Scottish Government

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IN-STREET INTERVIEWS AND PUBLIC DISCUSSION EVENTS

REDUCING REOFFENDING IN SCOTLAND

Sue Granville and Janet Biggar, George Street Research

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the members of the Reducing Reoffending Division at The Scottish Executive who provided input and offered advice as required, and members of the general public who agreed to participate in discussions and interviews undertaken during this programme of research.

CONTENTS

Executive Summary

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER TWO METHODOLOGY AND SAMPLE
2.1 Methodological Approach
2.1.1 Quantitative Research among the General Public
2.1.2 Qualitative Research among the General Public
2.2 Setting the Context

CHAPTER THREE EXPERIENCE OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
3.1 Personal experience
3.2 Views on Priorities for the Criminal Justice System

CHAPTER FOUR ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES FOR REDUCING REOFFENDING
4.1 Weaknesses of the Current System
4.2 Suggestions For Improvements to the Current System
4.3 Lead Responsibility

CHAPTER FIVE THE PURPOSE OF PRISON
5.1 Alternatives to Prison
5.1.1 Community Sentences
5.1.2 Tagging
5.2 Preferences for Custodial and Non-Custodial Sentencing
5.3 Managing Sentencing to Help Reduce Reoffending

CHAPTER SIX ADDRESSING REOFFENDING
6.1 Views on Interventions
6.2 Offender Programmes

CHAPTER SEVEN REDUCING REOFFENDING
7.1 Services Involved in Reducing Reoffending
7.2 Preferences for Organisations to Manage Reoffending

CHAPTER EIGHT EFFECTIVENESS AND VALUE FOR MONEY

Annex 1 Location of In-street Interviews and Discussion Events
Annex 2 The In-Street Questionnaire
Annex 3 The Topic Guide
Annex 4 Quantitative Data from Discussion Events

TABLES

CHAPTER 2
2.1.1 Sample Profile - In-street Interviews
2.1.2 Sample Profile - Discussion Event Participants

CHARTS

CHAPTER 3
3.1 Involvement with the Courts or Justice System
3.2 Importance of Issues for The Scottish Executive to Deal With

CHAPTER 4
4.1 Awareness of weaknesses in the criminal justice system
4.2 Level of importance for Scottish Executive to deal with weaknesses

CHAPTER 6
6.1 Usefulness of Measures for Reducing Reoffending

CHAPTER 7
7.1 Importance of organisations to be involved in reducing reoffending
7.2 Rating of agencies to deal with reoffending