Ethnic breakdown of prosecutions for hate crime, rape and child abuse cases

Request

Can I please access ethnicity breakdown of flagged crime types of people who had prosecutions against them for 2020, 2021 and 2022, these are:

Hate crime flagged crimes
Racist hate crime
Homophobic hate crime
Religious hate crime
Transphobic hate crime
Rape flagged crimes
Child abuse flagged crimes

If you can additionally, please split this by Police force area if that is possible.

Response

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) holds information in scope of your request, and this is detailed in the attached document identified as “12130 DATA”.

The data are recorded on a defendant basis and not by offences. This means that the column “finalised” in each table shows the number of defendants for whom a prosecution outcome has been recorded on the CPS Case Management Information System.

When considering the information, it is important to note the listed caveats and specifically the following: -

• For Police Force Areas, the data reported in the tables show the proceedings that originated in the stated Police Force.  This does not necessarily indicate that a prosecution was commenced or completed in the geographical area covered by that Force or the corresponding CPS Area due to cross border transfer of cases.
• For Protected Characteristics, data on the ethnicity of defendants are collected by the CPS in accordance with the agreed Criminal Justice System definitions for the 16+1 and from February 2021 the 18+1 self-defined ethnicity (SDE) categories.
• Police forces are required to use the SDE 16+1 (now 18+1) codes when spoken contact has taken place and an individual has been given an opportunity to state their self-perceived ethnicity.
• Ethnicity data are provided by the police and are subject to varying levels of error and omission at local levels.  We do not consider therefore that full reliance can be placed on this information.
• Prosecuted defendants whose ethnicity has either not been provided or was not stated have been included in these tables.