What proportion of individuals convicted of violent assault since 1999 have reoffended within one year of their release.

The available information is given in the following table.
Persons Released from a Custodial Sentence or Given a Non-Custodial Sentence in 1999-2002 Whose Index Conviction1 was for a Violent Crime: Percentage Reconvicted Within One Year

| Percentage Reconvicted Within 1 Year

| 1999
| 2000
| 2001
| 2002

All Violent Crime
| 22
| 24
| 23
| 24

Serious assault and homicide 2
| 16
| 18
| 20
| 19

Robbery
| 36
| 37
| 35
| 39

Simple assault
| 22
| 24
| 23
| 24

Other Violence
| 17
| 18
| 22
| 21

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. Includes murder, culpable homicide, attempted murder and serious assault.