Justice Ministerial Statistical Office
The Ministerial Statistical Office of Justice is the Statistics and Studies Sub-Directorate (S/D SE).
The S/D SE is linked to the Ministry of Justice’s Secretariat-General.
The field of expertise of this Ministerial Statistical Office covers how judicial institutions work, criminal justice including in its dimension of enforcement of sentences, juvenile justice, civil litigation (private disputes, divorce, adoption, acquisition of nationality, violations by companies, and so on) and access to law and justice.
Main missions
The S/D SE designs, produces, adds value to and disseminates the Ministry of Justice’s statistical information.
It encompasses the Secretariat for the governing body of judicial statistics, the Statistics and Studies Council, which designates the orientations and study programmes.
It responds to national observatories and specialist European and international bodies which collect, process and produce statistical information.
Statistical production
Most of the statistical production of the S/D SE is based on using data from court management software and covers all aspects of justice: civil, criminal and minors, penitentiary administration, legal aid, legal assistants, and so on.
It also carries out light surveys of the courts, associations of judicial service and with specific populations of litigants, and uses the information contained in court decisions, which is collected by sampling on specific themes.
Studies and forecasting
The statistical studies of the S/D SE aim to take stock of the activity of justice, the evolution of litigation, monitoring the effectiveness of laws and knowledge of litigants. They often accompany, upstream and downstream, legislative and regulatory reforms.
Studies of particular phenomena, which cannot be measured using the available indicators, are sometimes carried out in conjunction with universities and research centres.
Dissemination
The S/D SE shares data with the general public (including the annual work Références statistiques justice) and studies (notably Infostat Justice) on the website justice.gouv.fr, under the Ouvrir dans un nouvel ongletStatistics section.
It also ensures the dissemination of statistics within the Chancellery and the courts and can produce study reports for internal use by the Ministry.