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Crime reduction policies

Crime reduction policies. An assessment. Policies. 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

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Crime reduction policies

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  1. Crime reduction policies An assessment

  2. Policies • 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

  3. Electronic monitoring - tagging • Electronic monitoring, also known as tagging, allows offenders who might otherwise be imprisoned to be released on curfew, with restrictions imposed on their liberty.

  4. Tagging - evaluation • 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

  5. Tagging evaluation • 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

  6. Anti Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) • 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".

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