Integrated offender management in England and Wales

This paper will introduce Integrated Offender Management in England and Wales, its history and the recent changes introduced as part of the 2021 National Refresh of IOM. We will set out some of the basic parameters of IOM, its main features, and the research we have been involved in. IOM is a programme of community supervision of individuals who commit crimes persistently. Community supervision is provided through integrated management by police and probation services. The collaboration between police and probation services – two organisations with different ethos and value systems but both under significant pressure in terms of public confidence – allows for observation of how the cultures of the organisation and the values of individuals come together. IOM is community based and the way it is organised differs across different police and probation services and depends on very localised arrangements, including whether or not IOM is co-located in community hubs, based in police stations, or in probation premises. The paper will reflect on the current evidence on the effectiveness of IOM in supporting individuals with the most persistent record of offending behaviour in the community