ABSTRACT
Had adversarial police contact (including charges) but never referred to the Reporter (n = 322)
Had adversarial police contact (including charges) but never referred to the Reporter (n = 117)
Table 6 Inter-group comparison of serious offending at sweeps 4 and 5
Sweep 4 Sweep 5
Prevalence (%)
Stage 1: Police charge Charged group (n = 99) 74.7 Comparison group (n = 237) 71.0 Difference (p-value) 0.552
Stage 2: Referral to Reporter Referred group (n = 130) 69.2 Comparison group (n = 322) 63.6 Difference (p-value) 0.338
Stage 3: Brought to a hearing
Hearing group (n =59) 67.8 Comparison group (n = 117) 67.8 Difference (p-value) 1.000
8.17 7.89 0.458
8.03 7.75 0.452
9.63 8.88 0.691
Prevalence (%)
49.0 49.5 0.942
50.0 47.0
0.625
71.7 52.5
0.037
4.07 4.53 0.774
4.91 4.51 0.848
6.64 4.51 0.076
Note: Difference in mean volume between groups was calculated using the Wilcoxon Mann-Whitney test of mean ranks. Analysis was based on imputed offending data and weighted to take account of over-sampling within the matched groups.
