Non-Custodial Sentences Flashcards
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CPOs
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- The reconviction rate was 29.1% in 2017-18; in contrast, about 60% of people sentenced to prison terms of three months or less were reconvicted
- Karyn McCluskey says that “people should serve their sentence in the community” as “keeping people in employment lowers the chances of them ending up in jail”.
- A Freedom of Information request found nearly 400 convicted criminals reoffend each week in England and Wales before completing their community service sentences.
- Around 22,800 orders were terminated due to non-compliance, eg failing to perform unpaid work, meet with probation officers, or attend mandated treatments.
- In Chile a systematic review found that individuals given community sentences had a 2-year reconviction rate of 9.7%, one of the lowest reported globally.
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Restorative Justice
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- Restorative Justice programmes, are deemed successful as they result in a 14% reduced rate of reoffending.
- In New Zealand, a recent evaluation found that the reoffending rate for those who participated in restorative justice was 7.5% lower over 3 years
