The information requested on the number of defendants found guilty under the Street Offences Act 1959 in England and Wales for the years 1997-2005 is provided in the following table. Information for 2006 will be available at the end of November 2007.
16-17 18 and over All ages 1997 146 5,543 5,695 1998 109 5,112 5,223 1999 38 3,339 3,378 20003 21 3,374 3,397 2001 6 2,834 2,841 2002 6 2,662 2,668 2003 3 2,624 2,627 2004 3 1,732 1,735 2005 0 1,115 1,116 1 These data are on the principal offence basis. 2 Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the police forces and courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. 3 Staffordshire police force were only able to submit sample data for persons proceeded against and convicted in the magistrates courts for the year 2000. Although sufficient to estimate higher orders of data, these data are not robust enough at a detailed level and have been excluded from the table. Source: Court proceedings database held by RDS Office for Criminal Justice Reform. Our ref. IOS 396-07 (Table).