ROD

Children’s Court Register Sampling
The Children’s Court data was drawn from the registers of two Children’s Courts, Milimani and
Tononoka. Some 100 observations were drawn from each of these courts. The court registers
are numbered yearly. A sample was drawn with a fixed sampling interval, so that researchers
selected every nth entry (where n= number in two years / 100). The dataset analysed comprises
200 observations from the court registers. Where this was necessary and possible, additional
information was drawn from court files. Observations were weighted in accordance with the total
number of cases enrolled in their respective courts. It is unclear the extent to which the two
courts selected are representative of Children’s Courts in Kenya. The findings are probably only
representative of the two courts concerned.
Table 1: Number of observations in Children’s Court Dataset
Name Frequency Percent Cumulative
Milimani 100 50.00 50.00
Tononoka 100 50.00 100.00
Total 200 100.00
At Milimani, the research fieldworker collected observations for both Child Care and Protection
matters and crimes involving children, while at Tononoka observations were drawn only from
those cases which were not Child Care and Protection matters. The 100 Milimani observations
thus represent all 1200 cases of all types over those two years heard in Milimani, and the 100
Tononoka observations represent only the 200 non-Care and Protection cases heard there over
two years.
Table 2: Number of cases enrolled at Children’s Courts, 2013-2014
Name Frequency Percent Cumulative
Milimani (All Matters) 1,200 85.71 85.71
Tononoka (All Matters Excluding Child Care 200 14.29 100.00
and Protection Cases)
Total 1,400 100.00
Consequently it is appropriate to analyse the Care and Protection matters separately from the
other matters, and to separate matters relating to crimes committed against children from crimes
in which children are facing charges themselves. The number of observations for each of the
three categories is represented below.
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