Breaking the cycle: effective punishment, rehabilitation and sentencing of offenders Ministry of Justice Green Paper

Introduction Fundamental changes to the criminal justice system Break the destructive cycle of crime Rehabilitation revolution Recent reform has been dominated by increasing prison population rather than tackling reoffending Concentration on process instead of results Over complex sentencing framework

Four principles of proposed reform Protecting the public Punishing and rehabilitating offenders Transparency and accountability Decentralisation

Punishment and Payback prisons becoming places of hard work and industry community sentences punishing offenders and making them pay back to society and the taxpayer offenders making greater financial reparation to victims and the taxpayer victims engaging with criminal justice on their own terms

What’s already happening  Restorative Justice  Reparative work Risks  Short term sentences  Employment in the community Punishment and Payback Prison

Punishment and Payback Community What’s already happening  Home Detention Curfews  Community Payback  Unpaid work Risks  No risks

Rehabilitating Offenders to Reduce Crime probation, police and other local services taking an integrated approach to managing offenders getting drug dependent offenders off drugs and into recovery getting offenders into jobs and with somewhere to live so that they can pay their own way tackling mental health problems

Rehabilitating Offenders to Reduce Crime - IOM What works  PPO  DIP Risks  GOM

Drugs Recovery Wing Payment by Result Corston Report Employment Housing and accommodation Rehabilitating Offenders to Reduce Crime - Recovery

Implementation of the Bradley Report Diversion Schemes Rehabilitating Offenders to Reduce Crime – Mental Health

Payment by Results designing the payment by results model for reducing reoffending commissioning at least six new payment by results projects covering a significant proportion of the offender population publishing a comprehensive competition strategy in June 2011 defining how we will pay providers for rehabilitating offenders increasing discretion and enabling frontline professionals to innovate in the way they work with offenders

Payment by Results Identification Application Who gets paid Measurement

Sentencing Reform create a simpler, more transparent sentencing framework that is easier for courts to operate and for victims and the public to understand make better use of prison and community sentences to punish offenders and improve public safety better support our aims of improved rehabilitation and increased reparation to victims and society

Sentencing Reform The Positives  Simplification of the sentencing law  Reform of remand provision  Public perception of the sentencing framework The Risks  Indeterminate prison sentences  Suspended sentences and breach  Changes to community orders  Credit for guilty pleas  Piecemeal penalty notices

Youth Justice prevent more young people from offending and divert them from entering into a life of crime, including by simplifying out-of-court disposals protect the public and ensure that more is done to make young offenders pay back to their victims and communities ensure the effective use of sentencing for young offenders incentivise local partners to reduce youth offending and re-offending using payment by results models develop more effective governance by abolishing the Youth Justice Board and increasing freedoms and flexibilities for local areas

Youth Justice What’s already happening  Family Intervention Programme (FIP)  Tackling Knives Action Programme (TKAP) Risks  Public Perception

Working with Communities to Reduce Crime strengthening the role of the police in turning offenders away from a life of crime and preparing for the election of the first Police and Crime Commissioners in May 2012; ensuring that courts become more efficient and effective and that they play a strong role in tackling reoffending; increasing freedoms and flexibilities for local areas, including supporting innovative approaches to tackling families with multiple needs giving communities more chance to get involved, better information about how justice is delivered, and making services more transparent and accountable to the public working across Government to ensure that the necessary services play a key role in enabling offenders to become responsible, productive citizens

What’s already happening  Engaging community partners  Decentralisation Risks  Victims of crime perception Working with Communities to Reduce Crime