Terrorism: Sentencing
(asked on 6th February 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average prison sentence served was for people convicted of terrorist offences in the last 10 years.
Please find below a table showing the requested information.
Table 1: Average (mean and median) time served (in months; including time spent on remand) in prison for those released from a 'terrorism legislation'(1) offence; 2009 to 2018
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015(2) | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
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Mean time served (months) | 23.0 | 36.3 | 46.6 | 69.0 | 35.1 | 33.7 | 48.0 | 11.6 | 19.6 | 16.9 | 22.7 |
Median time served (months) | 24.0 | 42.0 | 42.0 | 69.0 | 27.4 | 33.7 | 48.0 | 7.5 | 9.7 | 11.3 | 17.9 |
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Notes |
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(1) For data from 2009 to 2015, the prison releases of offenders with a corresponding 'PREVENTION OF TERRORISM ACT' offence have been included. |
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(2) In 2015 we made significant changes to our data source and processing. Following these changes, we are able to extract much more detailed offence information. Data for 2015 has been presented twice in the above table, one using the 'old data' processing and once under the 'new data' processing - this has been done to provide an indication of the magniutude of the break in series. |
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Data sources and quality |
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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. |
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Source: PQ 13457 (Ministry of Justice; DASD-JSAS) |
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