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<p>This Government is tackling the causes of reoffending to make our streets safer.
We are investing in probation services and new initiatives to reduce reoffending and
beat crime.</p><p>The Prisons Strategy White Paper, published in December 2021, sets
out our ambitious plans to reduce reoffending. We will spend £200 million a year by
2024/25 to improve prison leavers’ access to accommodation, employment support and
substance misuse treatment, and on further measures for early intervention to tackle
youth offending. This builds on £70 million of investment in 2021 to tackle drivers
of reoffending.</p><p>Our measures are working. Overall proven reoffending has decreased
from 30.9% in 2009/10 to 25.6% in 2019/20. The reoffending rates for index offences
of robbery, possession of weapons, criminal damage and arson, and sexual and drug
offences have all fallen between 2009/10 and 2019/20.</p><p>The proportion of individuals
(adults and juveniles) released from custody who subsequently went on to reoffend
over a one-year follow-up period are presented in the table below. The figures are
broken down by index offence and ethnicity.</p><p><strong>Table 1: Overall proven
reoffending data for offenders released from custody, by index offence and ethnicity,
April 2019 to March 2020 annual offender cohort </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Index
offence</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of offenders who reoffend (%)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Violence
against the person</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>36.5%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>38.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black</p></td><td><p>29.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian</p></td><td><p>29.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>20.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not
recorded</p></td><td><p>24.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sexual</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10.9%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>10.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black</p></td><td><p>18.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian</p></td><td><p>9.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>14.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not
recorded</p></td><td><p>4.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Robbery</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>26.1%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>26.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black</p></td><td><p>26.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian</p></td><td><p>25.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not
recorded</p></td><td><p>20.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Theft</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>63.4%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>63.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black</p></td><td><p>64.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian</p></td><td><p>55.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>45.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not
recorded</p></td><td><p>56.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Criminal damage and
arson</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>24.5%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>24.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not
recorded</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Drug</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>21.0%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>21.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black</p></td><td><p>22.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian</p></td><td><p>19.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>10.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not
recorded</p></td><td><p>13.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Possession of weapons</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>42.2%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>43.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black</p></td><td><p>39.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian</p></td><td><p>38.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>39.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not
recorded</p></td><td><p>32.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Public order</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>56.1%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>57.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black</p></td><td><p>51.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian</p></td><td><p>49.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not
recorded</p></td><td><p>47.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Miscellaneous crimes
against society</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>27.9%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>30.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black</p></td><td><p>26.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian</p></td><td><p>18.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>6.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not
recorded</p></td><td><p>15.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Fraud</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>31.0%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>35.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black</p></td><td><p>25.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian</p></td><td><p>15.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not
recorded</p></td><td><p>7.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Summary non-motoring</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>56.9%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>58.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black</p></td><td><p>51.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian</p></td><td><p>46.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not
recorded</p></td><td><p>44.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Summary motoring</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>36.0%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>37.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black</p></td><td><p>30.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian</p></td><td><p>29.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not
recorded</p></td><td><p>20.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Other</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not
recorded</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>42.2%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>44.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black</p></td><td><p>36.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian</p></td><td><p>30.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>23.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not
recorded</p></td><td><p>28.3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:
</strong></p><ol><li>Annual figures are produced by aggregating the four preceding
3-monthly cohorts. Please note that this may result in a single offender being included
in the annual cohort more than once.</li><li>Proven reoffences are measured over a
one-year follow-up period and a further six-month waiting period to allow for offences
to be proven in court. It is worth noting that the reoffending follow-up and waiting
periods for the April 2019 to March 2020 annual offender cohort overlaps, to varying
degrees, with the first, second and third national lockdowns due as a result of the
COVID19 pandemic. Due to this, figures relating to this cohort period should be interpreted
with caution.</li><li>Index offence refers to the proven offence that led to an offender
being included in the cohort.</li><li>Ethnicity categories presented are based on
the reporting police officers' perception of the offender's ethnicity which is entered
onto the Police National Computer and not self-reported.</li><li>Where offender counts
are less than or equal to 5, data have been suppressed to avoid deductive disclosure.
In addition, proven reoffending proportions based on less than 30 offenders are also
removed as they make data unreliable for interpretation. In both instances, counts
and/or proportions are marked as *.</li><li>Due to how custodial sentences are recorded,
offenders with prison sentence lengths of one day are not included.</li></ol>
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