Scottish ministers say reconviction rates are at a 13-year low and recorded crime is at a 37-year low.

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By 2006, their three-year reconviction rate had dropped to 10%.

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Liberal Democrat Justice Spokesperson Alison McInnes told MSPs that reconviction rates in Scotland were too high, too consistent and were "more or less the same as 13 years ago when the parliament opened", on 15 March 2012.

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