Breaking the Cycle of reoffending

One prison in Leeds is working hard at reducing reoffending rates amongst its inmates serving short sentences. The MoJ website has details here. A nice story to use with students to illustrate one of the aims of sentencing in action - particularly as the current Home Secretary casts around for ways of cutting the prison population.

Positive Futures as a whole has been around for a decade or so now, and the Youth Justice Board has an impact report from 2005 with some stats on its effectiveness.

Such schemes are also now provided via private funding, and no doubt this option will be embraced further by the current government as things progress. Manchester’s Choose Change project is one such example which has slashed reoffending rates.