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Safer Society

Safer Society 27% reduction in the rate of reoffending that followed Community justice restorative justice interventions and the cost/benefit data in the Ministry of Justice research, if restorative Change the record justice was offered to 75,000 victims of adult offenders On 13 September Nacro launched a campaign called and assuming just a 40% take up rate, the reductions Change the Record. The campaign aims to help ex- in reoffending would lead to £185 million in criminal offenders in the community back to work by tackling justice savings over two years. discriminatory practice and laws that prevent them The Restorative Justice Consortium’s summary of the Ministry of Justice’s finding a job. A report has been sent to MPs in research on restorative justice is at http://tiny.cc/v25f7 Parliament calling for the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 to be reformed in order that criminal The threat of payback convictions become spent sooner and therefore do Napo has said that Community Payback supervisors are not have to be disclosed to employers. It also proposes increasingly subject to physical and verbal abuse scrapping the limit beyond which convictions can from offenders, with some being so scared of reprisals never become spent (currently a two-and-a-half-year that they http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Safer Communities Emerald Publishing

Safer Society

Safer Communities , Volume 9 (4): 4 – Oct 18, 2010
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Emerald Publishing
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1757-8043
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10.5042/sc.2010.0586
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27% reduction in the rate of reoffending that followed Community justice restorative justice interventions and the cost/benefit data in the Ministry of Justice research, if restorative Change the record justice was offered to 75,000 victims of adult offenders On 13 September Nacro launched a campaign called and assuming just a 40% take up rate, the reductions Change the Record. The campaign aims to help ex- in reoffending would lead to £185 million in criminal offenders in the community back to work by tackling justice savings over two years. discriminatory practice and laws that prevent them The Restorative Justice Consortium’s summary of the Ministry of Justice’s finding a job. A report has been sent to MPs in research on restorative justice is at http://tiny.cc/v25f7 Parliament calling for the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 to be reformed in order that criminal The threat of payback convictions become spent sooner and therefore do Napo has said that Community Payback supervisors are not have to be disclosed to employers. It also proposes increasingly subject to physical and verbal abuse scrapping the limit beyond which convictions can from offenders, with some being so scared of reprisals never become spent (currently a two-and-a-half-year that they

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Published: Oct 18, 2010

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