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 2008-09 |
| Total Releases |
103,392 |
100.0% |
| Gender |
| Males |
77,767 |
75.2% |
| Females |
25,625 |
24.8% |
| Race |
| White |
62,878 |
60.8% |
| Black |
34,974 |
33.8% |
| Other |
5,533 |
5.4% |
| Data Unavailable |
7 |
0.0% |
| Age At Release |
| 17 & Under |
208 |
0.2% |
| 18-24 |
26,635 |
25.8% |
| 25-34 |
32,295 |
31.2% |
| 35-49 |
32,485 |
31.4% |
| 50-59 |
9,069 |
8.8% |
| 60+ |
2,700 |
2.6% |
| Prior DC Supervision Commitments |
| 0 |
55,648 |
53.8% |
| 1 |
24,098 |
23.3% |
| 2 |
10,962 |
10.6% |
| 3 |
5,730 |
5.5% |
| 4+ |
6,954 |
6.7% |
|
Releases Compared
Over Five Years
|
|
| Type of Offense |
Number |
Percent |
Average Sentence Length
in Years* |
Average Age at Offense |
| Murder, Manslaughter |
545 |
0.5% |
9.9 |
28.5 |
| Sexual offenses |
1,788 |
1.7% |
7.6 |
33.4 |
| Robbery |
2,480 |
2.4% |
4.7 |
25.1 |
| Violent Personal offenses |
13,879 |
13.4% |
2.8 |
31.9 |
| Burglary |
9,260 |
9.0% |
2.9 |
26.6 |
| Theft/Forgery/Fraud |
24,663 |
23.9% |
2.5 |
30.8 |
| Drug offenses |
33,251 |
32.2% |
2.3 |
31.2 |
| Weapons |
2,510 |
2.4% |
2.3 |
29.2 |
| Other |
15,016 |
14.5% |
2.1 |
33.6 |
| * Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer and life are coded as 50 years for calculation of averages. |
