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 11: One year reconviction frequency rates and one year reconviction rates, by police force: 2010-11 cohort

Police Force of Index Conviction Number of offenders Reconviction rate(2) Reconviction frequency rate(2)
All 44,126 28.4 50.2
Central 2,406 30.7 56.6
Dumfries & Galloway 1,222 28.2 48.9
Fife 2,828 26.9 44.3
Grampian 3,971 29.6 54.6
Lothian & Borders 6,207 26.0 45.9
Northern 2,027 23.4 36.2
Strathclyde 21,822 28.4 49.5
Tayside 3,636 33.9 65.6
Unknown(3) 7 ** **

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. There were seven offenders for which the police force of the index conviction was unknown.

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