NCJ Number
209889
Date Published
December 2004
Length
17 pages
Annotation
This report presents reconviction rates for British juvenile offenders between January and March 2001, providing a measure of the proportion of juveniles reconvicted within 1 year of their original conviction, reprimand, or final warning.
Abstract
These data are relevant to the goals set in the Home Office's Public Service Agreement (PSA) 10, which specifies a 5-percent reduction in reconviction rates for juveniles by 2004 compared with the "predicted" rate, based on 1997 rates. The current report indicates that the overall reconviction rate within 12 months for juveniles processed in the first quarter of 2001 was 26.4 percent, compared with an "adjusted predicted" rate of 34.1 percent. This 7.7 percentage point decline constitutes a 22.5-percent reduction from the "adjusted predicted" reconviction rate. This is the second cohort to have exceeded the PSA 10 5-percent target. The previous cohort (July 2000) showed a reduction of 14.6 percent. The "adjusted predicted" rate is based on the reconviction rates of offenders dealt with in the first half of 1997. It indicates what the reconviction rate would have been for offenders dealt with in 2001, taking into account any changes in the mix of offenders and the speedier processing of juveniles in 2001. The proportion of males (79.1 percent) and females (20.9 percent) processed in 2001 was the same as in 1997. Of the offenders dealt with in the first quarter of 2001, 61.7 percent were first-time offenders, approximately the same as in the 1997 sample. 11 tables, 1 figure, and appended supplementary data