'Intensive Surveillance and Supervision Programme'? Sounds scary.
The name is tough, presumably to ward off accusations that alternatives to custody schemes are soft on crime and on the causes of crime.
And is it as tough as it sounds? Well, as you would expect, there are two elements here. The supervision part involves regular contact, on average 25 hours a week, with an ISSP worker from a Youth Offending Team (YOT).
This involves purposeful activity such as education and training, examining offending behaviour and making reparation to victims.
Many young offenders will say that being social worked, or being made to look at their behaviour, having someone on their case all the time, is a tougher experience than actually doing time, notwithstanding recent revelations about the gruesome state of the privately run Ashfield Young Offender Institution.
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