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<p>The number of female offenders sentenced to custody by court level and police force
area, including North Wales, in 2017, can be found in the Court outcomes by Police
Force Area data tool, which can be found at the below link:-</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017</a></p><p>
</p><p>Select the drop down boxes referring to custodial sentence length in order
to establish sentence lengths. Select female from the sex drop box and, once having
done this, young adults and adults to establish women. Offence classification can
be found in both the Offence Type and Offence group boxes, depending on which specific
definition applies here.</p><p> </p><p>The number of female offenders with no previous
convictions sentenced to immediate custody by court type, sentence length, and offence
type in England and Wales in 2017 can be found in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>Court
proceedings data for 2018 are planned for publication on 16 May 2019, with data for
2019 planned for publication in May 2020.</p><p> </p><p>Our vision, as set out in
our Female Offender Strategy, is to see fewer women coming into the criminal justice
system and a greater proportion managed successfully in the community.</p><p> </p><p>There
is persuasive evidence showing community sentences, in certain circumstances, are
more effective than short custodial sentences in reducing reoffending. The MoJ study
‘The impact of short custodial sentences, community orders and suspended sentence
orders on re-offending’ published in 2015 involved around 350,000 sentencing occasions
over 4 years and used 130 different variables to construct matched groups of offenders
and examine the effect of short sentences relative to community sentences. This study
found a reduction of around 3 percentage points in proven reoffences if offenders
receiving sentences of less than 12 months were to get a community order instead.
This is statistically significant and equates to around 30,000 proven reoffences in
total over a one-year period. This means fewer victims of crime.</p><p> </p><p>Unless
we tackle the underlying causes of offending, we cannot protect the public from being
victims of crime. Effective community orders can address offenders’ behaviour, answer
their mental health and alcohol or drug misuse needs, and provide reparation for the
benefit of the wider community.</p><p> </p>
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