About this data

Source: Home Office, Crime outcomes in England and Wales (annual releases, years ending March 2015 to 2026)

• Outcomes are for offences recorded in each year, as they stood when the data was extracted a few months after the year end. Some offences, particularly complex ones like sexual offences, are still under investigation at that point, so the final charge rate will be somewhat higher.
• Part of the fall in charge rates for violence reflects the growing number of lower-level offences such as harassment and malicious communications being recorded, which are less likely to lead to a charge.
• Greater Manchester Police is excluded in 2019/20 and 2020/21, and Devon and Cornwall in 2022/23 and 2023/24, because of IT system problems.

This chart appears in Crime.