And These Are Just The Few We Know About!

'Repeat offenders committed more than 500,000 offences in a year, with more than half of these carried out by career criminals each with more than 25 previous offences, figures show. These included some 3,400 serious violent or sexual offences, and a fifth of the offenders who returned to crime were juveniles, the latest figures for 2009 released by the Ministry of Justice reveal.Other figures also published on Thursday show 134 dangerous criminals were charged with murder, rape or another serious offence in 2010/11, despite being monitored by the authorities.It is the first time that the number of offences committed by offenders who have returned to crime, 510,000 in 2009, has been published.More than 10,000 burglars went on to commit another 1,800 domestic burglaries within a year, and almost 3,000 thefts.' (Aol news.)