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Data First Magistrates' Court defendant case level dataset (MACO)

Population Size

Not reported

Years

2011 - 2020

Associated BioSamples

None/not available

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom

Wales

Lead time

2-6 months

Summary

Individuals appearing as defendants in criminal cases dealt with by the magistrates' court in England and Wales (including Youth Courts). Companies appearing as defendants have been excluded.

Documentation

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).
Dataset type
Health and disease
Dataset sub-type
Not applicable
Associated media
https://popdatasci.swan.ac.uk/centres-of-excellence/sail/;,;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK9-Jw3uVkw;,;https://saildatabank.com/, https://saildatabank.com/about-us/, https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ministry-of-justice-data-first#moj-cross-justice-system-datasets

Keywords

SAIL, Justice, MOJ, RAP, MACO, core-res

Observations

Observed Node
Disambiguating Description
Measured Value
Measured Property
Observation Date

Events

Activities, Cases, and People

3000000

Count

29 Sep 2021

Provenance

Source of data extraction
Other
Collection source setting
Other
Patient pathway description

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.

Image contrast
Not stated
Biological sample availability
None/not available

Structural Metadata

Details

Publishing frequency
Daily
Version
7.0.0
Modified

08/10/2024

Citation Requirements
Ministry of Justice

Coverage

Start date

01/01/2011

End date

31/12/2020

Time lag
Less than 1 week
Geographic coverage
United Kingdom, Wales, England
Maximum age range
120
Follow-up
Other

Accessibility

Language
en
Controlled vocabulary
LOCAL
Format
SQL Database Table

Data Access Request

Dataset pipeline status
Not available
Access rights
https://saildatabank.com/data/apply-to-work-with-the-data/
Time to dataset access
2-6 months
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.
Access method category
TRE/SDE
Access service description

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.

Jurisdiction
GB-WLS
Data use limitation
General research use
Data use requirements
Project-specific restrictions,Time limit on use,User-specific restriction
Data Controller
SAIL Databank
Data Processor
SAIL Databank

Dataset Types: Health and disease

Collection Sources: Other