HOME OFFICE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND STATISTICS DIRECTORATE RESEARCH FINDINGS No. 81 MOTOR PROJECTS IN ENGLAND AND WALES: AN

c Most motor projects used cognitive-behavioural techniques to challenge offendersÕ attitudes and behaviour and encourage them to focus on the consequences of their actions. This was sometimes combined with car maintenance workshops and/or opportunities to drive fast legally. c Of the 1,087 offenders on the projects 89 % were male and 95 % had previous convictions. c Nearly 80 % of offenders were reconvicted within two years of being sentenced of ÔanyÕ offence Ð of these, three-quarters were reconvicted for a motoring offence. c Overall, actual reconviction rates were higher than predicted with particularly poor results for ÔracingÕ projects. The worst results were for young offenders but for the older group actual reconviction (56%) was lower than the prediction (62%). c Offenders who did not complete the projects were reconvicted at much higher rates than their age and criminal histories would suggest. The findings reported here are from an evaluation of 42 schemes designed to deal with motoring offences. Reconviction rates after two years were examined for 1,087 offenders wh