Measuring reoffending with court data: proposed tier 1 specification [pdf, 750 KB]
...systems and the methods of calculation”. (National Audit Office [UK], 2012, para 2.55) Countries differ markedly in how criminal justice data are handled: reconviction and re- imprisonment rates are influenced by legislation, sentencing practices, resource levels of criminal justice sector agencies, as well as volumes of crimes committed and rates of detection and resolution. Consequently, comparisons of reconviction or re-imprisonment rates between countries are usually a fraught exerc...