To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of (a) men and (b) women serving community sentences in the last two years breached the terms of their sentence. [93303]
The information requested for England and Wales for the years 2000 and 2001 is contained in the table.Data for 2002 is not yet available.
Offenders whose breaches1 of original community sentence or order were proved to the satisfaction of the court by type of sentence or order breached and the proportion breaching original orders—England and Wales
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Numbers and percentages
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2000
| 2001
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Male
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| Female
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Number of offenders sentenced
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Community rehabilitation order2 | 44,271 | 12,188 | 56,459 | 46,295 | 12,022 | 58,497 | |||||||
Supervision order | 9,711 | 1,845 | 11,556 | 9,330 | 1,753 | 11,083 | |||||||
Community punishment order2 | 44,517 | 5,466 | 49,983 | 44,052 | 5,712 | 49,764 | |||||||
Attendance centre order | 6,459 | 582 | 7,041 | 5,364 | 460 | 5,824 | |||||||
Community punishment and rehabilitation order2 | 17,300 | 1,941 | 19,241 | 13,199 | 1,463 | 14,662 | |||||||
Curfew order | 2,325 | 272 | 2,597 | 3,467 | 396 | 3,863 | |||||||
Reparation order | 3,382 | 602 | 3,984 | 6,746 | 1,229 | 7,975 | |||||||
Action plan order | 3,678 | 678 | 4,356 | 7,229 | 1,421 | 8,650 | |||||||
Drug treatment and testing order | 270 | 51 | 321 | 3,566 | 663 | 4,229 | |||||||
Total community sentences | 131,913 | 23,625 | 155,538 | 139,878 | 25,119 | 164,997 | |||||||
Offenders breaching orders as a percentage of offenders sentenced 3
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Community rehabilitation order2 | 24 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 | |||||||
Supervision order | 7 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 10 | |||||||
Community punishment order2 | 36 | 26 | 35 | 33 | 24 | 32 | |||||||
Attendance centre order | 18 | 20 | 19 | 15 | 20 | 15 | |||||||
Community punishment and rehabilitation order2 | 36 | 31 | 35 | 41 | 37 | 41 | |||||||
Curfew order | 22 | 28 | 23 | 23 | 26 | 24 | |||||||
Reparation order | 4— | 4— | 4— | 4— | 4— | 4— | |||||||
Action plan order | 4— | 4— | 4— | 4— | 4— | 4— | |||||||
Drug treatment and testing order | 4— | 4— | 4— | 4— | 4— | 4— | |||||||
Total community sentences | 28 | 23 | 27 | 28 | 23 | 27 | |||||||
1 Breaches cover the commission of further offences or the breaking of other conditions laid down in the orders. Examples of such "other conditions" include, among other things: Requirements as to residence; to participate in or refrain from specified activities; attendance at probation centre; to undergo treatment for medical condition or drug/alcohol dependency. | |||||||||||||
2 New names for these community sentences came into force in April 2001. Community rehabilitation order was previously probation order, community punishment order was previously community service order and community punishment and rehabilitation order was previously combination order. | |||||||||||||
3 An approximation to the breach rate because offenders breaching in one year may have been given the sentence or order in an earlier year. The average of the number of sentences for the year indicated and in the previous year has been used as the denominator to provide a better estimate. | 4 not available. (These orders have not been available for a sufficient length of time for a breach rate to be calculated. Such orders have also been excluded from the breach rate for 'Total Community Sentences'). |