ABSTRACT
This chapter follows an account of some of the findings from the court study. As the base consisted of 9,689 cases brought by 21 agencies across three courts the extent of possible detail in presentation here is considerable where data was generated but did not appear to have any possible significance for legal or social policy or managerial issues concerning agencies or the courts, it has been omitted from coverage. The costs of replicating that work across all the magistrates' courts of England and Wales, of which there are some 460, would therefore be prohibitive. A great many courts have jurisdictions smaller than the smallest in this research project, and deal with considerably fewer agency prosecutions. Many other magistrates' courts, however, have much higher numbers of agency cases than those dealt. It is easy to see why this type of offending can be regarded as something other than a criminal offence.
