Reconviction Rates in Scotland: 2009-10 Offender Cohort
Analysis of one year reconviction rates for the cohort of offenders released from a custodial sentence or receiving a non-custodial disposal in 2009-10
Table 6 One year reconviction frequency rates and one year reconviction rates, by disposal
| Discharged from custody |
Number of offenders |
Reconviction rate2 |
Reconviction frequency rate2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-98 | 6,123 | 48.4 | 103.6 |
| 1998-99 | 5,817 | 49.1 | 109.1 |
| 1999-00 | 5,741 | 46.3 | 99.2 |
| 2000-01 | 5,576 | 47.4 | 99.6 |
| 2001-02 | 5,942 | 48.0 | 105.7 |
| 2002-03 | 6,011 | 49.9 | 112.6 |
| 2003-04 | 5,873 | 50.2 | 111.0 |
| 2004-05 | 6,109 | 48.0 | 105.9 |
| 2005-06 | 6,218 | 47.5 | 103.6 |
| 2006-07 | 6,889 | 48.7 | 106.0 |
| 2007-08 | 7,033 | 47.0 | 100.7 |
| 2008-09 | 7,395 | 47.0 | 98.0 |
| 2009-10 | 7,403 | 45.7 | 91.8 |
| Community Service Order |
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| 1997-98 | 3,043 | 32.0 | 59.0 |
| 1998-99 | 2,752 | 31.1 | 55.7 |
| 1999-00 | 2,494 | 28.8 | 49.6 |
| 2000-01 | 2,510 | 29.4 | 51.9 |
| 2001-02 | 2,505 | 29.2 | 51.4 |
| 2002-03 | 2,700 | 29.0 | 51.0 |
| 2003-04 | 2,513 | 27.7 | 47.0 |
| 2004-05 | 2,795 | 30.4 | 53.4 |
| 2005-06 | 3,271 | 29.8 | 51.2 |
| 2006-07 | 3,296 | 30.0 | 50.2 |
| 2007-08 | 3,500 | 28.1 | 46.5 |
| 2008-09 | 3,727 | 26.9 | 43.7 |
| 2009-10 | 3,624 | 23.9 | 37.3 |
| Probation Order |
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| 1997-98 | 3,041 | 47.2 | 111.8 |
| 1998-99 | 3,198 | 48.2 | 115.9 |
| 1999-00 | 3,101 | 46.3 | 101.0 |
| 2000-01 | 3,140 | 46.7 | 106.0 |
| 2001-02 | 3,589 | 48.4 | 110.8 |
| 2002-03 | 3,864 | 49.0 | 107.9 |
| 2003-04 | 3,910 | 46.7 | 99.7 |
| 2004-05 | 4,256 | 46.5 | 98.1 |
| 2005-06 | 4,488 | 45.3 | 92.8 |
| 2006-07 | 4,314 | 44.7 | 90.5 |
| 2007-08 | 4,602 | 43.2 | 84.3 |
| 2008-09 | 5,123 | 44.5 | 89.8 |
| 2009-10 | 5,009 | 39.7 | 75.5 |
| Restriction of Liberty Order3 |
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| 1997-98 | 0 | - | - |
| 1998-99 | 24 | 58.3 | 154.2 |
| 1999-00 | 50 | 66.0 | 176.0 |
| 2000-01 | 54 | 59.3 | 159.3 |
| 2001-02 | 54 | 70.4 | 155.6 |
| 2002-03 | 212 | 53.3 | 117.5 |
| 2003-04 | 353 | 57.8 | 125.5 |
| 2004-05 | 413 | 57.4 | 119.9 |
| 2005-06 | 486 | 52.1 | 115.8 |
| 2006-07 | 510 | 51.2 | 105.1 |
| 2007-08 | 533 | 50.7 | 102.3 |
| 2008-09 | 567 | 46.7 | 94.2 |
| 2009-10 | 488 | 48.8 | 92.2 |
| Drug Treatment and testing Order4 |
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| 1997-98 | 0 | - | - |
| 1998-99 | 0 | - | - |
| 1999-00 | 1 | - | - |
| 2000-01 | 36 | 58.3 | 130.6 |
| 2001-02 | 95 | 74.7 | 211.6 |
| 2002-03 | 143 | 75.5 | 240.6 |
| 2003-04 | 201 | 79.1 | 221.4 |
| 2004-05 | 231 | 78.4 | 219.9 |
| 2005-06 | 275 | 69.1 | 184.0 |
| 2006-07 | 314 | 73.9 | 198.1 |
| 2007-08 | 326 | 70.9 | 194.5 |
| 2008-09 | 361 | 67.6 | 175.6 |
| 2009-10 | 363 | 62.8 | 149.6 |
| Monetary disposal |
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| 1997-98 | 32,896 | 29.5 | 54.2 |
| 1998-99 | 29,553 | 29.4 | 53.3 |
| 1999-00 | 25,584 | 28.9 | 51.8 |
| 2000-01 | 23,816 | 28.9 | 50.9 |
| 2001-02 | 24,864 | 29.0 | 52.1 |
| 2002-03 | 24,846 | 29.1 | 51.7 |
| 2003-04 | 26,685 | 29.5 | 51.5 |
| 2004-05 | 27,458 | 29.2 | 50.4 |
| 2005-06 | 27,030 | 29.3 | 49.5 |
| 2006-07 | 28,496 | 29.0 | 48.6 |
| 2007-08 | 27,493 | 27.6 | 46.2 |
| 2008-09 | 22,837 | 26.7 | 46.9 |
| 2009-10 | 20,961 | 26.2 | 43.7 |
| Other disposal |
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| 1997-98 | 8,348 | 23.0 | 42.3 |
| 1998-99 | 7,789 | 21.5 | 38.5 |
| 1999-00 | 7,231 | 21.7 | 36.6 |
| 2000-01 | 6,437 | 22.2 | 37.1 |
| 2001-02 | 6,596 | 22.5 | 39.6 |
| 2002-03 | 7,078 | 23.0 | 40.7 |
| 2003-04 | 7,394 | 22.1 | 38.9 |
| 2004-05 | 8,023 | 22.3 | 39.2 |
| 2005-06 | 8,477 | 23.7 | 40.7 |
| 2006-07 | 9,429 | 23.6 | 41.7 |
| 2007-08 | 9,497 | 23.2 | 40.7 |
| 2008-09 | 9,602 | 23.5 | 43.5 |
| 2009-10 | 9,488 | 21.4 | 36.8 |
1. The number of offenders that are reconvicted, and the number of reconvictions, are omitted from the bulletin for clarity. They are included in the additional datasets which accompany this bulletin.
2. The definition of reconviction frequency rate and reconviction rate is described in section 12.2.1
3. Restriction of Liberty Orders were not available nationally until 2002.
4. DTTOs were rolled out to Glasgow, Fife and Aberdeen between 1999 and 2002, Edinburgh, Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and Tayside in 2002-03 and has been available to almost every court in Scotland since 2005-06.
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