Reoffenders: Females
(asked on 14th July 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women supervised by community rehabilitation companies following a prison sentence of less than 12 months have been recalled to prison during their licence period (a) once, (b) twice, (c) three times, (d) four times and (e) five or more times.
Anyone who breaches his licence conditions is liable to be recalled to custody. Those who commit a crime while on licence face prosecution and potentially more time in prison. For serious offences, they can be held in prison on remand until trial.
The figures provided in the tables below refer to offenders serving a sentence of less than 12 months who have been released and subsequently recalled. These offenders became subject to supervision and licence conditions only as a result of the commencement of the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 (ORA) in February 2015. Prior to this, such offenders were released unconditionally.
Throughout the period covered by the data, the number of offenders subject to the new provisions has steadily increased. This is because the ORA requirement applied only to those sentenced after commencement. In recent months, the number of ORA offenders being recalled has levelled out.
Furthermore, the ORA provisions have had a disproportionate effect on the number of women recalled because evidence suggests women are more likely to receive shorter sentences.
Table A gives a breakdown of the number of men and women supervised by Community Rehabilitation Companies following a prison sentence of less than 12 months who have been recalled to prison, each month since February 2015.
Table A
Number of offenders recalled from licence following a sentence of less than 12 months, by gender, month and Community Rehabilitation Company area |
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| Feb-15 | Mar-15 | Apr-15 | May-15 | Jun-15 | Jul-15 | Aug-15 | Sep-15 | Oct-15 | Nov-15 | Dec-15 |
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Community Rehabilitation Companies | 2 | 12 | 18 | 25 | 38 | 49 | 45 | 45 | 48 | 38 | 48 |
London | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 6 |
Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire & Rutland | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 3 |
Staffordshire & West Midlands | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
Warwickshire & West Mercia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
Durham Tees Valley | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Humberside, Lincolnshire & North Yorkshire | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Northumbria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
South Yorkshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
West Yorkshire | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Cheshire & Greater Manchester | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Cumbria & Lancashire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Merseyside | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire & Hertfordshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Essex | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Kent, Surrey & Sussex | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
Norfolk & Suffolk | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset & Wiltshire | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
Dorset, Devon & Cornwall | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Hampshire & Isle of Wight | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Thames Valley | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Wales | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
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Community Rehabilitation Companies | 5 | 60 | 158 | 268 | 310 | 393 | 323 | 338 | 422 | 387 | 380 |
London | 0 | 13 | 17 | 46 | 53 | 39 | 51 | 39 | 74 | 67 | 65 |
Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire & Rutland | 0 | 1 | 18 | 24 | 30 | 40 | 35 | 29 | 36 | 23 | 30 |
Staffordshire & West Midlands | 0 | 9 | 5 | 13 | 9 | 20 | 24 | 16 | 16 | 25 | 29 |
Warwickshire & West Mercia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 17 | 10 |
Durham Tees Valley | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Humberside, Lincolnshire & North Yorkshire | 0 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 24 | 12 | 19 | 24 | 11 | 31 |
Northumbria | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 3 |
South Yorkshire | 0 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 17 | 11 | 22 | 22 | 34 | 24 |
West Yorkshire | 0 | 0 | 6 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 9 |
Cheshire & Greater Manchester | 1 | 7 | 26 | 26 | 44 | 48 | 28 | 39 | 35 | 34 | 34 |
Cumbria & Lancashire | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 10 |
Merseyside | 0 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 20 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 9 | 7 |
Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire & Hertfordshire | 0 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 13 | 22 | 17 | 17 | 28 | 22 | 10 |
Essex | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 2 |
Kent, Surrey & Sussex | 0 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 24 | 27 | 22 | 28 | 28 | 25 | 16 |
Norfolk & Suffolk | 0 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 13 |
Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset & Wiltshire | 1 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 7 | 17 | 15 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 20 |
Dorset, Devon & Cornwall | 0 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 12 |
Hampshire & Isle of Wight | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
Thames Valley | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 19 | 11 | 13 |
Wales | 0 | 3 | 15 | 19 | 27 | 38 | 28 | 20 | 29 | 35 | 38 |
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Table B gives a breakdown of women supervised by Community Rehabilitation Companies following a prison sentence of less than 12 months who have been recalled, broken down by the number of times they have been recalled.
Table B
Number of female offenders recalled from licence by Community Rehabilitation Companies following a sentence of less than 12 months |
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Total number of recalls | 368 |
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Total number of offenders recalled | 310 |
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Recalled once | 264 |
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Recalled twice | 37 |
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Recalled 3 times | 6 |
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Recalled 4 times | 3 |
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Recalled 5 or more times | 0 |
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1. Recalls following a sentence of less than 12 months were only available from February 2015. |
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2. The number of recalls for each offender is the total number of recalls from the same sentence in the period February-December 2015 |
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3. Some offenders may have been recalled from more than one sentence over the period. Only multiple recalls from the same sentence are counted here. |
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