130 index offenders had dangerous/drink/drug driving offences but no assault/threat offences. Of the three groups, the group with both dangerous/drink/drug driving and assault/threat had the highest reoffending rate (75.8%). This group also had the highest rate of reoffending with an assault/threat offence (43.9%), followed by the group with assault/threat offences but no dangerous/drink/drug driving offences (32.1%) and the group with dangerous/drink/drug driving offences but no assault/threat offences (26.2%). It is not possible to draw definitive causal between dangerous driving and reoffending (either generally or with specific offence types such as contravention or assault). Nonetheless, the finding that the general and assault/threat reoffending rates were higher if offenders had a history of dangerous driving as well as assault/threat offences makes it difficult to rule out prior road safety offences as irrelevant in assessing future risk. Therefore, such offences should not be readily dismissed as irrelevant when sentencing people who have breached intervention orders.
130 index offenders had dangerous/drink/drug driving offences but no assault/threat offences. Of the three groups, the group with both dangerous/drink/drug driving and assault/threat had the highest reoffending rate (75.8%). This group also had the highest rate of reoffending with an assault/threat offence (43.9%), followed by the group with assault/threat offences but no dangerous/drink/drug driving offences (32.1%) and the group with dangerous/drink/drug driving offences but no assault/threat offences (26.2%). It is not possible to draw definitive causal between dangerous driving and reoffending (either generally or with specific offence types such as contravention or assault). Nonetheless, the finding that the general and assault/threat reoffending rates were higher if offenders had a history of dangerous driving as well as assault/threat offences makes it difficult to rule out prior road safety offences as irrelevant in assessing future risk. Therefore, such offences should not be readily dismissed as irrelevant when sentencing people who have breached intervention orders.
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