NCJ Number
232681
Date Published
December 2010
Length
26 pages
Annotation
This report presents the latest annual statistics (2009) on the proven offending of individuals in England and Wales identified as "Prolific and Other Priority Offenders" (PPOs), with the intent that they provide a measure of the level of proven offending for those identified by local agencies as PPOs.
Abstract
The PPO program was introduced in order to provide end-to-end multiagency management of the most active and locally damaging offenders. This report updates the previous publication of data based on the 2008 cohort of PPOs. The level of proven offending for the national cohort of PPOs was 39 percent lower for the follow-up period (April 1, 2009, to March 31, 2010) compared with their offending during the baseline period (October 1, 2007, to September 30, 2008). This national cohort contained 10,635 individuals (the number of offenders on the program on February 1, 2009, and tracked for this measure. The offending rate for the entire PPO cohort was 2.4 offenses per individual. Fifty-six percent of the 2009 PPO cohort was proven to have committed an offense during the follow-up period. The offending rate among those who had committed an offense was 4.3 offenses per individual. The group that committed theft accounted for one-fifth of proven offenses for the national PPO cohort. The mean age of offenders in the 2009 PPO cohort was 27 years old; 97 percent of the 2009 cohort were male. Forty-four percent of the offenses committed by the 2009 PPO cohort in the follow-up period resulted in an immediate custodial sentence being received. Out of 173 Local Strategic Partnership areas, 146 recorded a reduction in proven offending that exceeded their predicted reduction. Only six areas recorded an increased level of offending. 2 references and appended main results for the 2009 local cohorts, how offending is measured, and a data quality statement