A leading think tank says the nation has the chance to get tough on low-level crime (Image: Getty)
Ministers must “grasp the nettle” and introduce a community sentence which robustly punishes offenders and could prevent millions of crimes across the nation, according to a leading think tank. Offenders who have committed offences but are not a danger to the public should be tagged to limit their movement, be forced to do unpaid work and be required to go through mandatory rehabilitation programmes – and could be banned from drinking alcohol and going to pubs and bars – under proposals from the Centre for Social Justice.
The plan is backed by former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith who insists “this not about releasing murderers and rapists”. Former Justice Secretary David Gauke’s imminent report on sentencing options is expected to lead to more use of community sentences. The proposed Intensive Control and Rehabilitation Order (ICRO) would make use of new technology and “guarantee that the convict would be deprived of the liberty that they would normally enjoy”.
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Sir Iain said it would “give the judiciary another weapon in their arsenal to drive down reoffending and reduce the boomerang in and out of prison”. He said the nation’s prisons are “overflowing” and there is “little prospect of new places coming on line for years yet”. He urged the Government to “grasp that nettle and realise that the opportunity here is not just to relieve the over-crowding in our prisons, but to drive down re-offending and release the potential in our prisoners”.
The CSJ’s report declares: “Too often, prison serves as a catalyst for the causes of crime, rather than as a means of remedying them. The consequence is that cycles of criminality fail to be broken, and reoffending continues to blight our streets and our homes. Close to half of those leaving custody go on to reoffend within a year of their release, while the same is true for nearly two-thirds of those sentenced to less than 12 months in custody.”
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Pollsters Opinium gave the public examples of a crime carried out by an unemployed defendant suffering from bereavement and dependent on drugs and alcohol. If the crime was “violent and premeditated”, eight out of 10 Britons backed a prison sentence.
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But if it was an unsuccessful so-called “crime of opportunity”, 62% favoured a community and rehabilitation sentence.
The think tank says the ICRO would be “more robust and more demanding than any existing sentence served in the community”.
The report states: “Administered properly it should command the confidence of sentencers, change the future of a great many offenders who would otherwise continue to offend and prevent thousands, if not millions, of crimes across our nation.”
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England and Wales’s prison population has doubled in the past 30 years and the length of the average sentence has increased by 55% in just over a decade, according to the think tank’s analysis. It warns the social and economic cost of reoffending is an estimated ￡18billion a year.
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Donna Marie-Edmonds, chief executive of the Clink charity, which works to bring down reoffending, said: “Quite often, short sentences for non-violent crimes can have a hugely damaging effect and, in some cases, establish a cycle of reoffending that could have been avoided. We must end this cycle.
“Our in-prison programmes are proven to reduce reoffending and, in turn, the victims of crime. However initiatives such as the tough, new ICRO community sentence have the potential to break the wheel, providing an alternative to custodial sentences and the proper rehabilitation of minor criminals.”