Reconviction Rates in Scotland: 2010-11 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 2010-11
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 | 6,119 | 48.4 | 103.6 |
| 1998-99 | 5,821 | 49.1 | 109.0 |
| 1999-00 | 5,744 | 46.3 | 99.2 |
| 2000-01 | 5,573 | 47.4 | 99.7 |
| 2001-02 | 5,950 | 47.9 | 105.7 |
| 2002-03 | 6,011 | 49.9 | 112.5 |
| 2003-04 | 5,885 | 50.1 | 110.8 |
| 2004-05 | 6,127 | 47.9 | 105.6 |
| 2005-06 | 6,240 | 47.4 | 103.2 |
| 2006-07 | 6,909 | 48.5 | 105.7 |
| 2007-08 | 7,060 | 46.8 | 100.4 |
| 2008-09 | 7,403 | 47.0 | 98.3 |
| 2009-10 | 7,433 | 45.8 | 93.3 |
| 2010-11 | 7,273 | 43.5 | 84.0 |
| Community Sentence (CPO, CSO, PO)3 | |||
| 1997-98 | 6,084 | 39.6 | 85.4 |
| 1998-99 | 5,950 | 40.3 | 88.0 |
| 1999-00 | 5,597 | 38.5 | 78.1 |
| 2000-01 | 5,651 | 39.0 | 82.0 |
| 2001-02 | 6,093 | 40.5 | 86.4 |
| 2002-03 | 6,570 | 40.7 | 84.6 |
| 2003-04 | 6,466 | 39.0 | 78.5 |
| 2004-05 | 7,119 | 39.8 | 79.6 |
| 2005-06 | 7,808 | 38.6 | 74.8 |
| 2006-07 | 7,643 | 38.2 | 72.8 |
| 2007-08 | 8,135 | 36.6 | 67.8 |
| 2008-09 | 8,878 | 37.1 | 70.6 |
| 2009-10 | 8,680 | 33.6 | 61.6 |
| 2010-11 | 8,340 | 31.6 | 54.9 |
| Restriction of Liberty Order4 | |||
| 1997-98 | 0 | - | - |
| 1998-99 | 24 | 58.3 | 154.2 |
| 1999-00 | 50 | 66.0 | 176.0 |
| 2000-01 | 55 | 60.0 | 161.8 |
| 2001-02 | 54 | 70.4 | 155.6 |
| 2002-03 | 212 | 53.3 | 117.5 |
| 2003-04 | 353 | 57.8 | 125.5 |
| 2004-05 | 414 | 57.2 | 119.6 |
| 2005-06 | 486 | 52.1 | 115.8 |
| 2006-07 | 510 | 51.2 | 105.1 |
| 2007-08 | 533 | 50.7 | 103.0 |
| 2008-09 | 567 | 46.9 | 94.4 |
| 2009-10 | 489 | 49.3 | 95.9 |
| 2010-11 | 441 | 42.2 | 76.4 |
| Drug Treatment and testing Order5 | |||
| 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 | 202 | 78.7 | 220.3 |
| 2004-05 | 231 | 78.4 | 219.9 |
| 2005-06 | 268 | 70.1 | 188.1 |
| 2006-07 | 303 | 75.2 | 202.6 |
| 2007-08 | 326 | 70.9 | 194.5 |
| 2008-09 | 361 | 67.6 | 176.7 |
| 2009-10 | 362 | 65.5 | 166.3 |
| 2010-11 | 375 | 64.8 | 146.9 |
| Monetary disposal | |||
| 1997-98 | 32,895 | 29.5 | 54.2 |
| 1998-99 | 29,559 | 29.4 | 53.3 |
| 1999-00 | 25,603 | 28.9 | 51.7 |
| 2000-01 | 23,817 | 28.9 | 50.9 |
| 2001-02 | 24,863 | 29.0 | 52.1 |
| 2002-03 | 24,850 | 29.1 | 51.7 |
| 2003-04 | 26,688 | 29.5 | 51.4 |
| 2004-05 | 27,460 | 29.2 | 50.3 |
| 2005-06 | 27,034 | 29.3 | 49.5 |
| 2006-07 | 28,497 | 29.0 | 48.6 |
| 2007-08 | 27,492 | 27.6 | 46.3 |
| 2008-09 | 22,840 | 26.7 | 47.1 |
| 2009-10 | 20,961 | 26.5 | 44.9 |
| 2010-11 | 18,328 | 24.0 | 39.8 |
| Other disposal6 | |||
| 1997-98 | 8,348 | 23.0 | 42.3 |
| 1998-99 | 7,790 | 21.5 | 38.5 |
| 1999-00 | 7,234 | 21.7 | 36.6 |
| 2000-01 | 6,436 | 22.2 | 37.0 |
| 2001-02 | 6,596 | 22.5 | 39.6 |
| 2002-03 | 7,077 | 23.0 | 40.7 |
| 2003-04 | 7,392 | 22.1 | 38.9 |
| 2004-05 | 8,017 | 22.3 | 39.2 |
| 2005-06 | 8,486 | 23.8 | 40.7 |
| 2006-07 | 9,438 | 23.6 | 41.7 |
| 2007-08 | 9,497 | 23.2 | 40.7 |
| 2008-09 | 9,603 | 23.5 | 43.8 |
| 2009-10 | 9,489 | 21.9 | 38.2 |
| 2010-11 | 9,369 | 20.4 | 35.2 |
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. Community Sentence refers to Community Service Orders, Probation Orders and Community Payback Orders (CPOs). CPOs were introduced by the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 and came into effect from 1 February 2011. The CPO replaces provisions for Community Service Orders, Probation Orders and Supervised Attendance Orders.
4. Restriction of Liberty Orders were not available nationally until 2002.
5. 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.
6. In 2010-11 this includes 127 Supervised Attendance Orders
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