The available information is shown in the following table. The table shows the percentage of those sentenced to community sentence by age in the last five years, for non-violent indictable offences. Figures for those previously resident in a London borough are not available, as places of residence are not recorded on the court proceedings database. The table shows those sentenced in the Metropolitan and City of London police force areas.
Age 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 12 91.4 91.0 91.3 92.3 96.9 13 86.6 91.3 90.1 87.3 92.5 14 77.1 82.5 86.5 86.6 86.2 15 71.5 75.4 75.0 77.9 78.0 16 66.1 67.3 68.0 68.9 72.1 17 58.4 55.9 59.5 59.5 59.5 18 25.7 29.3 31.1 27.9 30.3 19 24.1 28.9 28.2 25.5 23.7 1 This includes all indictable offences not included in the violence against the person offence type. Summary offences have not been included as they are not categorised into violent or non-violent offences Notes: 1. These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. 2. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. Source: OMS Analytical Services, Ministry of Justice
The definition of non-violent offences are all those indictable offences not included in the offence type, ‘Violence Against the Person’. Summary offences have not been included as they are not categorised into violent or non-violent offences. These data are presented on the principal offence basis: where an offender has been sentenced for more than one offence the principal offence is the one for which the heaviest sentence was imposed; where the same sentence has been imposed for two or more offences the principal offence is the one for which the statutory maximum is most severe. Data for 2008 will not be available until ‘Sentencing Statistics 2008’ is published.