According to the Scottish Government’s statistical report on the criminal justice system, both the rate of reconviction and the average number of reconvictions per person have been slowly decreasing since 2003. The statistics are based on the data of people who were released from custody in 2015-16 or received a non-custodial sentence during that period.
Some of the key points of the report were:
Overall, of the 41,612 people that were convicted in 2016-17, 65% had at least one previous conviction, while 13% had ten or more convictions in the past ten years.
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