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Table 1 Deaths of offenders in the community by gender and apparent cause, England and Wales (Ministry of Justice 2017a)

From: Suicide and community justice

	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15			2015/16			2016/17^a
					NPS	CRCs	Total	NPS	CRCs	Total	NPS	CRCs	Total
Males and Females	704	653	634	560	179	379	558	241	497	738	279	469	748
Self-inflicted	148	162	190	189	49	141	190	63	207	270	72	161	233
Natural Causes	238	222	240	214	75	121	196	106	135	241	124	134	258
Homicide	27	28	28	17	5	9	14	6	16	22	13	20	33
Accident	68	49	49	37	13	35	48	21	46	67	14	43	57
Other	31	42	29	25	3	12	15	1	10	11	3	11	14
Unclassified^b	192	150	98	78	34	61	95	44	83	127	53	100	153

NPS National Probation Service; CRC Community Rehabilitation Company
^aMissing returns from 2 CRCs. Caution should be used when comparing with earlier periods
^bUnclassified deaths refer to those deaths for which a cause was unknown at the time of reporting

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