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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
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