How many of those convicted of crimes involving graffiti in 2003 were repeat offenders and whether common profiles for repeat offenders hav…

Crimes involving graffiti arenot identified separately from other crimes in the category “vandalism, maliciousdamage and malicious mischief” in the Scottish Executive Justice Department classificationof crimes and offences. In 2002, the latest year for which information is currentlyavailable, there were 3,470 convictions in total where the main offence involvedwas vandalism, malicious damage or malicious mischief. Nine per cent of these involvedoffenders who had one or more previous convictions for such offences since the startof 1989. Some information on the reconviction profiles of person convicted of criminaldamage (which includes crimes of vandalism etc) was published in the statisticalbulletin Reconvictions of offenders discharged from custody or given non-custodialsentences in 1997, Scotland published by the Scottish Executive in March 2003,a copy of which is available in the Parliament’s Reference centre (Bib. number 27185).