Chart: Young offenders are more likely to re-offend than adults

Crime and justice chart of the week

Author

Matt Ashby

Published

4 Nov 2019

Most people convicted of a crime will not be convicted or cautioned for another offence within 12 months, although young offenders are more likely to offend again than adults. Most re-offending is by a small number of prolific offenders who frequently pass through the criminal justice system – more than 60% of people released from short prison sentences will reoffend within a year.

Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database

Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database

Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_stringMetric, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label)): font family
'Arial' not found in PostScript font database

Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database
Warning in grid.Call(C_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label), x$x, x$y, : font
family 'Arial' not found in PostScript font database

larger image | annotated R code to produce this chart

Data source: Ministry of Justice, 2019