Breaking the Cycle of reoffending

One prison in Leeds is working hard at reducing reoffending rates amongst its inmates serving short sentences. The MoJ website has details here. A nice story to use with students to illustrate one of the aims of sentencing in action - particularly as the current Home Secretary casts around for ways of cutting the prison population.

Positive Futures as a whole has been around for a decade or so now, and the Youth Justice Board has an impact report from 2005 with some stats on its effectiveness.

Such schemes are also now provided via private funding, and no doubt this option will be embraced further by the current government as things progress. Manchester’s Choose Change project is one such example which has slashed reoffending rates.

New MoJ Site [24 Jan 2012]
Jury trial under threat…again! [17 Jan 2012]
R v Dobson & Norris [4 Jan 2012]
Sentencing Stats [28 Oct 2011]
Sentencing - LIVE! [5 Sep 2011]
Judges reading the Riot Act [19 Aug 2011]
Sentencing Reform Podcast [8 Jul 2011]
Poor set to suffer most from legal aid cuts [28 Jun 2011]
Government set to axe sentencing reforms? [8 Jun 2011]
Rehab, not revenge… [19 Apr 2011]
Deterrence [26 Jan 2011]
Judge for Yourself [23 Jan 2011]
Sentencing Green Paper [8 Dec 2010]
A “rehabilitation revolution” [26 Jul 2010]
The parole board [20 Jul 2010]
“Prison Works”... or does it? [30 Jun 2010]
Guardian Law [13 May 2010]
“I feel as if they have ripped out my heart” - victim’s justice? [17 Mar 2010]
You Be The Judge [10 Mar 2010]
The Angola 3 [10 Mar 2010]
Community Payback - Video clip and worksheet [15 Feb 2010]
Edlington, the age of criminal responsibility and youth sentencing [24 Jan 2010]
Great story for English Legal System revision generally… [7 Dec 2009]
New Youth Justice Site [4 Dec 2009]