Sentences with phrase «for reoffending»

«Imagine you're a judge, and I tell you I have this highly secretive, highly proprietary, expensive software built on big data, and it says the person standing in front of you is high risk» for reoffending, he says.

Education helps to stop people from breaking the law time and time again, making society safer and reducing a bill for reoffending that costs up to # 13 billion per year.

The most recent official figures for reoffending rates showed the national service was continuing to succeed.

«In prisons there is a literally captive population whose inability to read properly or master basic mathematics makes them prime candidates for reoffending,» Gove said

Not exact matches

I will take you out of moderation, but if you reoffend you will be banned for ever.

The explicit argument is that if governors can reduce reoffending rates, there will fewer criminals in jail, and a lower bill for the taxpayer.

Paying private companies to run prisons, with more cash for those firms which achieve reduced reoffending rates, will now become the centrepiece of the government's approach.

But he suggested that those who reoffend repeatedly, but are only in prison for short sentences, should also form part of the «rehabilitation revolution».

One of the government's flagship new bills for the next 12 months of parliament will usher in a major prisons overhaul in a bid to cut sky high reoffending rates.

Reoffending has been falling slowly but steadily for over a decade.

Sodexo's contract for the north - east will operate in the same location where they run Northumberland prison, meaning they are paid to reduce reoffending and put people in jail.

Back in the Grayling days, the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms were promoted on a prospect of universal support for all prisoners on release - improving lives and leading to a reduction in reoffending.

Grayling has blamed the service for the persistently high reoffending rates of those in jail less than a year.

The truth is this: reoffending rates have hardly changed for a decade — and indeed those for short sentenced prisoners are unacceptably high, with almost 60 % of those sentenced to less than 12 months returning to crime within a year.

She said the over 15,000 people in Ghana's prisons was a good human resource that could be utilized for economic growth and development of the country and so they needed to be equipped with the appropriate vocational skills, saying that would also help to reduce inmates» risk of reoffending, by teaching them useful skills that prepare them for the world outside prison.

Frances Crook, director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said too many children were being sent to prisons where violence contributed to reoffending rates.

We will measure the things that really count: reoffending levels compared to a predicted rate; employment outcomes for prisoners; whether or not the offender went into permanent accommodation; and what progress was made on basic literacy and key skills.

Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who will be sentenced Monday for sexting with a minor, has an «average» risk of reoffending, according to a newly unsealed document released late Friday.

With a justice bill before parliament there is potential for a profound change in the way we respond to all crime that would both improve victim satisfaction and reduce reoffending.

Michael Spurr, chief executive officer of the National Offender Management Service, said: «Doncaster has developed high quality training and resettlement programmes for short term offenders - which have been successful in cutting rates of reoffending.

A fat majority of prisoners - 60 per cent - reoffend within two years, and the figure rises to 74 per cent for young men.

Jacqui Smith, the former home secretary, proposes that prison officers be rewarded for their ability to prevent reoffending, suggests victims should, within limits, be able to recommend the length and type of sentence, and proposes directly elected crime commissioners to represent part of a force area within police authorities, rather than a single crime commissioner for each police authority.

The report also calls for allowing the records of most youthful offenders to be sealed if they don't reoffend, although records of violent felonies committed by anyone 16 or older could be unsealed and used as a predicate in sentencing for any subsequent violent felony.

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.

Labour made a mistake by «playing tough» on crime and allowing the prison population to soar to record levels during its time in government, instead of tackling sky - high reoffending rates, the shadow justice secretary, Sadiq Khan, is to acknowledge for the first time on Monday.

A 2016 ProPublica investigation found that COMPAS, a tool used by many courtrooms to predict whether a criminal will break the law again, wrongly predicted that black defendants would reoffend nearly twice as often as it made that wrong prediction for whites.

People who commit crimes and who are treated, especially in institutional settings, reoffend at rates lower than untreated convicts and offenders without disorders — revealing that for most mentally ill offenders, the issue is not moral but psychological.

Wintemute is aiming to test the effectiveness of the policy by comparing reoffending rates among those whose guns are seized quickly versus those who keep them for longer.

«The measures I have set out today are the beginning of a series of reforms which will help us cut reoffending, make our communities safer and create a justice system that works for everyone.»

People convicted for the first time of alcohol - impaired driving are less likely to reoffend if they have to install alcohol interlocks on their vehicles, a new study of Washington state's interlock law shows.

Alcohol - impaired driving offenders are less likely to reoffend after their interlocks are removed if they have been referred for treatment, a recent study found.

As a starting point, he found that the present crime did not raise security concerns falling within the ambit of such «imperative grounds», as the mere risk of reoffending was not sufficient for this purpose (para 40) and P.I.'s case also had to be distinguished from that of «sexual predators» who indeed created a threat for society at large (para 44).

Brodksy, who acted for J.D.S., says the case reflects the ease with which Ontario Crowns often seek and obtain dangerous offender designations given Klassen's comments that the offender was unlikely to reoffend.

Scientific witnesses are often asked to give probability estimates for certain events, outcomes, or hypotheses, such as the probability of a DNA match or the probability that a convicted offender will reoffend if granted parole.

If the parties can not agree, the Crown will let the presiding Judge or Justice of the Peace know that he or she is seeking the detention of the accused person on one of the three grounds in the Criminal Code: i) the primary ground (that the accused will not attend for court and could flee the jurisdiction), ii) the secondary ground (that the accused is a public safety risk and there is a substantial likelihood he or she will reoffend while out on bail), and iii) the tertiary ground (that the public will lose confidence in the administration of justice should the accused person be released).

The DWI / Drug Court in Collin County targets those drivers who are at high risk of reoffending due unless they receive serious treatment and are held accountable for their crimes.

It is common practice for peace bonds to be used in some domestic violence courts in Alberta where the defendant has been charged with a domestic violence - related offence that is relatively minor and there is a low risk of reoffending, if he is willing to accept responsibility for the offence and undergo counselling (see e.g. Leslie Tutty and Jennifer Koshan, «Calgary's Specialized Domestic Violence Court: An Evaluation of a Unique Model» (2013) 50 Alberta Law Review 731 at 745).

Among those early achievements have been a reduction in police cautions, warnings and move - ons, as well as in driving offences, domestic violence reoffending, and a significant increase in education engagement for the majority of at risk young people.

Panellists will discuss the Change the Record campaign (pictured above right), and calls for greater investment in early intervention, prevention and diversion strategies, and «smarter solutions that increase safety, address the root causes of violence against women, cut reoffending and imprisonment rates, and build stronger and safer communities».

This session will also draw upon the recommendations arising out of the Smart Justice for Young People initiative in Victoria, whereby youth diversion activities have been enormously successful at supporting young people who hover on the cusp of our justice system; reducing reoffending and making communities safer.

Braybrook says a big priority is to provide a safe place — physically and culturally — for Aboriginal women after prison, so they don't reoffend or breach parole, like the Wulgunggo Ngalu residential diversion program for Aboriginal men, which a Corrections evaluation found is «widely valued and supported throughout the justice system».

To date, nobody has been able to predict which program completers are considerably less likely to reoffend, although it is definitely true that program completers are considerably less likely to reoffend than are noncompleters (Peter G. Jaffe, Nancy K.D. Lemon, & Samantha E. Poisson, Child Custody & Domestic Violence, A Call for Safety and Accountability, 57 - 58 (Sage, 2003)-RRB-.