(3.8%) of victims being 14-17 years old, 732 (0.8%) aged 10-13 and 247 under 10 (0.3%).
Relationships
Recording of the relationship between the perpetrator and victim is not yet robust enough to assess,
however the extent of recording within the CPS database has improved again, from 17% in 2010-11
to 57.6% in 2015-16.
72 It is not possible to provide data on the gender of victims in relation to the gender of the defendant from the
current data systems.
73 The figure is similar if calculated out of total, including unrecorded gender (92% male defendants and 7.9%
female defendants).
74 3.8% of defendants did not state an ethnicity on arrest (a rise since 2014-15 of 1ppt) and 5.4% of defendants’
ethnicity was not provided to the CPS by the police (a rise since 2014-15 of 0.6 ppt).
75 99.6% of defendant ages were recorded in 2015-16 – the same as in 2014-15.
76 83.3% of victim ages were recorded in 2015-16, a rise from 82.4% in 2014-15.
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