We produce a range of information and statistics across a wide variety of activity within the justice sector.

• COVID-19 Justice Sector Survey

  Provides information about people's perception of safety and the criminal justice system, and how easy COVID-19 rules are to understand.

• Justice statistics

  Justice statistics: factsheets, data tables and analysis on justice related topics.

• Find a publication

  Use the publication finder to search for a wide range of documents.

• Court workload statistics(external link)

  Statistics on annual court and tribunal workloads (new business, disposals and active cases), and waiting times to trial/defended hearing.

• Justice sector projections

  Projections relating to various justice sector issues, including prison population, community sentencing, Crown prosecutions/appeals and legal aid expenditure. 

• New Zealand Crime & Victims Survey (NZCVS)

  Captures the underlying level of crime in New Zealand, delivers core crime and victimisation measures, and provides regular and timely crime and victimisation information for New Zealanders.

• What works to reduce crime

  We want to invest where it will make the biggest difference, so we need to know what works to reduce crime. Evidence Briefs summarise the evidence about how well an investment reduces crime, how much is spent on it, and whether there is scope to increase the level of investment.

• Family violence and sexual violence research

  Our research programme is improving the evidence-base on family violence and sexual violence so we understand the experience of court participants and what works to improve outcomes.

• New Zealand Crime & Safety Survey (NZCASS)

  Measures how much crime occurs, who experiences it, how victims respond, and people's perceptions of crime and the criminal justice system.

Other sources of justice sector information

• Department of Corrections research and statistics(external link)
• New Zealand Police statistics and New Zealand Police research(external link)
• Statistics New Zealand NZ.Stat tool(external link) - web tool that allows the creation of tables from a wide range of datasets, including data from the Ministry of Justice, NZ Police and Department of Corrections.

Email: justiceinfo@justice.govt.nz

This page was last updated: 27th May 2020