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<p> </p><p> </p><p>The latest proven re-offending rates for those offenders released
from prison can be found in tables 1 and 2 below. Table 1 provides overall proven
re-offending rates for offenders released from prison and has been taken from the
Proven Re-offending Statistics Quarterly Bulletin series. Table 2 provides proven
re-offending rates for Muslim offenders released from prison.</p><p> </p><p>A proven
re-offence is defined as any offence committed in a one year follow-up period resulting
in a court conviction, caution, reprimand or warning in the one year follow-up. Following
this one year follow-up, a further six month waiting period is allowed for the offence
to be proven in court.</p><p> </p><p>These figures have been drawn from administrative
IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible
errors with data entry and processing. A prisoner's religion is self declared and
prisoners are under no obligation to declare.</p><p> </p><p>1. A certain proportion
of offenders could not be matched to the Police National Computer (PNC) and are, therefore,
not included. Therefore, this number does not represent all proven offenders</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p>1. A certain proportion of offenders could not be matched to the Police
National Computer (PNC) and are, therefore, not included. Therefore, this number does
not represent all proven offenders.</p><p> </p><p>2. Data on offenders' religious
beliefs are not available for 2010 due to data quality issues following the introduction
of a new prison IT system.</p><p> </p>
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