Home Affairs Committee - Tenth Report
The Government's Approach to Crime Prevention

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 16 March 2010.

Contents

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Terms of Reference

Key facts

Summary

1  Introduction

Background to our inquiry

Context

Progress on crime reduction prior to the introduction of the Cutting Crime strategy in 2007

Evidence base

Overview of the Government's current approach

2  Preventing youth criminality

Context
Risk factors

Approach

Early intervention with young children and their parents

Early reaction

Enforcement

Families

Parenting Orders

Re-directing funding to prevention

Diversionary activities

Schools

3  Reducing re-offending

Context
Scale of the problem

Approach to reducing re-offending

In custody

Overview of rehabilitation interventions

Offending behaviour programmes

Learning and skills

Finding employment

Sentencing lengths

Resettlement

In the community

Prolific and Priority Offender Programmes

Community orders

4  Deterring criminals

Situational crime prevention—Designing-out crime
Approach

Government action

Communication strategies

Developing an early warning system

Public confidence in the criminal justice system

5  Roles and responsibilities

Public sector partnerships

Voluntary and community sector

Business

Conclusions and recommendations

Annex A: Meeting with User Voice

Causes of crime

Schools

Communities

The Criminal Justice System

Voice of the user in decision-making

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of written evidence

List of unprinted evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and Written Evidence

Tuesday 12 January 2010

Tuesday 19 January 2010

Tuesday 2 February 2010

Wednesday 3 February 2010

Tuesday 9 February 2010

Written Evidence

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Prepared 23 March 2010