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Synthetic working data

Explore the starter data

We used AI-assisted research to investigate the published sources, then created 20 non-sensitive synthetic records shaped by what those sources expose. It is starter data for exploration—not real service data or evidence.

Read the note on this dataset

Twenty invented quarterly rows standing in for the published court disposal counts, with five offence groups, a banded number of disposals, and a median number of days from start to disposal.

Every record in the file

Inspect, compare, understand

Use 20 synthetic quarterly rows across five offence groups to frame research questions without case or person-level data. Switch views without losing the description, source file, or limitations on this page.

SYN-JR-01Violence against the person2025-Q1500-1000480
SYN-JR-02Violence against the person2025-Q2500-1000495
SYN-JR-03Violence against the person2025-Q3500-1000510
SYN-JR-04Violence against the person2025-Q4500-1000505
SYN-JR-05Theft2025-Q11000-2500320
SYN-JR-06Theft2025-Q21000-2500315
SYN-JR-07Theft2025-Q31000-2500330
SYN-JR-08Theft2025-Q41000-2500340
SYN-JR-09Criminal damage2025-Q1500-1000290
SYN-JR-10Criminal damage2025-Q2500-1000300
SYN-JR-11Criminal damage2025-Q3500-1000285
SYN-JR-12Criminal damage2025-Q4500-1000295
SYN-JR-13Drug offences2025-Q1100-500410
SYN-JR-14Drug offences2025-Q2100-500425
SYN-JR-15Drug offences2025-Q3100-500400
SYN-JR-16Drug offences2025-Q4100-500415
SYN-JR-17Motoring offences2025-Q1over 2500180
SYN-JR-18Motoring offences2025-Q2over 2500175
SYN-JR-19Motoring offences2025-Q3over 2500190
SYN-JR-20Motoring offences2025-Q4over 2500185
Synthetic working data

AI-assisted research helped identify and interpret the published sources. We then created a small, non-sensitive synthetic dataset shaped by the information those sources expose. It is for exploration—not evidence, training, or operational decisions.

Method note

How it was prepared

AI authored fictional banded disposal counts and median days to disposal for each offence group.

Conditions for use

What this dataset cannot tell you

  • The counts and the day figures are invented, so no row here describes what happens in any Northern Ireland court.
  • Five offence groups over one year cannot show the linkage error, missing records, and changes of process that a real analysis spends most of its time on.
  • A count of disposals says nothing about what happened to anyone, and a pattern found in a table like this cannot be turned into a statement about a person.
  • It is invented. No record describes a real person, place, case, or measurement, and no result computed from it is evidence that anything works in a live service.