Reoffenders
(asked on 29th October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2019 to Question 944 on Reoffenders, how many offenders in each category lived in (a) Wales and (b) England.
The table below shows the number of Serious Further Offence (SFO) notifications – that is, cases of an offender under probation supervision charged with an SFO - received between 1 January 2014 and 31 December 2018, by SFO offence, where the offender was supervised by a probation provider in a) Wales and b) England. This data show the area which was supervising the offender. Some offenders may have moved from Wales to England or England to Wales before the SFO they were charged with committing.
Not all charges for an SFO will result in a conviction. In any year, in about 50% of cases either the charges are dropped before trial, or the offender is acquitted following trial or the offender is convicted of a less serious offence.
2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | ||||||
SFO Offence | E | W | E | W | E | W | E | W | E | W |
Arson with intent to endanger life | 14 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 17 | 3 | 18 | 0 |
Assault by penetration | 22 | 2 | 28 | 2 | 33 | 2 | 35 | 2 | 14 | 1 |
Attempt or conspiracy to commit murder | 44 | 2 | 50 | 4 | 54 | 6 | 81 | 4 | 74 | 5 |
Aggravated Burglary | 22 | 2 | 20 | 2 | 33 | 8 | 50 | 7 | 34 | 1 |
Causing death by dangerous/careless driving/aggravated vehicle taking | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 15 | 1 |
False imprisonment | 11 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 26 | 3 | 12 | 5 |
Firearms offences including possession with intent | 19 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
Kidnapping | 23 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 22 | 0 | 26 | 2 |
Manslaughter | 7 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 13 | 0 |
Murder | 67 | 4 | 63 | 6 | 82 | 4 | 109 | 5 | 126 | 6 |
Offences under the Explosive Substances Act | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Other qualifying sexual offences | 25 | 1 | 36 | 0 | 21 | 5 | 34 | 4 | 18 | 3 |
Other serious violent offence | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Other specified offence causing death | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rape | 161 | 11 | 212 | 5 | 235 | 10 | 229 | 13 | 116 | 14 |
Robbery with firearm | 8 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
Under 13 sexual offences including rape | 26 | 1 | 32 | 2 | 23 | 2 | 28 | 4 | 23 | 0 |
Total | 456 | 25 | 525 | 23 | 579 | 45 | 693 | 47 | 524 | 38 |
- *CRCs were created as part of Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) in June 2014. Therefore data provided for 2014 include cases managed by former Probation Trusts prior to TR.
- The NPS and CRCs are required to complete automatic reviews on any eligible offender who has been charged with (including attempted or conspiracy to commit offences): murder manslaughter, other specified offences causing death, rape or assault by penetration, or a sexual offence against a child under 13 years of age.
- Conditional reviews are completed when an offender has been assessed as high risk of harm during the current sentence (NPS only) or where no risk assessment has been completed.
- Not all SFO notifications result in the completion of a reviews as charges can be reduced or dropped. Not every offender charged with a SFO is convicted.
- The data represents SFO charges and not a unique count of offenders.
- Data Sources and Quality. We have drawn these figures from administrative IT systems which, as with some large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.