NCJ Number
156081
Date Published
1995
Length
16 pages
Annotation
This report presents probation statistics for England and Wales for 1994, including comparisons with those from 1993.
Abstract
Court orders handled by the probation service reached 111,000 in 1994, the highest level ever and 11 percent higher than in 1993. During the year, 49,000 people began a probation order, 14 percent more than in 1993. The starts of community service orders reached their highest level ever at 50,000, a 4 percent increase over 1993. More than 12,000 people started combination orders in 1994 compared with 9,000 in 1993, the first full year of this new order. A total of 233,000 pre-sentence reports were prepared in 1994, a 12 percent increase over 1993. Figures and tables