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ANNEX C SAMPLE QUESTIONS ASKED AT REVIEW MEETINGS
Reparation and Payback
1. What would be the best way to re-configure or rationalise the existing range of reparative sentencing options to ensure that they effectively deal with offending from low to more serious levels?
2. Which features of the current reparative sentences should be developed to ensure achievement of an appropriate balance between the rehabilitative needs of offenders and the concerns of the wider community for some form of "payback"?
Rehabilitation and Reintegration
3. What are the barriers to ensuring successful rehabilitation for people on community disposals and how might these issues be overcome?
4. What practical measures can we take in relation to community penalties:
- which will be effective in managing prolific offenders, building on any successful measures or programmes already in place?
- which will help tackle the rising young offender prison population?
5. Can you identify any effective alternatives to custody for women prisoners that could be delivered in the current environment?
Quality and Enforcement
6. What makes a high quality community sentence? And what practical steps can be taken to ensure that the quality of all community sentences reaches that which can be seen in the current exemplars?
7. What changes could be made to the current enforcement arrangements for community sentences which will improve levels of compliance without increasing prisoner numbers?
8. Should we be targeting areas of high deprivation/high crime or does that lead to charges of postcode justice?
Community Engagement
9. What can we do to increase the credibility and use of community penalties as an alternative to custody (as opposed to fines) and in a way which offers a better alternative to prison for the courts, the communities and the offender?
Contact Details
If you have any comments or queries relating to this report you can contact us in one of the following ways:
by email to communitypenalties@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
by phone - 0131 244 3549
or by post to:
Community Justice Services Division,
the Scottish Government,
Room GWR,
St Andrew's House,
Regent Road,
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG.« Previous | Contents | Next »