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Written question asked by Paul Robert Holmes (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 20 January 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 25 January 2010. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Tuesday, 2 February 2010 on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

Youth Justice

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many first-time (a) male and (b) female entrants into the youth justice system aged (i) 10, (ii) 11, (iii) 12, (iv) 13, (v) 14, (vi) 15, (vii) 16 and (viii) 17 years old there were in each of the last three years.
Answer

[holding answer 25 January 2010]: The number of young people, broken down by gender and single year of age, receiving their first reprimand, warning or conviction processed by English or Welsh police forces can be found in the following tables:

Number of young people aged 10 to 17 receiving their first reprimand, warning or conviction, processed by English or Welsh police forces, (and percentage of all year total), by gender and financial year
Male
2006-07 2007-08 2008-09
Age (at time of offence) Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage
10 1,726 1.6 1,579 1.6 1,117 1.4
11 3,595 3.3 3,083 3.1 2,300 2.9
12 6,325 5.7 5,359 5.3 3,976 5
13 9,174 8.3 7,854 7.8 5,722 7.2
14 12,477 11.3 10,771 10.7 8,223 10.4
15 15,037 13.6 13,386 13.4 10,220 12.9
16 14,391 13 13,219 13.2 10,963 13.8
17 12,671 11.5 12,489 12.5 11,024 13.9
Total 75,396 68.4 67,740 67.6 53,545 67.6
Female
2006-07 2007-08 2008-09
Age (at time of offence) Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage
10 317 0.3 241 0.2 175 0.2
11 965 0.9 869 0.9 665 0.8
12 2,671 2.4 2,552 2.5 1,825 2.3
13 5,244 4.8 4,836 4.8 3,804 4.8
14 7,745 7 6,917 6.9 5,418 6.8
15 7,770 7 7,270 7.3 5,585 7
16 5,552 5 5,306 5.3 4,236 5.3
17 4,147 3.8 3,937 3.9 3,483 4.4
Total 34,411 31.2 31,928 31.9 25,191 31.8
Total
2006-07 2007-08 2008-09
Age (at time of offence) Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage
10 2,064 1.9 1,834 1.8 1,309 1.7
11 4,578 4.2 3,983 4 2,989 3.8
12 9,044 8.2 7,963 7.9 5,854 7.4
13 14,482 13.1 12,759 12.7 9,585 12.1
14 20,302 18.4 17,769 17.7 13,743 17.3
15 22,911 20.8 20,779 20.7 15,909 20.1
16 20,033 18.2 18,628 18.6 15,287 19.3
17 16,872 15.3 16,495 16.5 14,584 18.4
Total 110,286 100 100,210 100 79,260 100

Note that the sum of male and female offenders in the above table may not match the total exactly due to gender not being recorded on a small number of cases. An equivalent breakdown by age for offenders living in England only is not available due to the method used to allocate records where insufficient address data are available.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
505 c307-8W; 313121
Session
2009-10
Transferred
Yes
Subjects
Youth justice
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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