Estimating the proportion of prisoners in England and Wales who are ex-Armed Forces - further analysis

Bray, I; O'Malley, P; Ashcroft, S; Adedeji, E; Spriggs, A

Abstract

On 25 January 2010 Defence Analytical Services and Advice (DASA) published its initial estimate of the proportion of prisoners in England and Wales who are ex-Armed Forces. The study involved matching the personal
details of adult prisoners against DASA’s Service leavers database. The initial report published on 25 January 2010 reported that 2,207 records of Service leavers matched against the 81,071 prisoner records supplied by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) (a snapshot taken on 06/11/09). From this it was estimated that 2.7% (rounded up to 3%) of prisoners were veterans of the UK Regular Armed Forces. The initial report committed the Ministry of Defence to three areas of further analysis. These three components are described in detail in this report which is divided into the following sections:
Section A: Revising the estimate of the proportion of prisoners in England and Wales who are ex-Armed Forces.
Section B: Describing the characteristics of the prisoners in England and Wales who were identified as ex-Armed Forces.
Section C: Comparing the proportion of ex-Armed Forces
identified as being in prison with the proportion of the general population in prison, overall and by offence group.

• Report Type: Project Report
• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2010
• Deposit Date: Dec 18, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 18, 2018
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: prison, military veterans
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/975425
• Additional Information: Additional Information : Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
• Contract Date: Dec 18, 2018