Sentences with phrase «from reoffending»

Based on an innovative partnership, this film highlights how investment in strong, nurturing, parent - child relationships can reduce recidivism and keep parents from reoffending.

Only 19 % of the public and 25 % of police officers believe «community sentences are effective at stopping offenders from reoffending».

«I want [released prisoners] to be met at the prison gate, to have a place to live sorted out, to have rehab or training lined up, and above all someone who knows where they are, what they are doing, and can be a wise friend to prevent them from reoffending,» he will say.

Not exact matches

We know from studies going back four decades that maintaining relationships is key to reducing reoffending, but phone calls from prison are made prohibitively expensive.

Reoffending was down 0.4 % from 2012 to 2013.

Renewable energy and recycling can cut budgets and make buildings more sustainable, but the financial advantages extend to the benefits that come from reducing reoffending.

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 board had taken into account formal reviews of reoffending cases, and learned lessons from them, he said, insisting members had taken a «much more stringent approach to the information before them».

In an analysis of data from California, New York and Oregon, Victoria Harris, a forensic psychiatrist at the University of Washington, reported in 2000 that people at these institutions reoffended at a «much lower» rate than untreated mentally ill offenders.

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).

By reducing his current income and requiring him to pay the remainder of his debt immediately upon release, this costs award may prevent Mr. Voisey and other inmates in similar situations from successfully reintegrating into society and may also make them more likely to reoffend.

The risk of reoffending due to mental illness can tip the scales in the direction of not releasing the offender from a closed psychiatric hospital even if the full prison sentence is served or parole might normally be considered.

Skye Bullen, the Community Data Manager from the Maranguka Justice Reinvestment Project in Bourke told the symposium how the Maranguka project uses a community - based participatory research approach to reduce the high rate of Aboriginal children and young people's offending, reoffending and incarceration in adult prison and youth detention.