Offenders Chris Grayling To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 4 February 2010, Official Report, column 501W, on offenders, how many (a) adult and (b) juvenile offenders there were in each category. Claire Ward Figures for number of (a) adult and (b) juvenile offenders sentenced for indictable offences in England and Wales between 2000 and 2008 with no previous convictions or cautions are presented in the following table. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Adult |Juvenile | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |All sentenced offenders2|First time offenders3|Percentage of first time offenders|All sentenced offenders2|First time offenders3|Percentage of first time offenders| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2000 |269,637 |32,950 |12.2|52,269|6,659|12.7| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2001 |267,979 |31,929 |11.9|52,844|6,504|12.3| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2002 |283,444 |31,240 |11.0|52,538|6,395|12.2| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2003 |288,261 |30,882 |10.7|49,998|5,885|11.8| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2004 |271,717 |30,846 |11.4|51,138|6,162|12.0| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2005 |255,460 |29,531 |11.6|52,775|6,142|11.6| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2006 |250,384 |28,436 |11.4|52,942|5,764|10.9| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2007 |258,424 |28,309 |11.0|55,307|5,637|10.2| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2008 |274,657 |28,687 |10.4|50,835|5,148|10.1| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 Excluding offenders whose age at sentence was not recorded on the PNC.2 Counts of person sentenced during the year. An offender may be counted more than once if he or she has been sentenced more than once during the year.3 Offenders who have never been cautioned or convicted previously.| | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These figures are taken from Table 6.4 of ‘Sentencing Statistics 2008’ which was published on 28 January 2010 and can be found at: http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/sentencingannual.htm The figures have been drawn from the police's administrative IT system, the police national computer, which, as with any large scale recording system, is subject to possible errors with data entry and processing. The figures are provisional and subject to change as more information is recorded by the police.