Hampshire's Integrated Offender Management Programme
| DOI | 10.1350/jcla.2011.75.1.681 |
| Date | 01 February 2011 |
| Published date | 01 February 2011 |
| Subject Matter | Comment |
COMMENT
Hampshire’s Integrated Offender
Management Programme
Tom Frost*
Keywords Integrated Offender Management; NOMS, Hampshire
The Institute of Criminal Justice at the University of Southampton, in
collaboration with Hampshire Police, has instituted a research project
that will study the Integrated Offender Management (IOM) Programme
that has begun in the county of Hampshire. The project will run for two
years before publishing its conclusions on the efficacy and impact of
IOM across the Hampshire criminal justice agencies.
The Integrated Offender Management Programme
The Carter Report in 2003, which reviewed correctional services, con-
cluded that since 1997 there had been significant improvements in the
way the criminal justice system managed offenders. However, one of the
Report’s most important conclusions was that far greater use was being
made of prison and probation, despite the number of people arrested
and sentenced remaining broadly the same. As well as this, sentences
were poorly targeted and did not bear down upon serious, dangerous
and highly persistent offenders sufficiently. Because of this, the criminal
justice system was not focusing on offenders and reducing their
reoffending.1
As a result of the Carter Report, the Offender Management Act 20072
was passed and the National Offender Management Service (NOMS)
was introduced. Before the change in government in May 2010, the
Home Office and the Ministry of Justice set ambitious aims for what
Integrated Offender Management (IOM) schemes can achieve.3Since
the change of government, the new Coalition has continued to support
IOM schemes.4
In short, IOM is an overarching framework for bringing together
agencies in local areas to prioritise interventions with offenders who
cause crime in their locality. IOM aims to manage offenders in a more
* Lecturer in Law, Newcastle University; contact as regards this Comment article to
icj@soton.ac.uk.
1 P. Carter, Managing Offenders, Reducing Crime: A New Approach (Home Office: London,
2003) 4–5.
2 Chapter 21.
3 Home Office/Ministry of Justice, Integrated Offender Management: Government Policy
Statement, June 2009, available at http://www.oldham.gov.uk/integrated-offender-
management-govt-policy.pdf, accessed on 20 November 2010; Home Office/Ministry of
Justice, Integrated Offender Management: Key Principles, March 2010, available at http://
www3.hants.gov.uk/iomkeyprinciplesguidance-2.pdf, accessed on 22 November 2010.
4 See Nick Herbert MP speech on criminal justice reform, http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/
media-centre/speeches/nick-herbert-policy-exchange, accessed 22 November 2010.
29The Journal of Criminal Law (2011) 75 JCL 29–36
doi:10.1350/jcla.2011.75.1.681
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