#reoffending — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #reoffending, aggregated by home.social.
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"Making #criminal #penalties more severe does not necessarily reduce #offending. There is strong #evidence that #criminals respond more to the likelihood of being caught than to harsher #sanctions. A systematic review comparing #custodial & #community #sentences found no evidence that #imprisonment was more #effective at reducing subsequent #reoffending." (From the @ConversationUK article.)
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/13/drug-diversion-schemes-reoffending-rates-police. "Drug #diversion schemes led by #police that steer people away from the #criminal #justice #system & into #treatment & #education #services are significantly more effective in #reducing #reoffending than #prosecution, according to a new #analysis." See: https://www.college.police.uk/research/projects/police-drug-diversion-pdd-realist-impact-process-and-economic-evaluation. This ought to be obvious, @vfrmedia.
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By delivering a curriculum tailored to meet the needs of the workplace, prisons in Cumbria and Lancashire are supporting regional economic growth.
#PrisonerEducation #Reoffending #WorkplaceTraining
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/news/crime-and-justice/how-north-west-prisons-are-driving-up-employment-and-reducing-reoffending/