Check the New Zealand Parole Board's Annual Reports page for these years.

Hearing Volumes

The statistics below provide an overview of the number of offenders and related hearings that the Board deals with in a year.  Each year is measured from 1 July to 30 June.

	2002/03	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08
No. of Cases	4955	5461	5265	5229	5939	5165
No. of Hearings	7704	9026	8967	8746	10210	9195

Hearing volumes

The number of cases relates to individual offenders - one offender can appear before the Board more than once in a 12 month period.

The hearing volumes figures on this website give an approximate indication of the Board’s workload and provide a comparison of workload.  It should be noted however, that this is an indication only – there are many other factors which contribute to the workload, for example; the amount of time allocated per case and the involvement of victims, offenders and other people in providing submissions to the Board about an offender’s case.

A note on adjourned hearings

The figures for hearing volumes include hearings that have been adjourned.  This represents additional workload because a hearing has been scheduled, reports have been requested and considered by Board members, and the offender (and in many cases their support people) have appeared before the Board.   Each member is required to familiarise themselves with the offender’s case.  Board members are scheduled to sit at various Board hearings around the country on a quasi-rotational basis, to ensure consistency in Board decision-making processes on a national level.

Number of offenders considered

The figures for the number of offenders considered for a particular case type list each offender once only for each year, for each case type.  The number of offenders figure is provided to indicate changes in the number of people participating in this part of the criminal justice system.

It should be noted that this figure differs from statistics provided in the Board’s Annual Reports which report finite outcomes (approved and declined decision outcomes) for hearings.  The figures provided for the number of offenders on this website report an offender once per case type.  For example, if an offender who is released on parole, is subsequently recalled to prison, and then released on parole again within the reporting year, this will be counted only once for parole and once for recall.

Outcome Volume¹

	2002/03	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08
Home detention	3009	3966	3477	3098	3504	1840
Parole	1842	1732	2584	3296	3971	4261
Postponement	4	8	8	5	5	7
Release on conditions	1033	621	412	420	405	482
Variation	131	285	256	198	210	235
Discharge	3	5	12	7	8	12
Revocations	38	66	67	39	44	41
Recalls	367	389	334	270	394	405
Section 107 applications	21	34	26	22	20	21
Review of Section 107 Orders2	41	61	91	106	95	102
Early referral (Considered by Chairperson)	29	9	3	2	11	4
Extended Order (conditions)	n/a	n/a	14	42	46	40

¹ These statistics are compiled on the basis of hearing outcomes, where a result is either approved, declined, postponed or revoked. They do not include adjourned, reserved or deferred outcomes.
² Includes reviews of orders made under section 105 of the Criminal Justice Act 1985.

 

Home Detention

Front-end (in custody)	2002/03	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08
Approved	1395*	1219	919	717	763	403
Declined	1156*	1472	1203	977	985	552
TOTAL	2551	2691	2122	1694	1748	955
Front-end (deferred)
Approved	- *	403	326	229	289	117
Declined	- *	142	120	97	88	34
TOTAL	n/a	545	446	326	377	151
Back-end (pre-PED)
Approved	175	289	280	372	476	278
Declined	283	441	629	706	903	456
TOTAL	458	730	909	1078	1379	734

 * Deferred and in-custody cases were not compiled separately in automated reports during 2002/03.

Parole

	2002/03	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08
Approved	895	707	818	906	1125	1252
Declined	947	1025	1766	2390	2846	3009
Total	1842	1732	2584	3296	3971	4261

Figures by case type

The following links will take you to Board statistics by case type:

Parole including Early Referrals and back-end (pre-parole) home detention
Front-end home detention (for offenders serving short-term prison sentences)
Release on conditions (non-discretionary releases)
Recalls
Section 107 applications and reviews
Post-release applications (variations to release conditions and compliance monitoring)
Compassionate Releases
Extended Supervision Orders – application for special conditions

Other statistics

The following links will take you to:

Volume of victims’ submissions
Number of Board decisions reviewed under section 67

Last Updated: March 2009