Reoffenders: Domestic Abuse

(asked on 20th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners given a custodial sentence for domestic violence have reoffended within a year of their release since 2015.


Answered by
Robert Buckland Portrait
Robert Buckland
This question was answered on 27th June 2019

There is no specific offence of domestic violence. Conduct amounting to domestic violence can be present in a wide range of offences and is not readily identifiable from court sentencing outcomes.

Information on how many prisoners who received a custodial sentence for offences involving domestic violence reoffended within a year of their release since 2015 may be held on court records, but could only be obtained at disproportionate cost as a manual search of court records would be required.

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