Official Statistics

Justice Data Lab statistics: October 2020

Tailored reports assessing the impact on rehabilitation programmes on reoffending behaviour analysed within the previous quarter, and summary of results to date

Documents

Penrose CJS report

Penrose CJS annex

Spreadsheet summary of JDL publications

Justice Data Lab general annex

Details

The report is released by the Ministry of Justice and produced in accordance with arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority. For further information about the Justice Data Lab, please refer to the following guidance.

Key findings this quarter

One request is being published this quarter: Penrose CJS

Penrose CJS

Penrose CJS supported men mainly between the ages of 26 and 50 (at the date of release) who were sentenced to less than 12 months in custody under the Offender Rehabilitation Act (ORA).

The overall results show that those who took part in the intervention had a lower one-year proven reoffending rate, and lower reoffending frequency compared to a matched comparison group.

Justice Data Lab service: available reoffending data

The Justice Data Lab team have brought in reoffending data for the first quarter of 2018 into the service. It is now possible for an organisation to submit information on the individuals it was working with up to the end of March 2018, in addition to during the years 2002 to 2017.

The bulletin is produced and handled by the Ministry’s analytical professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons: Ministry of Justice Secretary of State, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State - Minister for Prisons and Probation, Acting Permanent Secretary, Director General of Offender Reform and Commissioning Group, Acting Head of News, Chief Press Officer, 11 policy and analytical advisers for reducing reoffending and rehabilitation policy, special advisors, 2 press officers, and 4 private secretaries.

Published 8 October 2020