Table 1 shows the one year adult reoffending rates for offenders in England and Wales released from custody in the first quarter (1 January to 31 March) of the years 2000 to 2007, who commenced a court order under probation supervision, or who were discharged from a custodial sentence given for a drug-related offence. The table shows the proportion of offenders who committed at least one further offence and the frequency of offences per 100 offenders. It also shows reoffending rates for the whole cohort.
Number of offenders Actual reoffending rate (Percentage) Number of offences per 100 offenders Drug-related offences 2000 Q1 3,045 31.1 92.9 2002 Q1 2,802 32.3 119.7 2003 Q1 2,822 33.2 117.4 2004 Q1 2,793 29.4 102.4 2005 Q1 2,591 31.4 100.5 2006 Q1 3,353 28.7 86.8 2007 Q1 3,390 30.6 93.1 All offences 2000 Q1 42,734 43.0 185.0 2002 Q1 43,247 45.5 212.7 2003 Q1 44,095 45.4 205.3 2004 Q1 46,532 42.9 181.3 2005 Q1 43,429 41.2 165.7 2006 Q1 50,281 38.6 144.0 2007Q1 50,085 39.0 147.3 Notes: 1. Data for 2001 are unavailable due to problems with archived data. 2. Any offences committed in the one-year follow up period are not necessarily of the same offence type as the index.
Please note that drug-related offences includes offences for importing and exporting drugs, for production and supply of drugs, and for drugs possession and small scale supply. There may be a range of offences that have a drug-related element which are not included in these data, but are contained within another offence group.
The table does not show reoffending rates for all drug-related crime as offenders only enter the cohort when they were convicted for their drug-related offence.
Further information on the one-year rates of reoffending can be found at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/reoffendingof adults.htm
The figures for reoffences include offences of all types. An offender whose original offence was drug-related and who reoffended, may not have committed any more drug-related offences.