Sentences with phrase «community sentences»
Community sentences refer to non-custodial or non-prison punishments given by the court to offenders. Instead of going to jail, they are given alternative punishments within the community, such as community service, probation, or rehabilitation programs. Full definition
For the past century the probation service has worked with people in court for sentencing, people who are convicted and given community sentences and people coming out of long prison sentences.
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MPs, like so many before them who looked at the evidence, called for an increased use of community sentences.
We believe that tough community sentences for young offenders should be expanded and their funding guaranteed.
74 % of the public, and 86 % of police officers, believed «offenders often commit further crimes while serving community sentences».
Of those criminals, 64 % had previously received at least two community sentences prior to their incarceration.
Mr Hanson will now tour local communities trying to ensure any new focus on community sentences does not lead to suspicions the government is going soft on crime.
«We would like the government to now look at more ways in which communities themselves can get involved in community sentencing, for example in helping to identify what kind of unpaid work particular areas require,» she added.
Four fifths of the public and victims of crime saw community sentences as a «soft punishment», and 90 % of police officers thought offenders saw such sentences as a soft punishment.
«Non-custodial community sentences such as unpaid work, supervision, behaviour programmes, drug rehabilitation, alcohol treatment and curfews are often more effective in preventing reoffending than short prison sentences.
Commissioner Oscar also echoed her support for community sentencing options and for the introduction of justice targets, a measure called for by successive Social Justice Commissioners within the Closing the Gap Strategy.
We will use community sentences better and tackle the long term causes of crime like drug and alcohol addiction or mental health problems.»
Community sentencing provides a much higher success rate.
While the statistics do support the notion of short sentencing being ineffective on recidivism rates, the CCP claims they prove community sentencing is not the answer.
A new report on community sentencing indicates that the system is failing to protect the public and leads to high levels of re-offence.
«These figures prove that letting thousands of criminals off with one community sentence after another is failing.
Community sentences fail to protect the public and fail to stop reoffending.
Labour MP David Hanson assured the public community sentences would not apply to sexual or violent offenders.
«The committee concludes that a prison system which effectively rehabilitates a smaller number of offenders, while other offenders are rehabilitated through robust community sentences, has the potential to bring about a bigger reduction in crime,» MPs found.
The government committed # 40 million in March to ensure magistrates have tough community sentences at their disposal.
«We believe that constructive community sentences can play an important role in reducing re-offending among less serious offenders,» she said.
Community sentencing causes a «statistically significant» drop in reoffending rates, according to MPs.
No 10 could force justice secretary Ken Clarke to turn community sentences into a «virtual prison» for offenders, according to reports.
«This reports adds to the growing evidence that effective community sentences are of far greater benefit to society than revolving - door custodial sentences.»
Talks between the Ministry of Justice and Downing Street are ongoing, with a consultation document on community sentencing policy not expected to be released for another six weeks.
Clarke's defiant stance on prisoner voting and more community sentences is at odds not just with Conservative core voters but many Labour core voters — in other words, a lot of voters, as the Sun and Daily Mail have noticed.
The Liberal - Democrats said they would cancel Labour's prison building programme and replace many prison sentences with what they call «rigorously enforced community sentences».
It plans to increase the visibility of community sentences so offenders «pay back»; provide local crime data and online maps; set national minimum standards for neighbourhood policing; and dedicate funding for community safety.
The rules relating to itinerants should affect relatively few sex offenders: it would be inappropriate to pass community sentences on them since it would be difficult, if not impossible, to supervise those offenders who are homeless; neither is it likely that anyone would be released directly from prison without a home to go to.
One hundred and twenty thousand crimes were committed last year by criminals given community sentences», CCP director Peter Cuthbertson said.
The creation of a National Crime Agency and reforming of community sentences are expected to feature.
This is drastically restricting the options available to magistrates and judges to pass down non-custodial community sentences.
Youth Conferencing, a Restorative Justice programme in Northern Ireland, demonstrated a combined reoffending rate of 38 % in 2006 — compared to 52 % for community sentences and 71 % for custodial sentences.
«In short, community sentences as currently delivered have no evident effect on rates of reconviction.»
Ludlow MP Philip Dunne has produced some remarkable figures on community sentences, which the Government has not challenged:
You make greater use of open prisons and community sentencing.
Jonathan Baldie Editor, The Pryer Community orders are not cost - cutting The article «Too Soft on Crime» (TP, June) argued that community sentences are an insufficient deterrent against society's worst repeat offenders.
Community sentences will be more credible, with more demanding work and greater use of tough curfew requirements.
We need to make better use of prison and community sentences to punish offenders and improve public safety, while ensuring that sentencing supports our aims of improved rehabilitation and increased reparation to victims and society.
Three quarters of both the public and police officers think «community sentences are often given to offenders who ought to go to prison».
Only 19 % of the public and 25 % of police officers believe «community sentences are effective at stopping offenders from reoffending».
In addition, senior representatives from the College of Policing and the National Offender Management Service will be on the UK pavilion, who will be available to discuss the UK policing and offender management (e.g. prisons and community sentencing).
There is no considerable benefit in giving a community sentence to a 16 - year - old who has threatened another citizen with a knife.
Community sentences are failing to protect the public and are producing a «revolving door system» which results in an unacceptably high recidivism rate, according to a new report.
The report reveals 90,029 community sentences have been given to people who have multiple previous convictions for more serious crimes.
This appears to contradict the claims made by David Hanson MP who, in 2008, said prison «is not necessarily the best route for less serious offenders» and community sentencing «cuts the likelihood of re-offending on release, and in doing so cuts crime».
The Centre for Crime Prevention (CCP) report revealed that 76 % of criminals sent to prison in 2011/12 had previously been given community sentences.
The community sentences were often justified by supporters as a better alternative to the high number of short prison sentences.
He also warned that people with drug addictions were better served by a community sentence, although this required «much better» rehabilitation facilities.