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DID YOU KNOW 1 34% of men and 8% of women in Britain will have a conviction for a criminal offence before the age of 40. - Information on CJS in England & Wales, Home Office, 1999

did you know 2 It is estimated that every London borough has 1,000 - 2,500 problem drug users involved in the criminal justice system - The London Drugs Policy Forum

did you know 3 The probation service supervises about three times as many offenders in the community as there are in prison. 126,000 people started community sentences in 1999, the highest ever. -Probation Statistics, England & Wales, 1999

Don’t you think, with all these helping hand works .We should have clean streets and lanes . What isa matter with our M.Ps and lazy councellers.

did you know 4 The British Crime Survey estimates there are nearly 15 million crimes a year. This is at least four times the number of crimes recorded by the police. -2000 British Crime Survey

did you know 5 In 1998 the courts sentenced 1.41 million offenders, 4% fewerthan in 1998. -Probation Statistics, England and Wales, 1999

did you know 6 The peak age of known offending is 18 for both males and females. -Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1999

did you know 7 About 60% of a sample of people arrested in four English cities in 1996 tested positive for illegal drugs. -Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1999

The quicker the prison governers stop ,letting them have drugs in prison- to keep them quiet, the better it will be for the uk . Your telling me that they try to stop . people taking their fags in to Dover ,but the police cann’t stop drugs in to prison. Do you think Brits are thet thick.

did you know 8 The average cost of a probation order is £1,860 and £1,630 for a community service order. The average cost of keeping a person in custody for a year is £25,965. Home Office Probation Statistics, England & Wales,1999 and Prison Statistics, England & Wales 1999

did you know 9 The single most effective way of stopping offending is helping offenders find employment. This gives an average 37% reduction in offending. -Meta-analysis, Mark Lipsey, 1995.

This would creat work for the, teach them all the trades for, building a prison.

did you know 10 730,000 hours of work on community service projects are carried out in London each year. Offenders on community service orders carry out work for the benefit of the community.

May I ask. How many hours lighting up a fags.
did you know 11 It is estimated that there are over 120,000 problem drug users in London, including 16,000 dependent on heroin. -Review to develop the London Health Strategy
I think, just board boring people!

did you know 12 Dyslexia affects between 4 -10% of the population. 52% of the randomly selected offenders showed strong indications of dyslexia. -The London Offender Study, 1996

I do n’t think this adds up with the other stats! See if you can see how it lets its self down.

did you know 13 Between 20% and 37% of offenders being supervised by the probation service have been identified as problem drug users, of whom 20% are receiving treatment. -Various surveys of offenders on caseloads.

did you know 14 A Home Office survey of public's awareness of sentencing options found that: 69% of respondents were aware of community service, 35% of the sample were aware of probation, 7% were aware of electronic tagging. -Attitudes to Punishment: Findings from the British Crime Survey, Hough, M and J Roberts; Home Office Research Study 179

did you know 15 Probation officers who deal with drug trafficking arrests at Heathrow airport have worked with 83 nationalities who spoke 28 different languages

did you know 17 The vast majority of offenders (90%) said that their probation officer had offered them help to tackle their drug use. Over half felt that the officer had helped “a great deal”. -South Bank University study of drug users in London, March 2000

did you know 18 What does the general public think about putting people in prison? A small majority of people favour imprisonment for adult burglars - but only when they are given no information about possible sentencing options. If they are told about available community punishments, the balance of opinion swings from a majority preference for prison to a majority preference for community punishments. -Home Office survey of over 8,000 people’s views about crime (quoted on www.Payback.org.uk)

Did you know 19 The prison population at the end of June 2001 was 66,403, which was 1,209 more than at the end of June 2000.

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