Everything you want to know about probation
The most up-to-date data
This is the latest in my new series of compendiums of the latest data and trends in the criminal justice system. Following compendiums on prisons, sentencing, and offender equalities, this edition focuses on probation.
For the best experience, click through the visualisation at the bottom of this page, this allows you to hover over data points and see the exact data. If you can’t see the visualisation below on your device, you can find it here.
Topics covered include:
- The type of offences people are on probation for
- The decline of community sentences over the last decade
- Caseload figures (including changes in different forms of supervision)
- The offence profile of people on community supervision
- A breakdown of the popularity of different requirements on community orders and suspended sentence orders
- Successful completion rates (and reasons for termination) for community supervision
- The spectacular drop in the number of full Pre-Sentence reports
I hope you find them of use and interest.
Compendium last updated 3 December 2020
Criminal Justice Trends
Click below for up-to-date interactive charts using the latest official data.
Offender equalities
A wide range of prison statistics broken down by gender, ethnicity and age.
Probation
The latest caseload figures and trends, offender profiles and court reports.
Prison
Details of individual establishments, costs, population trends and safety in custody stats.
Sentencing
Compare sentencing outcomes, lengths and reoffending rates and index offences.
Recent Probation Posts
Thames Valley CRC improves performance
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Chris Fox and Kevin Albertson explore the concept of innovation in probation in another of HMI Probation’s Academic Insights.
National Probation Service faces workload crisis
Chief Inspector of Probation Justin Russell urges action on National Probation Service staffing, workloads and facilities
What has the Justice Data Lab taught us about reducing reoffending?
The Justice Data Lab has been running for almost seven years now, what can we learn from it about what works in reducing reoffending?
All you need to know about probation
My new compendium of the latest data on probation: caseloads; types of supervision; court reports etc.
What should probation caseloads be?
HMI Probation has commissioned a Rapid Evidence Assessment into probation caseloads – do you have research to contribute?
Where is the evidence base for accredited programmes?
Penelope Gibbs of Transform Justice questions the evidence base of the probation accredited programmes currently being put out to tender.
The Probation procurement competition is underway
The MoJ has formally launched the competition to provide unpaid work and accredited programmes in the 12 new probation regions.
Arts and Culture change lives of women on probation
Changing Lives “Free but not Free” programme used an arts approach to help women achieve positive change.
The Eurobarometer on experiencing supervision
Ioan Durnescu on people’s experience of being on probation in another of HMI Probation’s Academic Insights.
Why do so many people keep dying on probation?
Jake Phillips investigates the increasingly worrying trend of more people dying on probation.
The decline in community sentences
A graphic look at the decline of the community sentence over the last decade.
