Stage 1 Report on the Management of Offenders (Scotland) Bill

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- Introduction
  - Overview of the Bill
  - Justice Committee's consideration
  - Consideration by other committees
  - Membership changes
- Part 1 - Electronic monitoring
  - What is electronic monitoring?
  - What does the Scottish Government propose?
    
    Monitoring in criminal proceedings
    
    Monitoring on release on licence
    
    Devices: uses and information
    
    Arrangements and designation
    
    Obligations and compliance
    
    Home Detention Curfews - new proposals
  - Evidence taken on electronic monitoring
    
    Risk assessment, monitoring, compliance and enforcement
    
    Is the extension of electronic monitoring punitive?
    
    Impact of electronic monitoring on families
    
    Resourcing issues and links to other support services
    
    Extension of monitoring to those on bail
    
    Use of new technologies such as GPS and alcohol and drug monitoring
    
    Monitoring in cases of domestic abuse
    
    Electronic monitoring and gender issues
    
    Use of electronic monitoring for children under 18
    
    Use of private contractors and data protection issues
    
    Electronic monitoring and Justice of the Peace courts
    
    Home Detention Curfew
    
    Proposed creation of a new offence of unlawfully-at-large
  - Conclusions on electronic monitoring
- Part 2 - Disclosure of convictions
  - Background
  - What does the Scottish Government propose?
    
    Disclosure periods
    
    Impact of subsequent convictions on disclosure
    
    Public protection: disclosure of spent convictions and prohibited work
  - Evidence taken on disclosure of convictions
    
    What is the purpose of disclosure and has an appropriate balance been struck in the Bill?
    
    Terminology
    
    Employment-related matters
    
    Clarity on the need to disclose convictions
    
    Impact on families
    
    Disclosure and the under 18s
    
    High-level disclosure
    
    Disclosure and domestic abuse
    
    Role of the internet
    
    Potential impact on the insurance market
  - Conclusions on the disclosure of convictions
- Part 3 - The Parole Board
  - Background
  - What does the Scottish Government propose?
  - Evidence taken on the Parole Board
    
    Independence and governance
    
    Risk assessment, common tests and transparency
    
    Role of a High Court judge and psychiatrist
    
    Appointments and duration of membership
    
    Role for victims
  - Conclusions on the Parole Board
- Other issues
  - Disclosure of income forms
- Financial Memorandum
  - Background
  - Evidence on the Financial Memorandum
  - Conclusions on the costs and the Financial Memorandum
- Delegated powers provisions
- General principles of the Bill
- Annex A - Visit by members of the Justice Committee to The Wise Group and G4S, Glasgow, Tuesday 29 May, 2018
- Annex B - Extracts from the minutes
- Annex C - Written evidence
Sources

Image: Visit by a delegation of the Committee to the Wise Group and G4S, Glasgow, 29 May 2018

Image: Estimated costs of Part 1 of the Bill (paragraph references refer to the Financial Memorandum)

Image: Background

Image: Estimated costs of Part 2 of the Bill (paragraph references refer to the Financial Memorandum)

Image: Summary of estimated costs falling on the Scottish Administration from Part 3 of the Bill

Image: Members of the Committee visiting the Wise Group

Image: Members of the Committee meeting G4S staff to discuss electronic monitors

Image: Table 1: Rehabilitation and Disclosure Periods (aged 18 and over at date of conviction)

Image: Table 2: Rehabilitation and Disclosure Periods (aged under 18 at date of conviction)

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Justice Committee 08 May 2018 [Draft], James Maybee, contrib. 24, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=11515&c=2089911

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Justice Committee 08 May 2018 [Draft], Karyn McCluskey, contrib. 73, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=11515&c=2089960

Justice Committee 08 May 2018 [Draft], Pete White, contrib. 209, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=11515&c=2090096

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Justice Committee 05 June 2018 [Draft], Michael Matheson, contrib. 77, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=11582&c=2099187

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Justice Committee 24 April 2018 [Draft], Neil Devlin, contrib. 92, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=11485&c=2085529

Justice Committee. (2018, May 15). Official Report, col 9.

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Justice Committee 05 June 2018 [Draft], Michael Matheson, contrib. 103, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=11582&c=2099213

Edinburgh Bar Association. (2018). Written submission.

Justice Committee 08 May 2018 [Draft], Dr Scott, contrib. 275, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=11515&c=2090162

Justice Committee 22 May 2018 [Draft], Chief Superintendent McEwan, contrib. 40, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=11551&c=2094878

Justice Committee 05 June 2018 [Draft], Michael Matheson, contrib. 89, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=11582&c=2099199

Scottish Women's Aid. (2018). Written submission.

Justice Committee. (2018, May 15). Official Report, col 6.

Justice Committee. (2018, May 15). Official Report, col 18.

Justice Committee 05 June 2018 [Draft], Michael Matheson, contrib. 60, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=11582&c=2099170

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Justice Committee 05 June 2018 [Draft], Michael Matheson, contrib. 64, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=11582&c=2099174

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Justice Committee 08 May 2018 [Draft], James Blair, contrib. 128, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=11515&c=2090015

Justice Committee 05 June 2018 [Draft], Michael Matheson, contrib. 111, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=11582&c=2099221

Justice Committee 08 May 2018 [Draft], James Blair, contrib. 76, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=11515&c=2089963

Justice Committee 08 May 2018 [Draft], James Blair, contrib. 78, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=11515&c=2089965

Justice Committee 08 May 2018 [Draft], Pete White, contrib. 304, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=11515&c=2090191

Justice Committee 08 May 2018 [Draft], Dr Scott, contrib. 306, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=11515&c=2090193

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