Official Statistics

Associations between ethnic background and being sentenced to prison in the Crown Court in England and Wales in 2015

These official statistics examine how self-reported ethnicity is associated with the odds of being sentenced to prison at the Crown Court, 2015

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Published: 16 November 2016

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Associations between ethnic background and being sentenced to prison in the Crown Court in England and Wales in 2015

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This paper uses logistic regression to examine the association between self-reported ethnicity and being sentenced to prison for offenders convicted of recordable, indictable offences in the Crown Court in 2015.

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Published 16 November 2016