Crime reduction policies

An assessment

Policies

Prison Electronic tagging Anti social behaviour orders Community sentencing Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme (ISSP) Drug treatment and testing orders Fines Compensation orders Exclusion orders Conditional discharges Early intervention strategies (e.g. Surestart) Probation Community wardens Neighbourhood Watch Restorative justice

Electronic monitoring - tagging

Electronic monitoring, also known as tagging, allows offenders who might otherwise be imprisoned to be released on curfew, with restrictions imposed on their liberty.

Tagging - evaluation

Can allow early release from prison Reduces number of custodial sentences Restricts movement, especially at night Cheaper than prison (80% cheaper –

National Audit Office) Can help with rehabilitation by allowing

offender to maintain family contact / get a job

Tagging evaluation

Research is divided about effectiveness In 2007, nearly 12% of tags were removed or the

curfew ignored Of the 36,500 tagged in 2006/7, 4,000 re-offended

while wearing the tag It can take almost two weeks to take someone who

breaks the curfew to court When scheme started in 1999, 1 in 40 reoffended.

By 2006 it was 1 in 9

Anti Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs)

Introduced by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 An anti-social behaviour order is an Order of the

Court which tells an individual over 10 years old how they must not behave.

may be issued in response to "conduct which caused or was likely to cause harm, harassment, alarm or distress, to one or more persons not of the same household as him or herself and where an ASBO is seen as necessary to protect relevant persons from further anti-social acts by the Defendant".