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Home Office

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Mr. Win Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for each police authority area the number of re-convictions of young offenders and the percentage this represents of all young offenders, indicating the type of sentence originally passed. [140642] Mr. Charles Clarke: Estimates of the percentage of young offenders reconvicted within two years of original sentence in each police authority area in England and Wales are in the table. The information is based on a sample of 4,490 offenders aged under 18, who were sentenced to non-custodial sentences in 1996. 2,865 (63.8 per cent.) were reconvicted within two years of the original sentence. Due to the small numbers of offenders sampled in many areas, it is not possible to provide robust estimates of the types of sentence originally passed. Many factors influence the reconviction rates for police authority areas, including differing offender characteristics, such as age, offence and previous criminal history, and variations in police and prosecution practice. Two year reconviction rates for young offenders by police authority area in 1996 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Police authority area Percentage reconvicted Number of offenders sampled Avon 54 59 Bedfordshire 74 31 Cambridgeshire 70 43 Cheshire 60 82 Cleveland 81 129 Cumbria 61 56 Derbyshire 53 93 Devon 69 65 Dorset 59 34 Durham 68 98 Essex 56 98 Gloucestershire 54 41 Greater Manchester 66 327 Hampshire 65 106 Hertfordshire 65 63 Humberside 67 106 Kent 55 110 Lancashire 69 121 Leicestershire 49 81 Lincolnshire 71 36 Merseyside 65 185 Metropolitan Police{1} 61 552 Norfolk 57 30 Northamptonshire 85 41 Northumbria 69 262 North Yorkshire 53 53 Nottinghamshire 76 133 South Yorkshire 55 152 Staffordshire 56 97 Suffolk 74 34 Surrey 50 28 Sussex 62 52 Thames Valley 64 107 Warwickshire 57 44 West Mercia 59 71 West Midlands 67 275 West Yorkshire 64 228 Wiltshire 57 30 North Wales 61 75 South Wales 68 155 Dyfed-Powys 71 42 Gwent 73 59 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Includes City of London

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

357 c686-8W;357 c685-6W; 140642

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Convictions Young people Young offenders Reoffenders

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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