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← Criminal justice acronyms

Acronym

Five Minute Intervention

A scheme introduced in Prisons, to encourage staff to use their personal skills & spend "5 minutes" talking with prisoners to try & reduce risk of harm, violence etc, with the idea being to reduce violence in prisons. "In prison, the everyday conversations we have can provide rehabilitative opportunities. When you use procedural justice principles and FMI skills you can help people to think and behave differently."