Reoffending patterns This chapter examines the level and type of reoffending by index offenders in the five years after their index sentence. Factors associated with reoffending (age, gender, and prior offences) are examined in Chapter 6. In this study, a ‘reoffending sentence event’ is a sentence or sentences imposed in a case for an offence or offences that were committed in the five years after the index sentence (see further Appendix A). What percentage of offenders reoffended? Five-year cumulative reoffending rate In the five years after the index sentence, just over half of the index offenders were sentenced for a further offence (997 or 52.5%). This was higher than the five-year reoffending rate for the general offender population sentenced in (37.2%), suggesting that those who contravened intervention orders were more likely to reoffend than the general offender population (Figure 13). Most reoffending took in the first three years after the index sentence. The 40.3% cumulative reoffending rate after three years represented over of the five-year reoffending rate. Figure 13: Comparison of cumulative reoffending rate for index offenders (in the five years following the index sentence in 2009–10) and cumulative reoffending rate for the general offender population (in the five years following sentence in 2004–05) Years after index Percentage of group that reoffended event offenders, 2009-10 (n = General offenders, 2004-05 (n = 1,898) 63,366) 1 11.9% 9.6% 2 29.8% 21.3% 3 40.3% 28.3% 4 48.2% 33.5% 5 52.5% 37.2% Limitations of using subsequent sentences to gauge reoffending As this analysis is limited to subsequent sentence events, it captures some, but not all, reoffending by index offenders. The data is limited to subsequent offences of which the index offender has been found guilty and for which the court has imposed a sentence (the data also includes cases in which the index offender has
Reoffending patterns This chapter examines the level and type of reoffending by index offenders in the five years after their index sentence. Factors associated with reoffending (age, gender, and prior offences) are examined in Chapter 6. In this study, a ‘reoffending sentence event’ is a sentence or sentences imposed in a case for an offence or offences that were committed in the five years after the index sentence (see further Appendix A). What percentage of offenders reoffended? Five-year cumulative reoffending rate In the five years after the index sentence, just over half of the index offenders were sentenced for a further offence (997 or 52.5%). This was higher than the five-year reoffending rate for the general offender population sentenced in (37.2%), suggesting that those who contravened intervention orders were more likely to reoffend than the general offender population (Figure 13). Most reoffending took in the first three years after the index sentence. The 40.3% cumulative reoffending rate after three years represented over of the five-year reoffending rate. Figure 13: Comparison of cumulative reoffending rate for index offenders (in the five years following the index sentence in 2009–10) and cumulative reoffending rate for the general offender population (in the five years following sentence in 2004–05) Years after index event Percentage of group that reoffended offenders, 2009-10 (n = 1,898) General offenders, 2004-05 (n = 63,366) 1 11.9% 9.6% 2 29.8% 21.3% 3 40.3% 28.3% 4 48.2% 33.5% 5 52.5% 37.2% Limitations of using subsequent sentences to gauge reoffending As this analysis is limited to subsequent sentence events, it captures some, but not all, reoffending by index offenders. The data is limited to subsequent offences of which the index offender has been found guilty and for which the court has imposed a sentence (the data also includes cases in which the index offender has
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