CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
REPORT
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
1 INTRODUCTION
Conduct of the inquiry
2 BACKGROUND
Government policies
Use of custody
Titan Prisons
The Sentencing Council and the Coroners and
Justice Act
Reform of the governance of the criminal
justice system
Building mainstream provision to reduce crime
and re-offending
3 THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE
CURRENT SYSTEM
Expenditure on prisons and probation
The National Offender Management Service
Efficiency savings
The impact on capacity
The capacity of the courts
The capacity of prisons
The capacity of probation
The capacity of youth offending teams
Costs of system expansion
Effectiveness of prison and probation programmes
in reducing crime
Cost-effectiveness and social impact
of the current system
4 BALANCE BETWEEN PUNISHMENT
AND REFORM
Weaknesses in the capacity of the system
Potentially rehabilitative measures not yet
implemented
Implementing the 2003 restorative justice
strategy
Community prisons
Reform of the Rehabilitation of Offenders
Act 1974
Slow progress reform for particular groups
of offenders
Progress on the Corston and Bradley reports
Alternatives for short-sentenced prisoners
More appropriate provision for young adult
offenders
Coherence of criminal justice policy
Placing victims at the heart of the system
means working to reform offenders
Integrated crime reduction and reducing
re-offending strategies
Cross-departmental accountability
Capacity to prioritise resources
5 DRIVERS OF SYSTEM EXPANSION
The 'politics' of criminal justice policy
Public opinion, politics and the media
Public priorities for criminal justice
The role of the media in shaping public opinion
Building a political consensus
6 BLUEPRINT FOR THE FUTURE:
JUSTICE REINVESTMENT
Justice reinvestment in England and Wales
Support for a more rational use of resources
Localised approaches which benefit victims
and communities
Regional and local structures to facilitate
reinvestment
Integrated Offender Management
Building on existing initiatives
The four stages of justice reinvestment
Stage 1: Justice mapping
Strengthening the methodology for local
strategic planning
The value of justice mapping
Stage 2: Devising options for policy makers
Identifying the policymakers
A mechanism for generating options for policy-makers
Healthcare experience of linking policy
and resources
The quality of research evidence on cost-effectiveness
Applying the evidence to reduce the expansion
of the criminal justice system
Strengthening the evidence base
Building capacity for policy-makers to use
evidence
Stage 3: Quantify savings and reinvest in
select high-stakes communities
Shifting resources to facilitate reinvestment
at national level
Existing mechanisms for reallocating resources
at local level
Devolution of funding to local authorities
Creating financial incentives for reinvestment
New local structures
Stage 4: Measuring the impact of justice
reinvestment approaches
Existing performance measures
More sophisticated measures to assess outcomes
Financing alternative schemes
7 OTHER COMPONENTS OF A MORE
SUSTAINABLE JUSTICE SYSTEM
Engagement with the public
A national debate on spending on criminal
justice
Challenging the media reporting of criminal
justice policy
Building public confidence in the system
Public ownership of local problems
Community engagement in commissioning
Public understanding of the costs of imprisonment
Sentencing and Resources
The Sentencing Guidelines Council and
Sentencing Advisory Panel
The Sentencing Council
Challenges for the Sentencing Council
Promoting 'what works' in sentencing
Shortcomings in the data on sentencing
Promoting cost-effective sentencing
Locally responsive sentencing
Promoting the confidence of magistrates
and judges in community sentences
ANNEX 1: IMPLEMENTING THE REDUCING RE-OFFENDING
AGENDA
Investment in making prison 'work'
Investment in community provision to reduce
crime
ANNEX 2: LOCAL PERFORMANCE FRAMEWORKS
The relationship between local criminal
justice boards, crime and disorder reduction partnerships and
local strategic partnerships, and their component agencies.
ANNEX 3: GLOSSARY OF TERMS
ANNEX 4: JUSTICE REINVESTMENT E-CONSULTATION
ANNEX 5: QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO WITNESSES
FOR ORAL EVIDENCE AND OTHERS QUOTED IN THE REPORT
FORMAL MINUTES
WITNESSES (PAGE NUMBERS REFER TO VOL II)
LIST OF WRITTEN EVIDENCE
REPORTS FROM THE JUSTICE COMMITTEE SINCE
SESSION 2007-08
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 94-II)
WRITTEN EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 94-II)
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