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<p /> <p>We are keen to learn from innovative justice practice in other countries
and are currently reviewing international evidence of what works.</p><p> </p><p>We
contribute towards the Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics and the International
Centre for Prison Studies, which provide a comparison of custodial sentences per head
of population.</p><p> </p><p>In the case of reoffending, few comparisons have been
published because of the limited number of countries which regularly collect and analyse
such data and the different methods which are used to calculate these rates. The 2010
“Compendium of reoffending statistics and analysis” compares reoffending rates for
England and Wales, Scotland and the Netherlands. It concluded that most of the difference
in reoffending rates between countries identified was due to the different measurement
techniques, rather than any real difference in the level of reoffending between particular
groups of offenders.</p>
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