Coalition’s anti-prison policies ignore MOJ data on effectiveness of long sentences
nick cowen, 9 July 2012
Tough prison sentences contribute to reducing property crime, according to a new Civitas report. Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, a Birmingham University economist, shows that prison is effective at reducing crime, especially when targeted at serious and repeat offenders. The report, Acquisitive Crime, shows that for some crime types, longer custodial sentences lead to consistent reductions in crime.
An under trial person have to face so much of trauma that he cannot forget those moments even if he comes out to be clean at the end. However, many a times, the delayed justice is more than a punishment, and care must be taken that the prisoners are human being at the end.
Exactly, the report is pretty balanced but the headlines seem somewhat absurd!
I wonder if I can email him, and if he will respond. As an amateur criminologist, there is much that I enjoyed reading in the report though none of the more sensible analysis seem to have made the headlines!
I’d like to hear comments from Dr Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay. After reading the report I don’t come to the same conclusions as the headlines that are being banded about.