Community Supervision Releases
General Characteristics Offender Releases
|
Type of Offense
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* One of the following conditions must occur for a crime to be defined as violent under
this definition: actual physical harm or threat of physical harm, or a reasonable
probability existed that individual criminal acts could have resulted in unintended
physical harm or the threat of physical harm. |
| Category |
FY 2007-08 |
| Total Releases |
104,572 |
100.0% |
| Gender |
| Male |
79,513 |
76.0% |
| Female |
25,059 |
24.0% |
| Race |
| White |
63,640 |
60.9% |
| Black |
35,752 |
34.2% |
| Other |
5,168 |
4.9% |
| Data Unavailable |
12 |
|
| Age at Release |
| 17 & Under |
179 |
0.2% |
| 18-24 |
26,953 |
25.7% |
| 25-34 |
32,258 |
30.9% |
| 35-49 |
34,107 |
32.6% |
| 50-59 |
8,634 |
8.3% |
| 60+ |
2,441 |
2.3% |
| Prior DC Supervision Commitments |
| 0 |
54,883 |
52.5% |
| 1 |
24,635 |
23.6% |
| 2 |
11,426 |
10.9% |
| 3 |
6,112 |
5.8% |
| 4+ |
7,516 |
7.2% |
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Releases Compared
Over Five Years
|
|
| Type of Offense |
Number |
Percent |
Average Sentence Length in Years * |
Average Age at Offense |
| Murder, Manslaughter |
577 |
0.6% |
8.9 |
29.9 |
| Sexual offenses |
1,962 |
1.9% |
7.3 |
32.4 |
| Robbery |
2,479 |
2.4% |
4.5 |
25.7 |
| Violent Personal offenses |
13,879 |
13.3% |
2.8 |
31.9 |
| Burglary |
8,997 |
8.6% |
2.9 |
26.5 |
| Theft/Forgery/Fraud |
24,132 |
23.1% |
2.5 |
30.9 |
| Drug offenses |
35,106 |
33.5% |
2.2 |
31.3 |
| Weapons |
2,195 |
2.1% |
2.4 |
29.2 |
| Other |
15,245 |
14.5% |
2.1 |
33.4 |
| * Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer and life are coded as 50 years for calculation of averages. |
