By punter99 - 3 Mar 23 12:06 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64701020
This article confirms something that has been talked about for a while. It will only apply to those with sentences of over 12 months but that will still be a lot of people. The interesting thing is that they appear to have been put on the register immediately, before the law has been changed.
"While the process to change the law takes place, such offenders will be recorded on the Violent and Sex Offender Register so they "don't fall through the cracks", the government said."
I'm not sure how this is possible, without legislation. On gov.uk, it says this:
"While we are pursuing this legislation, police and the probation service will start work immediately to ensure that from now offenders sentenced to a year or more for controlling and coercive behaviour are recorded on the violent and sex offender register, so that they don’t fall through the cracks."
It suggests that there is going to be a record created on the Visor computer system for them, but not that they will receive regular visits from police, like SO do, because that would require changing the 2003 act. There is also mention of introducing civil orders, which would force them to declare a change in name or address. That is different from SO, who are required to notify police under the law, not because of their SHPO.
The other thing is that when the law is changed, they will be automatically be monitored under MAPPA. At the moment this only happens if the police want to use MAPPA. In future, they won't have a choice. When this occurs, that is presumably when the home visits will begin. The numbers currently on MAPPA are about 80k, with about 70k of those being SO.
With around 2.4 million domestic abuse cases each year, we should see the MAPPA numbers double quite quickly, putting enormous strain on police resources and perhaps leading to less frequent visits for low risk SO.
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By punter99 - 10 Mar 23 11:27 AM
+x+xI did a bit of reading around this and it turns out there are already detailed risk assessments for predicting domestic violence. One of the more interesting ones is cruelty to animals. Apparently if someone is violent towards the family pet, then they are more likely to be violent to their partner. But what was not on the list of risk factors, was hostile attitudes to women. That is not recognised as a risk factor for domestic violence, even though it is a risk factor for sexual offending. 'Attitude towards women' can't be on the list because what if the DA perpetrator is a female? Where do same-sex couples come into DA? So you would have to write on the list 'attitude toward other people' and that's just too vague to have any meaning and very often there's long and parochial stories into the 'why' things happen regardless of gender/orientation etc. This is why what is written in law will be so different to all of these labels that are thrown around and what the public 'thinks' the laws are. Parole is a very interesting watch on BBC 2 by the way.
Yes, Parole is very good and the risk factors in all those cases are much the same. Unresolved childhood traumas, leading to difficulty controlling your emotions, leading to poor coping strategies, which then make their behavior worse. We haven't seen any SO on the program yet, but hopefully there will be one later in the series.
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