9.9 Overall offender pool growth and circulation

The table below and scale diagram provide the relative numbers of the recently active vs. currently managed offenders. Overall new offenders and desisting offenders are reasonably closely matched meaning that total offenders have not changed much this year. Most of Corrections' new intake in the last year is drawn from the pool of known offenders seen within the previous ten years.

Offender pool balances	30-Jun-2006	30-Jun-2007	Increase
Corrections managed offenders (excludes remandees with no proven offending history in last 10 years)	30106	33162	3056
Recently managed offenders pool (managed within last 10 years)	149605	149393	-212
Overall offender pool	179711	182555	2844

Flows to / from Corrections management during 2006-2007 financial year	In flow	Out flow	Increase
Offenders starting their first ever Corrections sanction (Newbies)	11444
Relapsed desistors transitioning from aged out status to managed status	1393
Recidivists transitioning from recently managed offenders to managed status	18153
Offenders completing Corrections management episodes and entering the recently managed offenders pool		27934
Net Corrections Sanction Management Inflows (excludes remand)			3056

Flows to / from Recent Offenders Pool during 2006-2007 financial year	In flow	Out flow	Increase
Offenders completing a period of Corrections management	27934
Recent offender recidivists starting a period of Corrections sanction management		18153
Offenders automatically "aged out" from the recently managed offenders pool after ten years without further sanction		10108
Aged out offender recidivists going directly back into the offender pool (not visible in diagram, results from coding error that reclassified remand and release candidates into offender pool instead of returning them to age out status)	115
Net Recent Offender Pool Inflows			-212

The diagram above depicts the pool of all offenders either under current management or recently managed. The relative size of the arrows overlaid on the chart show the proportionate throughputs of offenders from one category to another. It should be noted that the totals used here differ slightly from other pages in this report as the above totals include offenders in remand but reassigned appropriately as Corrections managed offenders or recently managed offenders on the basis their status immediately before the remand. For example someone on community work and then remanded would still be regarded as a Corrections managed offender, but someone remanded with no previous history would not be included in the above numbers.