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Reoffenders

Answer

Table 1 shows the number of adults who reoffended within one year, and the frequency of reoffending (per 100 offenders), broken down by index disposal for adults who commenced a court order or were discharged from custody in the first quarter of 2008. Table 2 shows the number of reoffences committed within one year by the same cohort, broken down by offence type.

Table 1: Adults: Actual reoffending rates and frequency of reoffending per 100 offenders, by index disposal, 2008 cohort
	Number of offenders in the cohort	Number of offenders that reoffended	Proportion of offenders that reoffended	Number of offences committed per 100 offenders
Court Orders	37,619	13,589	36.1	123.2
Community Orders	27,504	10,127	36.8	128.5
Suspended Sentence Orders	9,875	3,392	34.3	108.5
Custody	16,099	7,952	49.4	40.1
Overall total	53,718	21,541	230.9	155.5

Table 2: Adults: Number of reoffences by offence type, 2008 cohort
Reoffence type	Number of reoffences
Number of offences	83,516
Violence (serious)	366
Violence (non serious)	9,561
Robbery	665
Public order or riot	7,733
Sexual	365
Sexual (child)	63
Soliciting or prostitution	127
Domestic burglary	1,574
Other burglary	2,339
Theft	25,490
Handling	1,017
Fraud and forgery	1,716
Absconding or bail offences	6,986
Taking and driving away and related offences	1,235
Theft from vehicles	1,229
Other motoring offences	8,198
Drink driving	1,194
Criminal or malicious damage	4,214
Drugs import/export/production/supply	646
Drugs possession/small scale supply	4,719
Other	4,079

Table 3 shows the number of juveniles who reoffended within one year, and the frequency of reoffending (per 100 offenders), broken down by index disposal for juveniles released from custody or commencing a non-custodial court disposal or given an out-of-court disposal in the first quarter of 2008. Table 4 shows the number of reoffences committed within one year by the same cohort, broken down by offence type.

Table 3: Juveniles: Actual reoffending rates and frequency of reoffending per 100 offenders, by index disposal, 2008 cohort
	Number of offenders in the cohort	Number of offenders that reoffended	Proportion of offenders that reoffended	Number of offences committed per 100 offenders
Out-of-court disposal	26,962	6,787	25.2	55.5
First-tier penalty	9,951	4,534	45.6	141.8
Discharge	2,008	1,052	52.4	183.6
Fine	1,089	616	56.6	190.5
Referral Order	5,915	2,249	38.0	102.0
Reparation Order	939	617	65.7	246.5
Community penalty	6,359	4,296	67.6	265.9
Attendance Centre Order	634	399	62.9	208.7
Supervision Order	2,721	1,931	71.0	294.5
Action Plan Order	1,031	658	63.8	224.2
Community Rehabilitation Order	688	470	68.3	267.2
Community Punishment Order	346	220	63.6	238.2
Curfew Order	610	421	69.0	297.0
Unknown	329	197	59.9	239.5
Custody	816	606	74.3	342.5
Other disposal	749	490	65.4	308.9
Total	44,837	16,713	37.3	113.9

Table 4: Juveniles: Number of reoffences by offence type, 2008 cohort
Reoffence type	Number of reoffences
Number of reoffences	51,084
Violence (serious)	281
Violence (non serious)	10,117
Robbery	1,267
Public order or riot	5,609
Sexual	80
Sexual (child)	52
Soliciting or prostitution	0
Domestic burglary	1,745
Other burglary	1,370
Theft	7,558
Handling	748
Fraud and forgery	627
Absconding or bail offences	1,786
Taking and driving away and related offences	1,571
Theft from vehicles	645
Other motoring offences	4,210
Drink driving	281
Criminal or malicious damage	6,775
Drugs import/export/production/supply	250
Drugs possession/small scale supply	3,063
Other	3,049

The definition of a reoffence differs between adults and juveniles. For adults, any offence within a year of release from custody or commencement of a court order, which is proven by court conviction within 18 months of release, is counted as a reoffence. For juveniles released from custody or commencing a non-custodial court disposal or given an out-of-court, an offence proven by court conviction or a caution within the same time period is counted as a reoffence. For this reasons the adult and juvenile reoffending rates are not directly comparable.Adult and juvenile reoffending data for the 2008 cohort were published on 18 March 2010, copies of which have been placed in the House of Commons Library.Alternatively, further information on adult reoffending is available at:"http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/reoffendingof adults.htm"Further information on juvenile reoffending is available at:"http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/reoffending juveniles.htm"

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

508 c665-70W; 323698

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Reoffenders

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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