Compulsory Unpaid Work
This involves demanding and constructive activities, such as conservation work, cleaning up graffiti, or working with a local charity. 2004/05 proved to be a successful year for North Yorkshire with offenders working over 85,000 hours on projects that benefited communities and organisations. See our Unpaid Work page for more information about successful projects and how we can help you.
Participation In Any Specified Activity
These activities may include improving basic skills (such as reading and writing) or making reparation to the people affected by the crime.
Programmes
Accredited programmes are a nationally prescribed curriculum of courses which aim to change the way offenders think and consequently how they behave. They include general offending programmes and others targeting specific offences such as domestic violence and drink driving. In 2004/05 our performance was excellent and we achieved 187 programme completions against a nationally set of target of 160.
Our current programmes include:
Integrated Domestic Abuse Programme (IDAP)
This programme tackles domestic violence and abusive behaviour. IDAP is the latest accredited programme to be adopted by North Yorkshire Area. It is a rolling group work programme for male domestic abusers and it directly promotes the co-operation between the agencies concerned with domestic violence. The purpose is to prevent re-offending and promote the safety of women and children and to work collaboratively with other agencies to manage risk constructively.
Think First
This programme teaches problem solving skills and applies these skills to offending behaviour. Skills taught include moral reasoning, perspective taking, self management and social interaction.
Priestley One-to-One
The Priestley 1:1 programme is a general offending behaviour programme based on a cognitive-behavioural principle and is designed for one-to-one with offenders. It involves exercises that are designed to teach and improve offenders’ social skills, problem solving skills, empathy, self management, goal setting, attitudes and values about crime.
Sex Offender
This programme has been designed for adult male sex offenders whether on a Community Order or on licence after serving a prison sentence. The programme is appropriate for offenders of various degrees of risk. Risk of re-offending is determined by assessment, which gives a base-line rate of reoffending – low, medium, or high. In addition all sex offenders in North Yorkshire are also psychometrically assessed. The information from these two assessments determines an individual’s route through the programme.
Drink Impaired Drivers (DIDs)
This programme employs a combined cognitive behavioural and educational approach. The objectives of the programme are to remedy a number of features thought to contribute to drink-impaired driving: lack of knowledge about alcohol and driving; lack of adequate planning; lack of ability to generate alternatives, and anti-social attitudes.
Prohibition From Certain Activities
An offender may be ordered not to do certain activities at specified times.
Curfew
An offender may be ordered to stay at a particular location for certain hours of the day. Curfews help to structure an offender’s life and break the cycle of offending. They will normally have to wear an electronic tag during their sentence. A local company Securicor Custodial Services fix and monitor the tags in North Yorkshire.
Exclusion
An offender may be prohibited from certain areas (for up to two years) and will normally have to wear an electronic tag during that time.
Residence
An offender may be required to live in a specified place, such as an approved hostel or other residential accommodation.
Mental Health Treatment
After taking professional advice, the court may decide that the offender’s sentence should include health treatment. The offender must consent to this treatment.
Drug Rehabilitation (DRR)
These orders are designed for those offenders whose offences are directly related to their drug habit. They involve intensive contact with probation, drug treatment agency staff and regular reviews in court to check progress. National evidence suggests this programme successfully reduces both dependency on drugs and the amount of crime committed.
The Drug rehabilitation requirement offers low, medium and high levels of interventions, which gives a much greater scope in offering treatments to drug users which match treatment need.
Offenders on the DRR programme are also required to attend review hearings at court. This regular feedback enhances the monitoring process and ensures both the offender and the courts’ are kept up to date regarding the order’s effectiveness.
Alcohol Treatment
This requirement is appropriate for offenders whose crime may be caused by alcohol abuse. An offender must agree to this treatment and it must last for at least six months.
Supervision
This requirement means that an offender’s rehabilitation is supervised by the Probation Service. This requirement may be used with other requirements, such as the participation in specified activities and programme requirements.
Attendance Centre
Offenders under the age of 25 may be required to attend a particular centre at a specified time for between 12 and 36 hours, over the course of their sentence. At the moment there are no attendance centres in North Yorkshire.
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