Young Offenders: Reoffenders
(asked on 11th July 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many juveniles convicted of serious offences have reoffended in each of the last three financial years.
One year proven reoffending for juveniles cautioned, convicted at court for a non-custodial sentence or released from custody for a serious offence in financial years 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14.
| Apr 2011 to Mar 2012 | Apr 2012 to Mar 2013 | Apr 2013 to Mar 2014 |
Juvenile offenders with a serious index offence |
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Proportion of offenders who reoffend (%) | 39.4 | 39.9 | 39.6 |
Number of reoffenders | 2,827 | 2,272 | 1,783 |
Number of offenders in cohort | 7,172 | 5,693 | 4,501 |
The seriousness definition used can be found in Annex A of the following link:
Data Sources
These figures have been derived from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing. A certain proportion of offenders who could not be matched to the Police National Computer (PNC) are excluded from the offender cohort. Therefore, these numbers do not represent all proven offenders.