Problem-solving courts to be rolled out

Intensive Supervision Courts, which aim to tackle addiction and other root causes of criminal behaviour, require offenders to attend treatment sessions and regularly report back to the same judge. The courts have already been piloted with more than 200 offenders in Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool and Teesside.

The courts are one of the measures suggested by David Gauke’s Independent Sentencing Review.

Justice minister Lord Timpson said: ‘We won’t cut crime until repeat offenders face up to their behaviour.’