RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CONTACTS

“Giving a voice to the victims of crime” All Criminal Justice Agencies are committed to putting the victim at the centre of the system. If Restorative Justice is entirely voluntary. It is a you are not satisfied with the service you have means for you and the person who offended received please contact the appropriate agency INFORMATION FOR against you to communicate with each other – to below: say what you want about the crime, how it VICTIMS POLICE affected you and what you would like to see Dorset Police Force Headquarters happen about it. OF YOUTH CRIME Restorative Justice can enable offenders to Dorchester DT2 8DZ understand the consequences of their actions – they can be helped to see the victim as a www.dorset.police.uk person, which can have a profound effect on Tel: 01202 223808 / 01305 223808 changing their behaviour in the future. E-mail: [email protected] By getting involved in the Restorative Justice or visit your local police station process you may be able to have your needs met, and it may bring closure following your ______experience of being a victim. The Police or DORSET POLICE YOUTH JUSTICE Youth Offending Team will contact you in order to explain the Restorative Justice process in Tel: 01202 223276 more detail and offer you the opportunity to participate. DORSET YOUTH OFFENDING TEAM Tel: 01305 221400 A GUIDE TO METHODS OF USEFUL NUMBERS & YOUTH DEALING WITH YOUNG POLICE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE UNITS OFFENDING TEAM OFFENDERS Bournemouth & Poole: 01202 220502 Tel: 01202 453939

Ferndown: 01202 226089 / 01202 226093 ______Weymouth: 01305 226547 VICTIM SUPPORT DORSET DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HELPLINE: Unit A19 Arena Business Centre 0808 2000247 Holyrood Close, Poole BH17 7FJ

CHILDLINE NATIONAL HELPLINE: 0800 1111 Tel: 01202 606200 Fax: 01202 606201 One Team, One Vision E-mail: [email protected]

NSPCC HELPLINE: 0808 8005000 ______

DORSET RAPE CRISIS: 01202 308855 CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE CPS Dorset LESBIAN AND GAY LIAISON OFFICER: Oxford House Committed to a Safer Tel: 01202 222222 (and ask for LAGLO) Oxford Road Dorset for You E-mail: [email protected] Bournemouth BH8 8HA

DORSET RACE EQUALITY COUNCIL: www.cps.gov.uk/dorset

Tel: 01202 553003 Tel: 01202 498700 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] DEALING WITH YOUNG FINAL WARNING REPARATION ORDER OFFENDERS Usually given for second or subsequent conviction A Final Warning may be delivered by a Police in Court and set in hours to be carried out over a Officer of the rank of Sergeant or above, and is period of weeks/months. Victim should be Dorset Police is committed to reducing offending contacted for their wishes to be taken into account and re-offending behaviour by young persons given for a second offence, or for a more severe first offence. The Police will keep a record of the (e.g. direct reparation). and seeks to achieve that by aim by adopting a proportionate and progressive response. Final Warning and it may be referred to in any future criminal proceedings. YOUTH REHABILITATION ORDER Enables the Courts to create a sentence Effective youth justice involves not only The local Youth Offending Team (YOT) will meet with the offender before the Final Warning is given. specifically designed to deal with the individual appropriate intervention and action with circumstances of the Young Offender by imposing offenders to prevent re-offending, but also gives The team, which has members from the Police, Probation, Education, Social Services, and one or more of a number of different requirements victims a voice and brings justice to communities which must be complied with within a specified affected by crime by using Restorative Justice Health and Youth Services will assess the offender’s behaviour and prepare a voluntary period (a maximum of 3 years). where possible. rehabilitation programme. This programme will be designed to tackle the DETENTION & TRAINING ORDER (DTO) Where there is sufficient evidence that a young Part of the sentence is served in detention, and person (aged 10-17 years) has committed an offending behaviour, to prevent any future offending, and to help repair some of the harm the remainder in the community. A meeting is held offence, a number of factors need to be to establish what work the offender will do whilst in considered before prosecuting. The various done. The Final Warning can be given at a suitable place custody, and subsequently in the community. disposal methods available for Young Offenders and their implications are set out below. in the victim’s locality or the area where the offence was committed. If the victim and the offender both INTENSIVE SUPERVISION & SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME (ISSP) RESTORATIVE REPRIMAND agree to Restorative Justice, then the process will involve a conference attended by a specially For serious offenders as an alternative to custody or as part of the community element of a DTO. This the lowest level of disposal and can be trained officer, the victim and offender. Offenders partake in a minimum of 25 hours used for less serious offences provided that both intervention in any one week, including the the offender and the victim agree. The disposal CHARGE weekend, over a 3 month period, and are also provides an opportunity to divert the offender The Police, often in consultation with the Crown subject to curfew. away from entering the Criminal Justice System Prosecution Service, may decide to Charge a as well as the benefits of Restorative Justice. It Young Offender. They will then be put before the PARENTING ORDER is delivered by a specially trained officer at a Court to be dealt with. May consist of two elements. The first requires the restorative conference which is attended by the parents to attend counselling or guidance offender and victim (if they wish to be present). sessions. The second element is discretionary – DEALING WITH CHARGED there may be a requirement to exercise control REPRIMAND YOUNG OFFENDERS AT COURT over their child’s behaviour.

If convicted at Court, a Young Offender may be Police Reprimands may be delivered by a Police dealt with in one or more of the following ways: CONDITIONAL DISCHARGE Officer of the rank of Sergeant or above, and are No penalty is imposed, unless the young person only given to young offenders who have not REFERRAL ORDER re-offends during the stated period. previously offended. Reprimands may be Given for first conviction in Court, but only where referred to in any future criminal proceedings. the offender has pleaded Guilty. Lasts for 3-12 ABSOLUTE DISCHARGE The Police will keep a record of the Reprimand months and involves contact with a Youth May be given by court after a finding of guilt or and any further offending behaviour will result in Offending Team throughout. Involves reparation confession in exceptional circumstances, or for a Police Final Warning or Prosecution. and interventions to prevent further offending. trivial or minor misdemeanours. No penalty or punishment imposed.