1. CRIMINAL JUSTICE CHAMPIONS EVENT
REDUCING RE-OFFENDING
03 February 2012

2. Reducing Re-offending – Why is it Important?
Re-offending Costs!
• For every repeat crime there is another victim
• Direct costs of detection, arrest, prosecution and sentence
• Costs to offenders, families, and neighbourhoods
• Intergenerational offending –
father to son/daughter; mother to son/daughter
• Dysfunctional people cost –
Adult & Children Social Care
Health
Local Authority
Housing

3. Current Policy Drivers
• HIGH ON POLITICAL AGENDA
• EVIDENCED LESS CRIME AND REDUCED RE-OFFENDING
• IMPROVED PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS AND CREDIBILITY
• VALUE FOR MONEY AND PAYMENT BY RESULTS
• REDUCTIONS IN COSTS WHILST MAINTAINING QUALITY
• NEED TO ESTABLISH WHAT WORKS
• TENSIONS BETWEEN REHABILITATION AND PUNISHMENT
• SENTENCING REFORM
• POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONERS

4. Criminal Justice Champions Event
• Opportunity to share good practice and good
news
• Stimulate discussion between agencies,
voluntary partners, sentencers and local
communities
• Consider current Policy reforms
• A day in the life of a Probation Officer
• A chance to become a Sentencer

5. Reducing Re-offending in North East
Lincolnshire
Vision
“Working in Partnership to reduce re-offending and make our
diverse communities safer places”.
Agencies and Lead Partners
HPT is the Lead Agency
Partners include: Humberside Police; Youth Offending Teams;
HM Courts Services; Crown Prosecution Services; Prisons;
Community Safety Partnership (Safer and Stronger
Communities). Service Providers: Health; Housing; Job Centre
Plus. Specific Interventions: Empower; G4S. VANEL –
Community Payback; Volunteers.

6. Reducing Re-offending in North East Lincs
Good News – Excellent Results
HPT, YOS, DIP – Manage over 1,000 offenders at any one time
2008-2010 – A Division (Grimsby) has demonstrated a 32% in
recorded Serious Acquisitive Crime
A Division is in the top 5% of all Crime and Reduction
Partnerships nationally (Source IQUANTA)
A Division demonstrated a 35% reduction in re-offending against
Prolific and Priority Offenders in 2010
Youth Offending down 32% 2009-2010
Class A drug related offending down by 31%

7. Key Success Factors
• Integrated Offender Management in North East
Lincolnshire
• Key Offender Identified Early, Targeted and Intensively
Managed – Gold, Silver, Bronze
• Strong Partnership Links: Probation; YOS; Police;
Health; DIP/AIP; Courts; Prisons; VANEL; Housing;
G4S; Empower
• Clear Governance and Accountability

8. Green Paper
Rehabilitation Revolution
• Punishment and Payback
(including making Prisons places of work and enhancing payback
in Community Sentences)
• Rehabilitating offenders to reduce crime – including treating
substance misuse dependency, addressing mental health needs
and ensuring an Integrated Offender Management approach
• Payment by Results – Paying Providers by the results they
achieve
• Sentencing Reform – improve transparency of sentencing and
better use of Custodial and Community Sentences (Legal Aid
Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill)

9. Reducing Re-offending – What Works
QUALITY ENGAGEMENT WITH OFFENDERS
• Taking time to listen
• Giving focus to practical and social problems as well as attitudes,
thinking and behaviour
• Expressing and encouraging motivation and hope
• Recognising offenders’ strengths and resources and building on existing
supports
• Giving practical assistance in problem solving – not simply solving the
problem
• Setting goals collaboratively
• Having and sharing good knowledge of all available resources to refer
offenders to.

10. Reducing Re-offending
What Works – Desistance
• Suitable and stable place to live
• Forming strong and supportive bonds with others not involved in
crime
• Overcoming dependence on drugs and alcohol
• Finding steady employment
• Feeling hopeful and motivated
• Having the opportunity to give something back
• Having a place within a social group
• Having someone else believe in them and their ability to change
• Developing confidence to negotiate/engage with interviews,
services, banks, power companies.

11. Reducing Re-offending
Interventions that Work – Best Practice
• Employment – focussed programmes in which
offenders secure real jobs
• Structured Cognitive Behavioural Programmes
evidence based and targeted at medium-high risk
offenders
• Structured therapeutic communities for substance
misusing offenders
• Substitute prescribing combined with counselling
• Family based interventions with juvenile offenders