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Youth Court criminal workload statistics

  Cases in   Cases out   Totals   
  Jul 2015 - Jun 2016  Jul 2015 - Jun 2016  Jul 2015 - Jun 2016  30-Jun-16
  New business Transfers in Disposals Transfers out Cases in Cases out Active
Alexandra YC 7 2 8 1 9 9 2
Ashburton YC 6 1 5 0 7 5 5
Auckland YC 405 116 301 233 521 534 78
Blenheim YC 10 5 14 3 15 17 5
Chatham Islands YC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Christchurch YC 406 84 383 89 490 472 89
Dannevirke YC 6 3 5 4 9 9 0
Dargaville YC 9 12 6 11 21 17 6
Dunedin YC 97 15 74 17 112 91 35
Gisborne YC 109 22 91 21 131 112 40
Gore YC 5 1 4 1 6 5 3
Greymouth YC 13 3 8 5 16 13 4
Hamilton YC 264 62 208 103 326 311 57
Hastings YC 113 28 115 28 141 143 24
Hawera YC 30 17 29 15 47 44 12
Huntly YC 19 29 36 14 48 50 8
Hutt Valley YC 126 26 113 30 152 143 31
Invercargill YC 80 9 75 17 89 92 27
Kaikohe YC 48 17 56 16 65 72 16
Kaikoura YC 2 0 3 0 2 3 0
Kaitaia YC 61 15 61 12 76 73 13
Levin YC 55 15 50 13 70 63 12
Manukau YC 553 252 586 181 805 767 157
Marton YC 4 4 7 0 8 7 1
Masterton YC 62 18 60 16 80 76 15
Morrinsville YC 9 9 16 5 18 21 2
Napier YC 67 32 84 22 99 106 16
Nelson YC 88 7 94 11 95 105 16
New Plymouth YC 88 25 69 29 113 98 22
North Shore YC 96 17 71 42 113 113 30
Oamaru YC 11 1 9 4 12 13 2
Opotiki YC 12 2 11 3 14 14 2
Palmerston North YC 122 18 107 23 140 130 30
Papakura YC 131 93 136 70 224 206 42
Porirua YC 45 23 49 18 68 67 10
Pukekohe YC 50 17 57 20 67 77 9
Queenstown YC 3 0 1 2 3 3 0
Rotorua YC 196 37 158 63 233 221 33
Ruatoria YC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Taihape YC 3 1 2 2 4 4 2
Taumarunui YC 17 3 15 7 20 22 3
Taupo YC 47 19 47 16 66 63 10
Tauranga YC 128 37 124 35 165 159 30
Te Awamutu YC 2 2 4 2 4 6 1
Te Kuiti YC 8 10 14 5 18 19 3
Thames YC 3 5 3 3 8 6 3
Timaru YC 35 14 35 15 49 50 8
Tokoroa YC 19 15 22 15 34 37 8
Waihi YC 11 5 9 7 16 16 1
Waipukurau YC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wairoa YC 7 4 9 3 11 12 3
Waitakere YC 318 118 318 87 436 405 93
Wanganui YC 96 12 76 16 108 92 34
Wellington YC 49 18 48 20 67 68 7
Westport YC 2 1 1 3 3 4 2
Whakatane YC 59 13 64 10 72 74 9
Whangarei YC 109 39 126 35 148 161 24
Youth Courts total 4,321   4,077       1,095

 

Note:

This table is a subset of the total criminal courts combined table

The Youth Court is a specialist division of the District Court. Its processes, practices and statutory principles are markedly different to those of an ordinary criminal court. The Youth Court process does not follow the standard criminal process of appear, convict and sentence. However, for caseload reporting the District Courts' criminal data structure has been used.

A case is now counted as new business when it first comes into the system - when charges are filed. It is counted as a disposal only when it has final charge outcomes for all its charges.  Reporting of annual statistics from July 2013 uses new terminology in order to count transfers between courts and parts of the process: "cases in" alongside "new business" and "cases out" alongside "disposals".

New business/"Cases in"

"Cases in" is the sum of cases filed and at court location level, also includes transfers from other parts of the country. It excludes cases reactivated in the court due to the execution or withdrawal of a warrant to arrest.                                                                             

Disposals/"Cases out"

"Cases Out" is the sum of cases where final outcomes are established on all charges, cases where all the charges are joined into another case, and at court location level, they also include transfers to other parts of the country. It excludes cases put on hold due to the issuing of a warrant to arrest the young person.                                                              

Total active

Active cases are those which are in the Youth Court process and/or are awaiting a final outcome, and are not on hold due to the issuing of a warrant to arrest.