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Stalking: Reoffenders

Answer

Data showing how many people were convicted of stalking offences after having been previously convicted for stalking in each of the last 30 years for which data is available can be viewed in the table below.

Offenders convicted¹ of a stalking offence² who had a previous³ conviction for a stalking offence, England and Wales⁴, 2010 to 2021

Year5	Count
2010	1
2011	2
2012	2
2013	8
2014	13
2015	24
2016	20
2017	26
2018	44
2019	46
2020	80
2021	81

Source: Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer (PNC)

1) Found guilty at court. Offenders given a caution have been excluded.

2) Stalking offences include racially or religiously motivated stalking without violence, racially or religiously motivated stalking with fear of violence; both under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and stalking involving fear of violence, stalking involving serious alarm/distress, stalking without fear / alarm / distress; all three under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.

3) Previous offences are counted as at the offender’s latest offence in each year.

4) England and Wales include all 43 police force areas in England and Wales plus the British Transport Police.

5) Each offender is only counted once in each year but may be included in the table multiple times if they were convicted in multiple years during the period.

6) The PNC is a large-scale administrative database that evolves over time. Despite carrying out validation on entry, prior to submission and within the statistical processes following extraction the data are subject to some inaccuracies inherent in any similar large-scale data recording system (e.g. mistyped data entries).

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

37498

Session

2022-23

Subjects

Stalking Reoffenders

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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