(2) what the average adult re-offending rate was for female prisoners two years after release in the latest period for which figures are available.
Table 1 shows the one year reoffending rates for offenders leaving custody in the first quarter of the years 2000 to 2006, by gender (data for 2001 are unavailable due to problems with archived data for community sentences). The table shows the proportion of offenders that committed at least one further offence and the number of further offences committed per 100 offenders.
Number of offenders Proportion of offenders offending (one year) Number of offences per 100 offenders (one year) Male 2000 Q1 14,543 51.6 244.1 2002 Q1 14,385 55.0 283.8 2003 Q1 13,202 53.9 276.8 2004 Q1 14,359 51.8 249.9 2005 Q1 13,353 49.1 227.0 2006 Q1 13,178 46.6 207.5 Female 2000 Q1 1,184 48.0 262.5 2002 Q1 1,193 55.8 340.9 2003 Q1 1,156 54.1 305.1 2004 Q1 1,402 53.7 285.2 2005 Q1 1,242 49.1 244.8 2006 Q1 1,202 45.0 218.6
Two year reoffending rates by gender are available for the 2000 to 2005 cohorts. For these cohorts, the only figures available are the proportion of offenders who committed a further offence within two years. These figures are shown in Table 2.
Number of offenders Proportion of offenders offending (two year) Male 2000 Q1 15,268 65.4 2002 Q1 14,665 67.7 2003 Q1 14,095 66.1 2004 Q1 14,972 64.7 2005 Q1 13,501 62.4 Female 2000 Q1 1,259 58.2 2002 Q1 1,222 64.6 2003 Q1 1,199 63.4 2004 Q1 1,408 64.3 2005 Q1 1,203 59.4
It should be noted that comparisons between the one and two year rates should be interpreted with caution. This is due to a slight improvement in the method used to count offenders released from custody (or starting court orders under probation supervision) when we moved to measuring reoffending over one year rather than two.
Further information on the one year rates of reoffending can be found in:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/reoffendingofadults.htm.
Further information on the two year rates can be found in:
http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs05/hosb2505.pdf