Knife possession offences resulting in a immediate custody in England and Wales 2017

Published by Statista Research Department, Dec 18, 2018

This statistic displays the number of knife possession offences resulting in immediate custody in England and Wales from 2010 to 2017. From 2011 to 2014 the trend of immediate custody was one of decrease, falling from 5,155 in 2011 to 4,787 in 2014. Thereafter, the number of possession charges that resulted in immediate custody increased year on year to a high of 7,303 in the latest period.

Number of knife possession offences resulting in a immediate custody in England and Wales from 2010 to 2017

Characteristic	Number of cases of immediate custody
2010	5,074
2011	5,155
2012*	5,106
2013**	4,586
2014	4,787
2015	5,085
2016	6,439
2017***	7,303

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December 2017

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

2010 to 2017

Supplementary notes

*The disposal given in this table is only the most severe of the disposals given as a result of the offender being found guilty and may also be dependent on other offences committed at the same time.
**On 3rd December 2012 offences involving threatening with a knife or offensive weapon in a public place or in a school premises was introduced and are included in the figures from this point on.
***Denotes where estimated figures have been used. The estimates are based on historical data changes.

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