16
Sep
2016
By Calvin at 09:57 GMT, 7 years ago
I just picked up this interesting story from the West Midlands Police website (one of our linking police services) that tells us about a novel way of reaching out to alleged offenders in detention to encourage them not to reoffend. It’ll be interesting to learn about the outcomes.
A reformed criminal is reaching out to detainees from ‘beyond the cell wall’ in an innovative behavioural science project aimed at cutting crime and reoffending rates.
The force is working with a team of psychologists and academics on trials aimed at ‘nudging’ members of the public to behave in ways designed to cut crime, support recruitment drives and improve efficiency.
One of the initiatives has seen an ex-offender − a man with a string of convictions in his youth for drug and fraud offences − pen words of advice to people who find themselves locked up in a West Midlands Police cell.
The message, hand written on the cell wall in black marker, tells how he broke free from a life of crime and how "it’s never too late" for others to follow his example.
Read the rest by clicking on the source below:
West Midlands Police Source http://www.west-midlands.police.uk/latest-news/news.aspx?id=4940
