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Breaking the Cycle: Effective punishment, rehabilitation and sentencing of offenders
Nacro’s response
March 2011
About Nacro
Nacro is the largest charity in England and Wales dedicated to reducing crime, helping over
83,000 people each year. Our team of over 2,000 staff and volunteers work with a network of partners through projects in 300 communities. Our experience on the ground gives us unrivalled insight into reducing crime, which informs our positive and pragmatic voice in policy and media debates.
We exist because we want to do something about the destructive impact of crime on individuals and communities. It creates victims, stifles opportunity, generates fear and hostility, and blights lives. We know that by reducing crime we change many lives for the better.
Nacro’s work focuses on three areas: before, during and after people are in trouble:
• Prevention – stopping young people getting into trouble by running services to steer them away from crime, teaching them new skills and creating new opportunities.
• Offender management – working with people in prison, on post-release licences and on community sentences. We challenge them to stop offending, provide positive skills and create chances for people to move on from crime and to give something positive back to their communities.
• Resettlement – helping offenders cope after serving a prison sentence, so they can settle back into the community, find a place to live and access education, training and a job.
Nacro believes that Breaking the Cycle offers a real opportunity for positive reform.
Our response is based on Nacro’s extensive experience of delivering preventive, offender management and resettlement services across England and Wales. In particular we welcome the focus on the victim, putting them at the heart of the reform process and the associated emphasis on outcomes, including payment by results. Much of what is proposed is new and untested. Therefore it is vital
Nacro’s response
March 2011
About Nacro
Nacro is the largest charity in England and Wales dedicated to reducing crime, helping over
83,000 people each year. Our team of over 2,000 staff and volunteers work with a network of partners through projects in 300 communities. Our experience on the ground gives us unrivalled insight into reducing crime, which informs our positive and pragmatic voice in policy and media debates.
We exist because we want to do something about the destructive impact of crime on individuals and communities. It creates victims, stifles opportunity, generates fear and hostility, and blights lives. We know that by reducing crime we change many lives for the better.
Nacro’s work focuses on three areas: before, during and after people are in trouble:
• Prevention – stopping young people getting into trouble by running services to steer them away from crime, teaching them new skills and creating new opportunities.
• Offender management – working with people in prison, on post-release licences and on community sentences. We challenge them to stop offending, provide positive skills and create chances for people to move on from crime and to give something positive back to their communities.
• Resettlement – helping offenders cope after serving a prison sentence, so they can settle back into the community, find a place to live and access education, training and a job.
Nacro believes that Breaking the Cycle offers a real opportunity for positive reform.
Our response is based on Nacro’s extensive experience of delivering preventive, offender management and resettlement services across England and Wales. In particular we welcome the focus on the victim, putting them at the heart of the reform process and the associated emphasis on outcomes, including payment by results. Much of what is proposed is new and untested. Therefore it is vital