PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Reoffenders: Females (24 October 2017)
Question Asked
Asked by:
Chris Elmore (Labour)
Answer
The graph attached shows the proven reoffending data for adult females released from custody, January 2010 to December 2015.
As it shows, reconviction rates for women leaving prison have remained relatively stable across this period.
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1. 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. | |||||||||
2. A proven reoffence is defined as any offence committed in a one year follow-up period that leads to a court conviction, caution, reprimand or warning in the one year follow-up or within a further six month waiting period to allow the offence to be proven in court. | |||||||||
3. Number of offenders in each disposal category do not sum to the total number of offenders. This is due to a difference in methodology to provide a realistic and relevant view of proven reoffending by disposal type. The first event within each disposal is taken as the start point. Therefore, some offenders will appear in more than one disposal category. | |||||||||
4. From October 2015 onwards, reoffending data are collected using different data sources to previous quarters. Therefore, users should be cautious when making any comparison between the October to December 2015 cohort and earlier cohorts. 5. Data is based on a new measure of proven reoffending that was published on 26 October 2017 which aligns with the first ever published final figures for Payment by Results, so these figures should not be compared to any previous reoffending figures. | |||||||||
Answered by:
Mr Sam Gyimah (Liberal Democrat)
1 November 2017
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