Reconviction Rates in Scotland: 2010-11 Offender Cohort

1 Introduction

1.1 This publication provides analyses of one year reconviction rates and one year reconviction frequency rates¹ for the cohort of offenders released from a custodial sentence or receiving a non-custodial disposal in 2010-11, including non-court disposals² .

Chart 1 Reconviction frequency rates and reconviction rates: 2010-11

1.2 The one year reconviction rate has fallen by 2.1 percentage points, from 30.5 for the 2009-10 cohort to 28.4 per cent for the 2010-11 cohort. The reconviction frequency rate has fallen by 10 per cent, from 55.6 for the 2009-10 cohort to 50.2 for the 2010-11 cohort³ (Chart 1 and Table 1).