Options for justice reinvestment

20/06/2013

What are the economic and social costs of imprisonment and recidivism? How can governments halt the increasing incarceration rate in Australia? What if it was possible to curb spending on corrections and reinvest the savings from this reduced spending in strategies that can decrease crime and strengthen neighbourhoods? The Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee discusses these issues and more in a newly tabled report, Value of a Justice Reinvestment Approach to Criminal Justice in Australia.

20 June 2013