Community Supervision Releases
General Characteristics Offender Releases
| Type of Offense |
|
| * 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 2009-10 |
| Total Releases |
99,183 |
100.0% |
| Gender |
| Males |
74,388 |
75.0% |
| Females |
24,795 |
25.0% |
| Race |
| White |
60,682 |
61.2% |
| Black |
33,062 |
33.3% |
| Other |
5,429 |
5.5% |
| Data Unavailable |
10 |
0.0% |
| Age At Release |
| 17 & Under |
193 |
0.2% |
| 18-24 |
25,786 |
26.0% |
| 25-34 |
31,595 |
31.8% |
| 35-49 |
29,823 |
30.1% |
| 50-59 |
9,099 |
9.2% |
| 60+ |
2,686 |
2.7% |
| Prior DC Supervision Commitments |
| 0 |
53,867 |
54.3% |
| 1 |
23,209 |
23.4% |
| 2 |
10,226 |
10.3% |
| 3 |
5,337 |
5.4% |
| 4+ |
6,544 |
6.6% |
| Releases Compared
Over Five Years |
|
| Type of Offense |
Number |
Percent |
Average Sentence Length
in Years* |
Average Age at Offense |
| Murder, Manslaughter |
527 |
0.5% |
9.7 |
28.8 |
| Sexual offenses |
1,675 |
1.7% |
7.3 |
32.8 |
| Robbery |
2,470 |
2.5% |
4.2 |
24.9 |
| Violent Personal offenses |
13,278 |
13.4% |
2.8 |
32.0 |
| Burglary |
9,264 |
9.3% |
2.9 |
26.4 |
| Theft/Forgery/Fraud |
24,439 |
24.6% |
2.5 |
30.8 |
| Drug offenses |
32,153 |
32.4% |
2.3 |
31.1 |
| Weapons |
2,537 |
2.5% |
2.4 |
28.6 |
| Other |
12,840 |
12.9% |
2.1 |
34.0 |
| * Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer and life are coded as 50 years for calculation of averages. |
