Projections relating to various justice sector issues, including prison population, community sentencing, Crown prosecutions/appeals and legal aid expenditure.
Captures the underlying level of crime in New Zealand, delivers core crime and victimisation measures, and provides regular and timely crime and victimisation information for New Zealanders.
We want to invest where it will make the biggest difference, so we need to know what works to reduce crime. Evidence Briefs summarise the evidence about how well an investment reduces crime, how much is spent on it, and whether there is scope to increase the level of investment.
Our research programme is improving the evidence-base on family violence and sexual violence so we understand the experience of court participants and what works to improve outcomes.
Statistics New Zealand tool(external link) - web tool that allows the creation of tables from a wide range of datasets, including data from the Ministry of Justice, NZ Police and Department of Corrections.
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