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<p>The proportion of guilty pleas (where plea was known) has slowly been declining,
from 74% in 2014 to 69% for white defendants, and from 61% in 2014 to 57% for BAME
defendants in 2018.</p><p>Data is only available for defendants dealt with at Crown
Court (not all defendants) for indictable offences.</p><p>The proportion of defendants
who entered a guilty plea by ethnicity (2008 – 2018) can be found in the Crown court
data tool at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802313/crown-court-tool-2018.xlsx"
target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802313/crown-court-tool-2018.xlsx</a></p><ul><li>Remove
the ‘Values’ field from Rows</li><li>Drag the ‘Ethnicity’ field into Rows</li><li>Drag
the ‘Total for Trial’ field into Values</li><li>Filter to ’01: Guilty Plea’ in the
‘Plea at Crown Court’ field for the number of defendants that entered a guilty plea</li><li>Filter
to ’01: Guilty Plea’ and ’02: Not Guilty plea’ in the ‘Plea at Crown Court’ field
number of defendants that entered a plea overall (where plea was known)</li><li>The
number of BAME defendants can be defined by combining ’02: Black’, ’03: Asian’, ’04:
Mixed’ and ’05: Chinese and other’ rows. The number of white defendants who entered
a guilty plea each year can be found in the ‘01: White’ row.</li><li>The proportion
of defendants who entered a guilty plea can be found by dividing the number of guilty
pleas by the number of overall pleas for the relevant ethnicity rows.</li></ul>
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