Sentence examples for show reoffending from inspiring English sources

Quantitative data on 12-month recidivism rates of programme graduates show reoffending markedly reduced.

The MoJ pilot examined 125 interventions – involving 24,665 prisoners – from charities, private contractors, public bodies, or educational institutions against control groups to show reoffending levels in the first year after an ex-offender's release.

Clarke said the MoJ statistics showed reoffending in England and Wales to be unacceptably high and underlined the urgent need for steps to counter it.

The probation service is doing a good job, or – to give it its technical name – a "good to exceptional" one; the most recent figures showed reoffending down by 5%.

They cite figures showing reoffending rates of 22% for those who work full-time on release compared with 70% overall.

The figures reveal that the overall reoffending rate for adults has fallen from 44% in 2000 to 39% in 2006, with all three measures of adult reoffending – the proportion of offenders who reoffend, the frequency of reoffending and the severity of reoffending – showing significant reductions during this period.

So, could yoga play a part in helping to reduce crime in England and Wales where the latest figures show adult reoffending rates are 37%?

The statistics, based on 2007 data, show that reoffending rates for individual prisons range from 26.7% to 76.6% for criminals locked up for less than 12 months and between 2% and 55% for those serving more than a year.

Officials say they are confident that when the scheme is reflected in figures in future years, they will show further reductions in reoffending.

An interim evaluation (pdf) by the UK Ministry of Justice of the Peterborough Sib, a project that aims to reduce reoffending, showed that over the past 12 months reoffending fell by 6% among adult men in the programme, while reoffending among a comparable group of adult men outside the programme rose by 16% – an impact of 22 percentage points.

Data collected showed a 10% reduction in reoffending over a five-year period and 40% of offenders on an IAC gained employment despite low educational attainment.