§ Mr. SteinbergTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of offenders were convicted of further offences during the two year period after they have been released from prison in each of the last five years. [143912]
§ Mr. BoatengTwo-year reconviction rates for standard list offences following release from prison are shown in the table. The rates are based on a sample of all discharges from prison each year. The 1997 rate is based on a sample of discharges during the first quarter of the year.
About one percentage point of the increase in the rate between 1993 and 1994 can be accounted for by the addition of a number of offences to the standard list. The effect of this change in offence coverage was a little more pronounced on the rate for the 1995 and 1996 data (around 1.4 and 1.9 percentage points respectively).
Prisoners reconvicted for standard list offences by year of discharge within two years of discharge from prison Year of discharge Percentage reconvicted 1993 53 1994 56 1995 58 1996 57 19971 57 11st quarter
Number of offences Offences per 100,000 population Number of arrests Arrests per 100,000 population England Homicides 730 1.5 — — Violence against the person (excluding homicide) 542,384 1,096 — — Theft and handling 2,124,893 4,293 — — Robberies 83,368 168 — — Sexual Offences 36,043 73 — — Arrests — — 11,100,542 12,344 Wales Homicides 35 1.2 — — Violence against the person (excluding homicide) 37,887 1,292 — — Theft and handling 98,727 3,366 — — Robberies 909 31 — — Sexual Offences 1,749 60 — — Arrests — — 253,810 23,176 1Missing data from Durham, Humberside and Staffordshire 2Missing data from South Wales