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<p>Families and friends can be a positive influence on reducing reoffending. Strengthening
the ties individuals have with their families and friends is one of the many important
factors to successful rehabilitation and reducing intergenerational crime.</p><p>The
Ministry of Justice is working collaboratively with the Department for Education and
the Welsh Government to ensure that effective support is available within the community
for children of prisoners to reduce the likelihood of intergenerational offending.</p><p>The
specific information you have requested is not held centrally by the Ministry of Justice.
We do not collect data on the criminal conviction status of the parents or children
of those who come into contact with the Criminal Justice System. Therefore, it would
not be possible to do any analysis on either the proportion of offenders who had parents
with a criminal conviction, or offenders with children who have a conviction.</p><p>In
the absence of holding this data ourselves, we rely on estimates from research studies,
such as the MoJ SPCR survey in 2005/6 which found that 37% of prisoners reported having
family members who had been convicted of a non-motoring criminal offence.</p>
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