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Young Offenders: Greater London

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I have been asked to reply.The available information is provided in the following table.Data for 2009 will be available when Sentencing Statistics 2009 is published later this year.The Court Proceedings database does not have data by boroughs. The information provided is for the London criminal justice area.Due to data quality issues we are unable to provide information on breaches from the Courts Proceeding database. Work is currently under way to resolve this.The Courts Proceeding database does not record information on reasons why these orders have been issued, other than the offence committed.The figures referred to in the response relate to stand alone community sentences only. Requirements similar to those of the stand alone orders which have been given as part of the generic Community Order are not included. The Community Order, brought in by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 is available for offenders 18 and over and whose offence was committed from April 2005.The community rehabilitation order and the standalone curfew order were replaced by the community order under the Criminal Justice Act 2003, from April 2005 for offenders over 18.Community rehabilitation orders do not apply to offenders aged under 16.Action plan order and reparation orders apply for offenders aged under 18.

Total number of persons given community sentences for 12 to 19-year-olds, and by London criminal justice area 2002-08
Types of community sentences	Age	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Community Rehabilitation Order	12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
	13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
	14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
	15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
	16	61	29	64	62	39	58	73
	17	237	183	173	207	144	185	216
	18	390	291	251	132	23	31	20
	19	392	293	223	142	10	0	0
Reparation Order	12	5	6	2	3	6	3	0
	13	32	9	8	9	19	20	14
	14	57	24	28	23	38	36	34
	15	106	65	48	57	76	90	73
	16	104	69	68	55	102	99	76
	17	106	56	56	55	72	68	60
	18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
	19	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Action Plan Order	12	16	12	9	7	10	9	14
	13	56	27	28	20	25	39	18
	14	130	71	71	64	79	74	62
	15	209	131	113	116	141	115	104
	16	192	129	134	141	145	132	116
	17	181	111	91	118	131	127	107
	18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
	19	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Attendance Centre	12	5	1	2	1	3	4	1
	13	13	8	11	6	6	6	7
	14	51	26	26	14	11	32	21
	15	89	45	50	52	42	68	47
	16	84	59	64	53	54	69	63
	17	77	60	55	49	67	82	66
	18	43	31	25	27	32	22	25
	19	27	20	19	15	22	15	13
Curfew Order	12	6	5	3	1	4	6	9
	13	20	13	18	15	11	29	41
	14	49	46	62	37	46	70	113
	15	76	91	113	113	83	158	193
	16	72	87	130	101	109	161	212
	17	69	63	94	88	76	119	225
	18	37	46	65	62	23	21	30
	19	32	61	61	49	19	15	23
n/a = Not applicable
Notes:
Community rehabilitation orders do not apply to offenders under 16.
Reparation orders only apply to those aged 17 or under.
These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.
This data has been taken from the Ministry of Justice Court Proceedings database. This data is presented on the principal offence basis. Where an offender has been sentenced for more than one offence the principal offence is the one for which the heaviest sentence was imposed. Where the same sentence has been imposed for two or more offences the principal offence is the one for which the statutory maximum is most severe.
Sentences at the Crown court are categorised according to the police force that prosecuted the offence including those sentences that may be given at a court outside the prosecuting police force's area. The statistics are presented by criminal justice area. Police force areas correspond to criminal justice areas except for the Metropolitan and City of London Police, which are combined to form the London criminal justice area. Prosecutions brought by agencies other than the police are categorised according to the criminal justice area of the sentencing court. In the case of sentences at magistrates courts, a change was made to the categorisation by area as part of the rollout of the Libra case management system in magistrates courts during 2008. Sentences given at courts using the Libra system are categorised according to the criminal justice area of the court while sentences given at courts not yet using the Libra system are categorised in the same way as at the Crown court. By the end of 2008, all magistrates courts were using Libra. This change will have almost no impact on the categorisation by area; only around 0.01 per cent. of sentences at magistrates courts could have been affected in 2007 and 2008. Police forces do not prosecute minor offences (those that are sentenced at magistrates courts) in courts outside their areas.
The figures referred to in the response relate to stand alone community sentences only.
Requirements similar to those of the stand alone orders which have been given as part of the generic community order are not included. The Community Order, which was brought in by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 is available for offenders 18 and over and whose offence was committed from April 2005.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

508 c530-4W; 323889

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Greater London Young offenders Community orders

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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