Reoffenders
(asked on 24th June 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders had (a) between 15 and 49, (b) between 50 and 99 and (c) 100 or more convictions in the last 12 months.
The proportion of offenders with previous convictions has been falling over recent years but it is still too high which is why we have reformed the way offenders are managed in the community. We are now enabling the voluntary, public and private sector to help offenders turn away from crime. Our probation reforms also ensure that, for the first time in recent history, those sentenced to less than 12 months in custody receive support on release.
Table 1: Number of offenders1 convicted of any offence2,3 by number of previous4 convictions in England and Wales, 2014 |
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| Between 15 and 49 previous convictions | Between 50 and 99 previous convictions | 100 or more previous convictions | Total number of offenders | |
2014 | Number | 112,751 | 14,368 | 1,926 | 489,458 |
% | 23.04 | 2.94 | 0.39 | - | |
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Ministry of Justice, Police National Computer (PNC) |
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1. Figures are based on counting the number of occasions an offender was convicted of an offence in England and Wales in 2014. This means an offender can appear more than once in the totals for each year if the offender was convicted on multiple occasions in that year. | |||||
2. Indictable offences including triable either-way offences. | |||||
3. Recordable summary offences are defined as offences that can attract a custodial sentence plus some additional offences defined in legislation. A range of less serious summary offences, such as TV licence evasion and many motoring offences are not recorded on the PNC. Therefore these figures are an undercount of the true number of cautions and convictions given for these types of offences. | |||||
4. Figures are based on counting the number of occasions on which offenders have previously received a conviction for any offence recorded on the Police National Computer, including some offences committed outside of England and Wales. Where there were multiple offences on the same occasion, only the primary offence as recorded on the Police National Computer would be counted. | |||||
5. All data have been taken from the MoJ extract of the Police National Computer. This includes details of all convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings given for recordable offences (see www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1139/schedule/made for definition). It is therefore possible that some offenders presented in the table above have previously also received convictions for offences not recorded on the PNC. | |||||