Statistical Notice
Further breakdowns of proven reoffending data by gender and
custodial sentence length
22 March 2013
Background
This ad-hoc statistical notice presents further breakdowns of already published
information on proven re-offending.
Further details on proven re-offending can be found in the Proven Reoffending Statistics quarterly bulletin which was last published on 31 January
2013 and covered the twelve months ending March 2011. The data used for
this analysis is for the twelve months ending December 2010. This publication
can be accessed on the Justice Statistics web page at:
www.justice.gov.uk/statistics/reoffending/proven-re-offending
The main Proven Re-offending publication should be referred to for the
definitions of terms used in this statistical notice, and for commentary to help
interpret these results.
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Proven re-offending
Table 1 in this statistical notice gives a further breakdown of information
published in the Proven Re-offending Statistics quarterly bulletin for January to
December 2010. Within that publication, Table 2 presents adult proven reoffending data by gender and Table 19a presents adult proven re-offending
data by custodial sentence length. The information presented here gives the
adult proven re-offending data by gender from Table 2 together with a
breakdown by gender of the custodial sentence length adult proven reoffending data from Table 19a.
Table 1 in this statistical notice provides proven re-offending rates broken
down by sentence length. However these figures should not be compared to
assess the relative effectiveness of different sentences in reducing reoffending because they are based on offenders with different characteristics,
such as age, gender, length of criminal career or number of previous offences.
Thus, any difference in re-offending rates could not be solely attributed to the
sentence the offender received.
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Table 1: One year proven re-offending data for adult offenders released from custody in 2010, by gender and custodial
sentence length, England and Wales
Proportion of
offenders
who re-offend
(%)
Average
number of
re-offences per
re-offender
Average
number of
re-offences per
offender
(frequency rate)
Number of
re-offences
Number of
re-offenders
Number of
offenders
in cohort
57.8
4.66
2.69
73,442
15,762
27,277
36.7
3.08
1.13
27,068
8,777
23,928
47.8
4.09
1.96
100,523
24,549
51,395
55.6
5.38
2.99
9,665
1,798
3,235
24.0
2.99
0.72
1,176
393
1,636
44.8
4.95
2.22
10,841
2,191
4,889
57.6
4.73
2.72
83,107
17,560
30,512
35.9
3.08
1.10
28,244
9,170
25,564
47.5
4.16
1.98
111,364
26,740
56,284
Male
Less than 12 months
12 months or more
1
Total
Female
Less than 12 months
12 months or more
1
Total
All adult offenders
Less than 12 months
12 months or more
Total
(1)
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Excluding offenders released from indeterminate sentences for public protection and life sentences
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Contacts
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Email: [email protected]
Other enquiries about these statistics should be directed to the Justice
Statistics Analytical Services division of the Ministry of Justice:
Mike Elkins
Chief Statistician
Ministry of Justice
7th Floor
102 Petty France
London
SW1H 9AJ
Email: [email protected]
General enquiries about the statistical work of the Ministry of Justice can be emailed to: [email protected]
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from: www.statistics.gov.uk
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