What the most recent estimate is of the rate of recidivism amongst (a) child sex offenders, (b) other sex offenders, (c) violent crime offe…

The available information onthe two year reconviction rates of persons originally convicted for a sexual crimeagainst a child, other sexual crime, violent crime and other types of crime in 2002-03is given in the following table.
The reconviction rates for personsoriginally convicted of a sexual crime against a child and other sexual crime arebased on relatively small numbers of offenders.
Persons released from a custodialsentence or given a non-custodial sentence in 2002-03:
Percentage Reconvicted withinTwo Years by Index Crime2 and Police Force Area of Index Conviction1
Police Force Area by Index Crime2
| Total Number (=100%)
| Percentage Reconvicted within Two Years
| Percentage with a Custodial Reconviction within two Years

Scotland3
| 44,848
| 45
| 15

Sexual crime against a child / children4
| 171
| 12
| 4

Other sexual crime5
| 289
| 20
| 6

Violent crime6
| 11,141
| 37
| 10

Other7
| 33,247
| 48
| 17

Northern
| 2,304
| 42
| 12

Sexual crime against a child / children4
| 14
| 7
| 7

Other sexual crime5
| 16
| 13
| 6

Violent crime6
| 619
| 39
| 11

Other7
| 1,655
| 44
| 13

Grampian
| 3,821
| 44
| 12

Sexual crime against a child / children4
| 18
| 6
| 0

Other sexual crime5
| 20
| 25
| 15

Violent crime6
| 1,102
| 35
| 7

Other7
| 2,681
| 48
| 15

Tayside
| 4,075
| 47
| 14

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