It really isn't good for taxpayers' money or good for victims of crime if people experience the criminal justice system and then go on to reoffend and reoffending rates are running at about 67% often in this area, so we need to get that figure down.
On the importance of reducing reoffending rates.
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When we look carefully at arrest data, prosecution data, conviction data we do see examples of disproportionality, not just in relation to black communities, Muslim communities, Gypsy Roma, Traveller communities.
For centuries, the law failed to protect women from violence at the hands of their partner – whether from marital rape or from abuse behind closed doors. Whilst we’ve made significant progress, we need to continue righting these wrongs.
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