Crime and Justice

This page brings together OSR’s work on statistics relating to crime, policing, justice systems, and defence. It covers topics such as crime victimisation surveys, police recorded crime, courts and sentencing, prisons, and defence spending.

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Siobhan Tuohy-Smith to Jessie Evans: Compliance review of statistics from the Cyber Security Breaches Survey

Dear Jessie, Compliance review of statistics from the Cyber Security Breaches Survey We have completed a compliance review of the Cyber Security Breaches Survey statistics produced in partnership by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and the Home Office…

Jen Woolford to Ed Humpherson: Review of the quality of fraud and computer misuse statistics for England and Wales

Dear Ed, Review of the quality of fraud and computer misuse statistics for England and Wales Today we published our action plan, Improving the quality of fraud and computer misuse statistics in England and Wales: December 2025. This was developed in…

Rob Kent-Smith to Abbie Self and Damon Wingfield: Compliance review of Justice Data Lab statistics

Dear Abbie and Damon, Compliance review of Justice Data Lab statistics We have completed our compliance review of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ)’s Justice Data Lab (JDL) statistics. Our review examined the extent to which the JDL statistics meet the…

Ed Humpherson to Jen Woolford: Compliance review of domestic abuse estimates from the Crime Survey for England and Wales

Dear Jen,  Accreditation of the domestic abuse estimates from the Crime Survey for England and Wales We have today published our compliance review report covering the domestic abuse estimates from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) produced by…