Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 8 Oct 2024 | Updated: 424 days ago
Data First Magistrates' Court defendant case level dataset (MACO)
Dataset
Documentation
Description:
One record per defendant per case giving details of defendant characteristics, offence categorisation, court proceedings, and outcomes. Details of the principle offence i.e., the offence with the most serious disposal, are given (please note that as the linked criminal courts datasets provide information on only the most serious offence at the point of committal to court and sentencing, they may not include the full range of offending that may be attributable to defendants, and therefore restricts the ability of researchers to explore any associations and correlations between different types of offences within the cases being heard before the courts).
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Coverage
Spatial:
United Kingdom,Wales; United Kingdom,England
Typical Age Range:
0-120
Follow Up:
Other
Pathway:
The lookup contains references to link data held elsewhere on: • individuals
appearing as defendants in criminal cases dealt with by the magistrates' or
Crown Court in England and Wales (including Youth Courts). • individuals
supervised by the probation service in England and Wales • individuals serving
custodial sentences in England & Wales who appear within records from the prison
data source, p-NOMIS. Young Offenders are included if resident at prisons or
Young Offender Institutes (YOIs) that use p-NOMIS, however, this excludes the
majority of Secure Schools and Secure Training Centres. The linking dataset
includes a person ID and link to record in other data first datasets for: •
Disposals in the magistrates’ court from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2020 •
Disposals in the Crown Court from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2020 • Custodial
sentences of offenders in custody from January 2011 to September 2021 (including
sentences begun before 2011) • Offender probation records from January 2014 to
December 2020.
Provenance
Origin
Sources:
Other
Collection Situations:
Other
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Irregular
Start Date:
01 January 2011
End Date:
31 December 2020
Time Lag:
Variable
Accessibility
Access
Access Service:
The SAIL Databank is powered by the UK Secure e-Research Platform (UKSeRP).
Following approval through safeguard processes, access to project-specific data
within the secure environment is permitted using two-factor authentication.
Access for approved purposes and projects is to accredited researchers through
the ONS Secure Research Service (SRS). The application form is available on
gov.uk and governed by MoJ and HMCTS. Please see the application form guidance
and the Data First user guide for more information on the process.
Access Request Cost:
Data provision is free from SAIL. Overall project costing depends on the number
of people that require access to the SAIL Gateway, the activities that SAIL
needs to complete (e.g. loading non-standard datasets), data refreshes,
analytical work required, disclosure control process, and special case
technological requirements.
Delivery Lead Time:
2-6 months
Jurisdictions:
GB-WLS
Data Controller:
SAIL Databank
Data Processor:
SAIL Databank
Usage
Data Use Limitations:
General research use
Data Use Requirements:
- Project-specific restrictions
- Time limit on use
- User-specific restriction
Resource Creators:
Ministry of Justice
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
LOCAL
Conforms To:
LOCAL
Languages:
en
Formats:
SQL Database Table
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Events
Activities, Cases, and People
3000000
Count
29 September 2021