What proportion of individuals convicted of a child sex offence since 1999 have reoffended within one year of their release.

The following table provides information on the percentage of offenders convicted of a crime of indecency who were reconvicted for any crime within one year.
Offenders Released from a Custodial Sentence or Given A Non-Custodial Sentence, 1999-2002, Whose Index Conviction1 was for a Crime of Indecency: Percentage Reconvicted2 Within One Year.

| Percentage Reconvicted2 within 1 year:

1999
| 2000
| 2001
| 2002

All crimes of indecency3
| 11
| 10
| 12
| 12

Crimes of indecency with a child victim4
| 12
| 11
| 13
| 12

Other crimes of indecency3,5
| 8
| 9
| 11
| 12

Notes:
1. For each offender in the cohort, this is the conviction which resulted in a non-custodial sentence being served or the one which had originally led to a custodial sentence being served.
2. Reconvictions for any crime or offence in the Scottish Offenders Index.
3. Excluding prostitution offences.
4. Only those crimes of indecency which by definition had child victim(s): defilement of a girl under 13, defilement of a girl under 16, person with custody and care of girl and causing her seduction; lewd and libidinous practices.
5. The Scottish Offenders Index does not otherwise hold information on victim characteristics so no data are available on how many persons were convicted of other types of crime, e.g. rape or indecent assault, which involved child victims.