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The idea that naming and shaming offenders will \u201cbuild confidence\u201d in community sentences is beyond belief (Report, 26 September). I\u00a0thought we had moved beyond the middle ages. Do ministers not realise that this is playing to the mob and the politics of revenge?<\/p>\n
People serving community sentences have already faced the courts and publicly carried out their sentencing. To name and shame adds to their humiliation and the sense that they are pariahs in society. It incites (to my mind, justifiably) resentment. How is this rehabilitation? How does it build a\u00a0more cohesive and caring society? What builds confidence in community sentencing is that it can\u00a0boost offenders\u2019 sense of having\u00a0something to contribute to\u00a0their local community\u00a0and\u00a0society at large. Re your editorial on criminal justice reform (20 September), I\u00a0believe that the approach used for motoring crimes \u2013 a fine and points that accumulate, leading to a driving ban \u2013 could be readily adapted to other low-level criminal activity, with the number of points reflecting the seriousness of the offence, and 12 points garnered within, say, three years leading to a sentence of 12\u00a0months in jail.<\/p>\n This sword of Damocles approach to sentencing would, as with motorists, serve to concentrate the minds of most petty offenders, by far the majority, and free up overstretched police and magistrates court resources. Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong>email<\/em><\/strong> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong>letters<\/em><\/strong> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The idea that naming and shaming offenders will \u201cbuild confidence\u201d in community sentences is beyond belief (Report, 26 September). I\u00a0thought we had moved beyond the middle ages. Do ministers not realise that this is playing to the mob and the politics of revenge? People serving community sentences have already faced the courts and publicly carried<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[534,4516,2282,838,14865],"class_list":{"0":"post-24492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-community","9":"tag-criminal","10":"tag-justice","11":"tag-reform","12":"tag-sentencing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Ruth Windle<\/strong>
Frome, Somerset<\/em><\/p>\n
Peter Fellows<\/strong>
Bradford<\/em><\/p>\n