Specified activity to address offending eg engagement in mentoring or offender behaviour programme, education or diversionary activity.
Where warnings are either too late, or insufficient, this hate crime allows us better to track offender behaviour.
The rest, in the never-ending merry-go-round hunt for spare cells, had been shifted to other prisons since the course (which addressed offender behaviour) had started.
The Parole Board views offender behaviour programmes as very important to demonstrate progress, but the number of courses completed by prisoners has fallen".
The system, known as Crush (Criminal Reduction Utilising Statistical History) evaluates patterns of past and present incidents, then combines the information with a range of data including crime reports, intelligence briefings, offender behaviour profiles and even weather forecasts.
In a report last month, Managing the Prison Estate, the Commons public accounts committee said prison overcrowding could be reduced and savings made "if [the MoJ] provided more offender behaviour programmes to help prisoners serving indeterminate sentences to be released at the earliest opportunity".
But in Pentonville a quarter of inmates are in education, and just 3% in offender behaviour programmes; 58% said that finding a prison job was difficult or very difficult – and 53% said they wanted to go to the library but never did.
The prisoner is offered incentives to follow a course of action desired by the prison - go on the offender behaviour course to ensure that our key performance target is met - while making that choice appear rational, especially as it will be the basis for ensuring parole.
We participated in this PAN challenge [47] to explore the patterns of offender behaviour.
