Increase in latest re-offending rates
The overall trend is up Although overall levels of crime are down, re-offending rates have proved more intransigent. The latest data – which covers the year
9th August 2015
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The overall trend is up Although overall levels of crime are down, re-offending rates have proved more intransigent. The latest data – which covers the year
I can foresee a situation in the near future where the MoJ links its own funding to participation in the Justice Data Lab and puts pressure on other funders to do the same.
The homicide rate for England and Wales has fallen sharply since 2002/3, and we are one of the safest countries in the world.
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The latest figures from the Crime Survey for England and Wales showed that there were an estimated 6.8 million incidents of crime in the year ending March 2015. This is a 7% decrease compared with the previous year’s survey, and the lowest estimate since the CSEW began in 1981.
This is a guest blog by Bob Neill MP, Chair of the Justice Select Committee (you can follow the work of the committee via its
“We must be more demanding of our prisons, and more demanding of offenders, making those who run our prisons both more autonomous and more accountable while also giving prisoners new opportunities by expecting them to engage seriously and purposefully in education and work.”
The UK Justice Policy Review The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has been publishing the UK Justice Policy Review for the last four years, in its
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The latest (25 June 2015) Criminal Court Statistics, which cover January to March 2015, shows just why the new Justice Secretary Michael Gove is so keen to reform the system. The legal process continues to get slower.
An intriguing first speech from new Justice Secretary Michael Gove sets out a vision of “one nation justice policy.” The tone and content were so striking that the Guardian was moved to write an editorial sub-titled: “hope at last for penal reform?”
The reason for targeting health interventions at offenders is that poor health is often interlinked with offending. Offenders are known to suffer disproportionately from multiple and complex health issues which are often exacerbated by the difficulties they experience in accessing health and social care services in the local community.
