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This bit of Easy Livin's post:

 

In the past five years, more than half a million first-time offenders convicted for violence, sexual offences, burglary, robbery, theft, drug offences and fraud have avoided jail. Just 40,000 have been sent to prison.

 

Last year 168,000 first-time offenders, equivalent to 95.7 per cent of those convicted, were given community sentences in England and Wales.

 

Just 5,483 of the 15,900 sex offenders were jailed, along with 988 of the 12,309 violent criminals and 350 of the 1,641 people convicted of robbery.

The convictions for violence are recorded as “violence against the person”, which covers more than 30 offences including grievous bodily harm, assault, kidnap, child abduction, harassment and threats to kill.

 

There has been a decline in the proportion of people being sent to prison for robbery and fraud over the past five years.

 

Is copied and pasted from a Daily Telegraph article from 2013:

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10375233/Nine-in-10-walk-free-for-first-violent-crime.html

 

It's hard to know what to make of those numbers. Prison isn't the answer for everything, and I'm not sure first time offenders ought to be imprisoned in relation to *all* the offences mentioned. Of course there isn't enough detail to make those kinds of judgements.

 

The most recent criminal justice statistics (they're quarterly, so the most recent are from March) are here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/638225/cjs-statistics-march-2017.pdf

 

They say:

 

The custody rate for indictable offences has been increasing since March 2011, from 24% to 31%. Average custodial sentence length (ACSL) for these offences has increased from 15.3 months to 19.5 months since March 2007.

 

Offenders with no previous convictions and cautions are now more likely to go to court and be convicted (52%) than to receive a caution. Only 22% of these offenders were convicted 10 years ago.

 

 

 

 

Those prisons are full.

 

do some research and see just how low the percentage of criminals who get incarcerated is. you will be shocked

 

Unless your a repeat offender, or just seriously bad news an offender will not be locked up.

 

 

In the past five years, more than half a million first-time offenders convicted for violence, sexual offences, burglary, robbery, theft, drug offences and fraud have avoided jail. Just 40,000 have been sent to prison.

 

Last year 168,000 first-time offenders, equivalent to 95.7 per cent of those convicted, were given community sentences in England and Wales.

 

Just 5,483 of the 15,900 sex offenders were jailed, along with 988 of the 12,309 violent criminals and 350 of the 1,641 people convicted of robbery.

 

The convictions for violence are recorded as “violence against the person”, which covers more than 30 offences including grievous bodily harm, assault, kidnap, child abduction, harassment and threats to kill.

 

There has been a decline in the proportion of people being sent to prison for robbery and fraud over the past five years.

 

 

so. 4.3% chance of going to prison.