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Reoffenders

Answer

Tables 1 and 2 following show the one year reoffending rates for adult offenders released from custody or commencing a court order in the first quarter of 2007; table 1 by custodial and court orders and table 2 by previous custodial sentences. The tables show the proportion of offenders that committed at least one further offence and the number of further offences committed per 100 offenders.

Table 1: Actual reoffending rate and frequency rate per 100 offenders from the 2007 adult cohort
Sentence type	Number of offenders released from prison or commencing a court order	Actual reoffending rate	Number of offences per 100 offenders
Custody	12,810	47.2	223.2
Court orders under probation supervision¹	37,275	36.1	121.3
¹ Court orders include community sentences, community orders and suspended sentence orders supervised by the probation service. They do not include any pre or post release supervision.

Further information on adult rates of reoffending can be found in:"http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/reoffendingofadults.htm"

Table 2: Actual reoffending rate and frequency rate per 100 offenders, by number of previous custodial sentences, from the 2007 adult cohort
Number of previous custodial sentences	Number of offenders released from prison or commencing a court order	Actual reoffending rate	Number of offences per 100 offenders
No previous	26,819	25.2	72.6
One previous	6,225	40.3	131.4
Two previous	3,629	48.9	179.9
Three previous	2,491	52.4	198.2
Four previous	1,883	56.6	236.3
Five previous	1,585	59.9	256.8
Between six and 10	4,516	64.5	288.7
More than 10	2,937	76.4	447.1
Total	50,085	39.0	147.3

Tables 3 and 4 following show the one year reoffending rates for juvenile offenders released from custody, commencing a non-custodial court disposal or those given an out-of-court disposal in the first quarter of 2007; table 3 by custodial and non-custodial sentences and table 4 by previous custodial sentences. The table shows the proportion of juvenile offenders that committed at least one further offence and the number of further offences committed per 100 offenders.

Table 3: One year reoffending rates, offenders leaving custody by custodial and non-custodial sentences, from the 2007 juvenile cohort
	Number of juvenile offenders released from custody, commencing a noncustodial court disposal or those given an out-of-court disposal	Actual reoffending rate	Number of offences per 100 offenders
Out-of-court disposal	33,318	26.4	59.7
First-tier penalty	10,869	47.4	154.5
Other disposal	822	65.2	288.0
Community penalty	6,757	69.0	280.4
Custody	778	75.3	359.0
Total	52,544	37.5	115.7

Table 4: Actual reoffending rate and frequency rate per 100 offenders, by number of previous custodial sentences, from the 2007 juvenile cohort
Number of previous custodial sentences	Number of juvenile offenders released from custody, commencing a non-custodial court disposal or those given an out-of-court disposal	Actual reoffending rate	Number of offences per 100 offenders
No previous	51,101	36.2	106.9
One previous	778	80.5	372.4
Two previous	333	85.0	452.6
Three previous	161	86.3	539.8
Four previous	78	88.5	485.9
Five previous	54	90.7	472.2
More than six previous	39	89.7	594.9
Total	52,544	37.5	115.7

Further information on rates of reoffending of juveniles can be found in:"http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/reoffendingjuveniles.htm"

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

498 c558-60W; 295212

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Reoffenders

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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