Local Justice, Local Rehabilitation

A top-down, national approach to offender management is failing. The punishment and rehabilitation of offenders requires too intensive, personalised and local a response to be managed successfully at national level. To have any impact on preventing reoffending, the criminal justice system must become locally managed and locally led. And local communities need their say.

The recent government review by Louise Casey has highlighted the extent to which communities feel disconnected from the justice system and do not feel it puts victims, witnesses and law-abiding citizens first. This report will propose a fundamental step-change in the way local communities, local authorities, criminal justice agencies and the third sector manage and rehabilitate offenders. Our work will recommend an entirely new, locally led, post-sentence criminal justice system to engage citizens, properly manage the resettlement of offenders, deliver community reparation, and most importantly, reduce reoffending.

For further information please contact Anna Turley.


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