Judge For Yourself With New Interactive Tool

An innovative on-line programme in which members of the public can decide what they think is the most suitable sentence for virtual offenders has been launched as a new poll shows the public think reforming offenders to cut re-offending is equally as important as punishment.

The survey, which analyses the public’s understanding of community sentencing and their views around crime and punishment, showed that 82% thought rehabilitation was as important, or more important, than punishment when sentencing offenders. The survey polled over 3,000 people across England and Wales and revealed only 25% of the public understood what makes up a community sentence, typically a combination of rehabilitation and punishment.

Judge for Yourself allows people to go on-line and experience the work of probation first hand. Based on examples of real cases, people can ask for more information on each offender, get advice from the probation officer involved and select the sentence they think is appropriate. If this is a community sentence, you can choose from the 12 requirements available to create a package for the offenders to rehabilitate as well as punish.

To take part in the interactive programme follow the link:

http://www.ezstream.co.uk/coi/

Protecting The Public

The National Probation Service, Sussex aims to protect the public, reduce re-offending, ensure the proper punishment of offenders and support victims.

We work with people who have committed different types of offences such as burglary, violence, car crime and sex offences.

Preventing re-offending

We provide probation supervision, offending behaviour programmes and specialist support services, which aim to stop people committing further offences.

We work to:

Safely supervise people serving their sentence in the community
Ensure people complete their community sentences and take them back to court if they don't
Prevent people from committing more crimes
Prepare prisoners for release
Supervise prisoners who are released into the community on licence
Liaise with victims of serious crime.

So you think probation supervision is a soft option?
Find out more about probation Supervision, Orders, Programmes, Reports, hostels and our work in prisons on this website.

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