Ministry of Justice statistics show the number of offences committed by former prisoners has dropped more sharply than the proportion who reoffend. Between 2000 and 2005 the proportion of juvenile offenders who went on to reoffend fell from 40.2 per cent to 38.4 per cent, a drop of 4.4 per cent. But the number of offences committed per 100 reoffenders fell by 17.4 per cent, from 151.4 to 125. Another newly introduced measure - severity of offences - remained almost static with about...