good we discussed the issue with political commentator andrea walker and human rights activist peter tatchell. well of course the criminal justice system has 3 main targets terence punishment and rehabilitation of those 3 the most important is of course rehabilitation when an offense has been committed because we don't want that person coming back into the criminal justice system we want to help enable them to get back as a law abiding citizen but i do disagree with peter when he says that rehabilitation has to be the most important part of criminal justice i think punishment needs to be the most important part and if you have rehabilitation in education within that then fine but i just wouldn't if it was me i just wouldn't want to be in a position where i was a victim of violent crime and the person who committed it really got off scot free when it comes to violent offenders the likelihood of really offense goes down by 34 percent and this scheme and the level of victim satisfaction increases to 75 percent which is way way way above the normal average so i think clearly it does have some pos

or get opinion on the issue from political commentator andrew walker and human rights activist peter tatchell. the criminal justice system has 3 main targets to terence punishment and rehabilitation of those 3 the most important is of course rehabilitation when an offense has been committed because we don't want that person coming back into the criminal justice system we want to help enable them to get back as a law abiding citizen i do disagree with peter when he says that we have militated has to be the most important part of criminal justice i think polish that needs to be the most important part well i think it's one of those schemes that is very interesting re offending rates but doesn't do a great deal for victims i think the has to be an element of ensuring that people don't we have found there has to be an element of rehabilitation but also there has to be a punishment for the crime looking at from the victim's point of view i think there are serious questions to be arsed and this this kind of scheme deserves consideration it's really sending rate is one 3rd of one 3rd less than the s

damage let's debate this now with political commentator andrew walker and human rights activist peter tatchell welcome to you both gentlemen. you a fan of this game what do you see is that the positives or perhaps the flaws. well i think it's one of those schemes that is very interesting really offending rates but doesn't do a great deal for victims i think there has to be an element of ensuring that people don't we have found that has to be an element of rehabilitation but also there has to be a punishment for the crime and one of the concerns i've got about this scheme is on some occasions it does not involve admitting guilt and can actually make it quite hard for victims to access things like compensation so look i think we do get it wrong in the united kingdom in terms of the amount of rehabilitation and education that we give to people convicted of crimes or accused of crimes thought we don't do enough for victims i think that we need to be always mindful of the fact that if you've been a victim of something like burglary it can be considered to be quite a severe violation of your home ha