Reoffenders
(asked on 12th September 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders received one fixed-term recall in the last year for which information is available; and what the (a) violence against the person and (b) other offence category was relating to each of those recalls.
Number of offenders who received one fixed-term recall during 2016, by offence type; England & Wales | |
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| 2016 |
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Total | 6,073 |
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Offence type: |
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Violence Against the Person | 585 |
Other | 5,488 |
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Number of offenders who received more than one fixed-term recall during 2016, by offence type; England & Wales | |
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| 2016 |
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Total | 790 |
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Offence type: |
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Violence Against the Person | 40 |
Other | 750 |
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Fixed-term recalls as a proportion of all recalls, 2015 and 2016; England & Wales | ||
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| 2015 | 2016 |
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Total recalls | 21,467 | 21,559 |
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Of which: |
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Fixed-term | 8,294 | 6,988 |
As a percentage of total | 39% | 32% |
The figures in these tables have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
Whilst information on previous convictions of offenders who receive a fixed term recall is held, to produce the number of convictions for those who had received more than one fixed term recall could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.