5.4 Previous Major Offence for Violent Offenders
Table 5-4 focuses on inmates whose major offence (for the current sentence) was violence-related (excluding sex offences). For those previously convicted, more often than not the previous offence for these offenders was non-violent. Table 5-4 shows that of the 1,853 inmates whose current major offence is for violence, 16 female and 415 male sentenced inmates had served a previous sentence where the major offence was also violent.
Table 5-4 Previous major offence of inmates currently sentenced for violence.
|
Major previous convictions |
Female |
Male |
Total |
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|
Number |
Percent |
Number |
Percent |
Number |
Percent |
|
|
Property |
23 |
24.5% |
467 |
26.5% |
490 |
26.4% |
|
Violence |
16 |
17.0% |
415 |
23.6% |
431 |
23.3% |
|
Traffic |
4 |
4.3% |
205 |
11.7% |
209 |
11.3% |
|
Misc |
10 |
10.6% |
169 |
9.6% |
179 |
9.7% |
|
Drugs |
2 |
2.1% |
74 |
4.2% |
76 |
4.1% |
|
Sex |
0 |
0.0% |
25 |
1.4% |
25 |
1.3% |
|
No previous |
39 |
41.5% |
404 |
23.0% |
443 |
23.9% |
|
Total currently in for violence |
94 |
100.0% |
1759 |
100.0% |
1853 |
100.0% |