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 |
94,171 |
100.0% |
| Gender |
| Males |
69,969 |
74.3% |
| Females |
24,202 |
25.7% |
| Race |
| White |
58,812 |
62.5% |
| Black |
30,611 |
32.5% |
| Other |
4,744 |
5.0% |
| Data Unavailable |
4 |
0.0% |
| Age At Release |
| 17 & Under |
147 |
0.2% |
| 18-24 |
24,396 |
25.9% |
| 25-34 |
30,708 |
32.6% |
| 35-49 |
27,391 |
29.1% |
| 50-59 |
8,863 |
9.4% |
| 60+ |
2,666 |
2.8% |
| Prior DC Supervision Commitments |
| 0 |
50,793 |
53.9% |
| 1 |
22,075 |
23.5% |
| 2 |
9,829 |
10.4% |
| 3 |
5,246 |
5.6% |
| 4+ |
6,228 |
6.6% |
| Releases Compared
Over Five Years |
|
| Type of Offense |
Number |
Percent |
Average Sentence Length
in Years* |
Average Age at Offense |
| Murder, Manslaughter |
512 |
0.5% |
10.8 |
27.9 |
| Sexual offenses |
1,640 |
1.7% |
7.2 |
33.1 |
| Robbery |
2,501 |
2.7% |
4.4 |
24.9 |
| Violent Personal offenses |
13,371 |
14.2% |
2.8 |
32.3 |
| Burglary |
9,133 |
9.7% |
3.0 |
26.2 |
| Theft/Forgery/Fraud |
23,936 |
25.4% |
2.5 |
30.8 |
| Drug offenses |
30,143 |
32.0% |
2.3 |
31.1 |
| Weapons |
2,288 |
2.5% |
2.4 |
29.1 |
| Other |
10,643 |
11.3% |
2.3 |
34.1 |
| * Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer and life are coded as 50 years for calculation of averages. |
