The ninety-fourth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award

This week's winner is Ex-Home Office criminologist Professor Ken Pease who has said that community sentences have no evident effect on re-conviction rates in their current form. Apparently using community sentences to replace short prison sentences simply

"freed the group most likely to re-offend to do so sooner, with no evidence of a current treatment benefit from community sanctions to offset that."

"No shit, Sherlock"


And Ken Clarke please take note.