Crimes against Property: Convictions
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted for (a) criminal damage and (b) arson in each year from 2020 to 2024; and how many people did not receive an immediate custodial sentence by year of conviction and number of previous occasions the offender has been convicted for (i) criminal damage and (ii) arson from 2020 to 2024.
Answered by Jake Richards
The information requested is provided in the attached excel tables. These tables include data covering the period 2020 – 2024 on:
a) The number of offenders who were convicted of the specified offence (all disposal types)
b) The number of offenders who were convicted of the specified offence but did not receive an immediate custodial sentence, by the number of previous convictions for that specified offence.
This data is not regularly published or held in an easily accessible format. The information supplied has been sourced from a bespoke retrieval from the Police National Computer database.
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