Response to Labour Party Justice and Home Affairs Commission
Our response to the Labour Party’s Justice and Home Affairs Commission looks at how to end the ‘revolving door ‘of crisis and crime. It has been informed by our research and policy expertise and an October 2018 consultation with people with recent lived experience of the criminal justice system.
The consultation considered how Labour’s manifesto could help end the revolving door of crisis and crime. It focused on two main questions:
- What we should do to prevent people entering the revolving door
- What we should do to support people so that they exit the revolving door.
Our response proposes a number of ideas in answer to these two questions.
To prevent people entering the revolving door, we should focus on its root causes – trauma, poverty and exposure to community violence. We should also support trauma- and poverty-informed criminal justice responses, divert people away from the criminal justice system and develop effective community sentences.
To provide support to help people exit the revolving door, we should improve probation support and ensure better support when people are released from prison.
