La riforma delle sentenze penitenziarie porterà ad un aumento fino al 6% della criminalità, dicono i capi della polizia
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/06/prison-sentencing-reforms-rise-in-crime-police-chiefs?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
di topotaul
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It’s common knowledge that short prison sentences don’t reduce crime and actually cause more problems for rehabilitation and people looking to move away from a life of crime so this policy is the correct path.
However we also know the current Probation Service isn’t fit for purpose so the expected rehabilitation programmes offered as an alternative to prison sentences aren’t in place and poorly managed.
We also need to understand that the government hasn’t suddenly adopted a ‘pro rehabilitation’ attitude, they’re only enacting this policy because the prison system is literally falling apart and very near collapse. If there were plenty of empty prison cells this government would gladly chuck as many criminals into them as possible.
Seems like a good albiet small step. Research strongly suggests that likelihood of conviction is a much stronger force in preventing crimes than levels of punishment post conviction.
Its shocking but the police solve rate in England and Wales was approximately 6.4% for the year ending March 2024, with an increase to 7.3% for the period 2024/25. This is roughly half what the rate was as recently as 2015.
The headline paints the picture rather darkly. What the police are saying, very sensibly, is that if you don’t send a years worth of short sentences to prison they will be able to commit crimes by virtue of not being in prison but then they expect the recidivism rate to be lower in future, so you open a dam but after the initial flood the natural river is smaller than when you were artificially releasing water in the past.