Transcript Crime reduction policies

Crime reduction policies
An assessment
Policies
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Prison
Electronic tagging
Anti social behaviour orders
Community sentencing
Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme (ISSP)
Drug treatment and testing orders
Fines
Compensation orders
Exclusion orders
Conditional discharges
Early intervention strategies (e.g. Surestart)
Probation
Community wardens
Neighbourhood Watch
Restorative justice
Electronic monitoring - tagging
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Electronic monitoring, also known as tagging,
allows offenders who might otherwise be
imprisoned to be released on curfew, with
restrictions imposed on their liberty.
Tagging - evaluation
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Can allow early release from prison
Reduces number of custodial sentences
Restricts movement, especially at night
Cheaper than prison (80% cheaper –
National Audit Office)
Can help with rehabilitation by allowing
offender to maintain family contact / get a job
Tagging evaluation
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Research is divided about effectiveness
In 2007, nearly 12% of tags were removed or the
curfew ignored
Of the 36,500 tagged in 2006/7, 4,000 re-offended
while wearing the tag
It can take almost two weeks to take someone who
breaks the curfew to court
When scheme started in 1999, 1 in 40 reoffended.
By 2006 it was 1 in 9
Anti Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs)
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Introduced by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998
An anti-social behaviour order is an Order of the
Court which tells an individual over 10 years old how
they must not behave.
may be issued in response to "conduct which
caused or was likely to cause harm, harassment,
alarm or distress, to one or more persons not of
the same household as him or herself and where
an ASBO is seen as necessary to protect
relevant persons from further anti-social acts by
the Defendant".