ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author looks at splitting up the Probation Service, in effect producing the National Probation Service alongside the Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs). He also looks at the way the market has been opened, if at all, and then at Payment by Results. There were three major aims in Transforming Rehabilitation. It was claimed they would change the rehabilitation of selected offenders to the point where it would reduce the reconviction rate and alter the way offenders were dealt with. They are A split in the provision of community services between a National Probation Service and private sector companies; Opening up the market to a diverse range of providers; A "Payment by Results" (PbR) incentive to pay for reductions in reoffending. That is to say Grayling sought a form of privatisation which involved the creation of CRCs and a system of PbR – said to be an innovation in criminal justice.
