{"id":1899,"date":"2011-03-18T06:54:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T06:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2011-03-18T06:54:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T06:54:05","slug":"convicted-criminals-not-deterred-or-rehabilitated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1899","title":{"rendered":"Convicted criminals not deterred or rehabilitated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-431\" style=\"width:84px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/prison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/prison.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Sentecing does not deter serious offenders<\/div>\r\n<\/div>Both the Telegraph and the Daily Mail have the same headline today \u201cA life of crime: Offences by serial thugs up 50% in a decade\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Figures issued by the Ministry of Justice show a confusing picture of reoffending.<br \/>\nThe re-conviction rate overall fell 24 per cent<br \/>\nThe re-conviction rate classified as the most serious (severe)<br \/>\nrose by 16.0 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Reconviction rates are notoriously difficult to measure, but these figures do confirm the findings last autumn (reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1747\">here<\/a>)\u00a0 that a majority of convicted criminals continue with a life of crime and are not deterred or rehabilitated.<\/p>\n<p>Telegraph <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/crime\/8389600\/Freed-prisoners-graduate-to-violent-crime-after-jail.html\">here<\/a><br \/>\nMinistry report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov.uk\/news\/newsrelease170311a.htm\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentecing does not deter serious offenders Both the Telegraph and the Daily Mail have the same headline today \u201cA life of crime: Offences by serial thugs up 50% in a decade\u201d Figures issued by the Ministry of Justice show a confusing picture of reoffending. The re-conviction rate overall fell 24 per cent The re-conviction rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}