CRIMINAL JUSTICE CHAMPIONS EVENT

REDUCING RE-OFFENDING

03 February 2012

Reducing Re-offending – Why is it Important?Re-offending Costs!

• For every repeat crime there is another victim• Direct costs of detection, arrest, prosecution and sentence• Costs to offenders, families, and neighbourhoods• Intergenerational offending –

father to son/daughter; mother to son/daughter• Dysfunctional people cost –

Adult & Children Social CareHealthLocal AuthorityHousing

Current Policy Drivers• HIGH ON POLITICAL AGENDA

• EVIDENCED LESS CRIME AND REDUCED RE-OFFENDING

• IMPROVED PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS AND CREDIBILITY

• VALUE FOR MONEY AND PAYMENT BY RESULTS

• REDUCTIONS IN COSTS WHILST MAINTAINING QUALITY

• NEED TO ESTABLISH WHAT WORKS

• TENSIONS BETWEEN REHABILITATION AND PUNISHMENT

• SENTENCING REFORM

• POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONERS

Criminal Justice Champions Event

• Opportunity to share good practice and good news

• Stimulate discussion between agencies, voluntary partners, sentencers and local communities

• Consider current Policy reforms• A day in the life of a Probation Officer• A chance to become a Sentencer

Reducing Re-offending in North East Lincolnshire

Vision“Working in Partnership to reduce re-offending and make our diverse communities safer places”.Agencies and Lead PartnersHPT is the Lead AgencyPartners include: Humberside Police; Youth Offending Teams; HM Courts Services; Crown Prosecution Services; Prisons; Community Safety Partnership (Safer and Stronger Communities). Service Providers: Health; Housing; Job Centre Plus. Specific Interventions: Empower; G4S. VANEL – Community Payback; Volunteers.

Reducing Re-offending in North East LincsGood News – Excellent Results

HPT, YOS, DIP – Manage over 1,000 offenders at any one time

2008-2010 – A Division (Grimsby) has demonstrated a 32% in recorded Serious Acquisitive Crime

A Division is in the top 5% of all Crime and Reduction Partnerships nationally (Source IQUANTA)

A Division demonstrated a 35% reduction in re-offending against Prolific and Priority Offenders in 2010

Youth Offending down 32% 2009-2010

Class A drug related offending down by 31%

Key Success Factors

• Integrated Offender Management in North East Lincolnshire

• Key Offender Identified Early, Targeted and Intensively Managed – Gold, Silver, Bronze

• Strong Partnership Links: Probation; YOS; Police; Health; DIP/AIP; Courts; Prisons; VANEL; Housing; G4S; Empower

• Clear Governance and Accountability

Green Paper Rehabilitation Revolution

• Punishment and Payback(including making Prisons places of work and enhancing payback in Community Sentences)

• Rehabilitating offenders to reduce crime – including treating substance misuse dependency, addressing mental health needs and ensuring an Integrated Offender Management approach

• Payment by Results – Paying Providers by the results they achieve

• Sentencing Reform – improve transparency of sentencing and better use of Custodial and Community Sentences (Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill)

Reducing Re-offending – What Works

QUALITY ENGAGEMENT WITH OFFENDERS• Taking time to listen• Giving focus to practical and social problems as well as attitudes,

thinking and behaviour• Expressing and encouraging motivation and hope• Recognising offenders’ strengths and resources and building on existing

supports• Giving practical assistance in problem solving – not simply solving the

problem• Setting goals collaboratively• Having and sharing good knowledge of all available resources to refer

offenders to.

Reducing Re-offendingWhat Works – Desistance

• Suitable and stable place to live• Forming strong and supportive bonds with others not involved in

crime• Overcoming dependence on drugs and alcohol• Finding steady employment• Feeling hopeful and motivated• Having the opportunity to give something back• Having a place within a social group• Having someone else believe in them and their ability to change• Developing confidence to negotiate/engage with interviews,

services, banks, power companies.

Reducing Re-offendingInterventions that Work – Best Practice

• Employment – focussed programmes in which offenders secure real jobs

• Structured Cognitive Behavioural Programmes evidence based and targeted at medium-high risk offenders

• Structured therapeutic communities for substance misusing offenders

• Substitute prescribing combined with counselling• Family based interventions with juvenile offenders