New book on Contemporary Inequalities and the Life Course
This book draws upon perspectives from across the globe, employing an interdisciplinary life course approach.
Outputs,Education Childhood & Youth,Education,Latest News,Education-Outputs
A Rapid Evidence Assessment of the impact of probation caseloads on reducing recidivism and other probation outcomes
Rapid Evidence Assessment finds a growing body of evidence that lower probation caseloads have a positive impact in terms of reducing reoffending in the USA.
A Rapid Evidence Assessment To Assess The Outcomes Of Community And Custody Delivered Vocational Training And Employment Programmes On Reoffending
Rapid Evidence Assessment finds that vocational training and employment programmes were associated with 9 percent fewer programme participants reoffending, when compared with nonparticipants. Studies conducted in the UK were associated with 6 percent fewer programme participants reoffending.
Evaluation of Whole School SEND (WSS) Review: A cluster randomised controlled trial
Protocol for a two-arm parallel cluster Randomised Controlled Trial
Cycling Societies Innovations, Inequalities and Governance
Emerging debates and questions around cycling
Outputs,Social Innovation & Welfare Reform,SocialInnovation-Outputs
Pandemic, Online Learning and its Impact on Migrant Children in the UK
Migrant communities faced stark social and educational inequalities in the UK even before the lockdown and it is anticipated that the pandemic will have only exacerbated these.
Social Impact Bonds 2.0? Findings from a Study of Four UK SIBs
How Social Impact Bonds can facilitate a move to strengths-based service delivery and help drive innovation in public service delivery
Outputs,Social Innovation & Welfare Reform,SocialInnovation-Outputs
Policy failure or f***up: homelessness and welfare reform in England
Homelessness and welfare reform in England
Outputs,Incomes Work Poverty,Incomes, Work and Poverty Outputs,Housing and Homelessness,Housing and Homelessness-Outputs
In-work progression
Response to Department for Work and Pensions call for evidence and good practice on in-work progression.
Outputs,Incomes Work Poverty,Incomes, Work and Poverty Outputs
The Role of Needs Assessment in the Effective Engagement of People with Convictions
This paper argues for “the potential for needs assessment and sentence planning to transcend their core justice functions and set the tone for effective engagement between probation supervisee and supervisor.”
Staying Close evaluation
Publication Date: Monday 02 November 2020
Outputs,Social Innovation & Welfare Reform,SocialInnovation-Outputs
Where Next for Co-creating Public Services?
Emerging lessons and new questions from CoSIE
Outputs,Social Innovation & Welfare Reform,SocialInnovation-Outputs
Using Information Science to enhance educational preventing violent extremism programmes
Educational preventing violent extremism (EPVE) programs have had (to date) little if any theoretical underpinning.
Time to reset the clock on the design of impact evaluations in criminology
This paper highlights how qualitative research can enhance causal explanation in impact evaluations and provide additional causal leverage to findings from randomised experiments.
Outputs,Criminal Justice,CriminalJustice-Outputs,Methods Publications
What Makes for Effective Youth Mentoring Programmes
A rapid evidence summary
Harry Armitage, Kim Heyes, Chris O'Leary, Mariola Tarrega, Emma Taylor-Collins
Modelling the Economic Impact of a Citizen’s Basic Income in Scotland
A report, co-authored by researchers from the Fraser of Allander Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University and IPPR Scotland, looks at the costs and benefits of implementing a basic income in Scotland and the channels through which it may impact upon the economy.
Outputs,Incomes Work Poverty,Incomes, Work and Poverty Outputs
Evaluation Research – The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Criminology
Evaluation is the application of research methods in order to make judgments about policies, programs, or interventions with the aim of either determining or improving their effectiveness, and/or informing decisions about their future.
Towards a Theoretical Framework for Social Impact Bonds
Governments in some of the world’s richest nations appear to be caught in a double challenge of declining social budgets even as social needs are increasing.
Outputs,Social Innovation & Welfare Reform,SocialInnovation-Outputs
Innovation and the Evidence Base
This report explores the concept of innovation and its application to the delivery of probation services.
Outputs,Criminal Justice,Social Innovation & Welfare Reform,CriminalJustice-Outputs,SocialInnovation-Outputs
Putting the community back into payback
This chapter explores how to put communities back into community payback through the use of co-operatives.
If reoffending is not the only outcome, what are the alternatives?
Probation provision is complex, with a range of providers dealing with diverse service users and performing differing functions.
Enabling change:
An assessment tool for adult offenders that operationalises risk needs responsivity and desistance principles
Securing High-quality Data on Populations
Why we need EuroCohort, GGP and SHARE in Europe
Outputs,Education Childhood & Youth,Education Childhood & Youth-Outputs
Procurement and commissioning in the non-profit sector
Procurement and commissioning in the non-profit sector
Outputs,Social Innovation & Welfare Reform,SocialInnovation-Outputs
Evaluating the effectiveness of a family literacy programme on the attainment of children with English as an additional language
A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial
Transforming Research and Policy
A Handbook to Connect Research with Policy Making
Outputs,Social Innovation & Welfare Reform,SocialInnovation-Outputs
Co-creation of Public Service Innovation
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Tech
Outputs,Social Innovation & Welfare Reform,SocialInnovation-Outputs
Co-creation of Public Service Innovation
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Tech
Functional Skills in Prison (Randomised Controlled Trial) – A Pilot Study
This programme of work aims to improve understanding of ‘best’ practice in functional skills education in England and Wales.
Functional Skills in Prison: The Case For a Randomised Controlled Trial
Technical Report and Executive Summary
Using Digital Technology to Improve Learning
EEF guidance report is designed to support senior leaders and teachers to make better-informed decisions based on the best available evidence we currently have.
A Rapid Evidence Assessment on the effectiveness of remote supervision and new technologies in managing probation service users
Examining the effectiveness of remote supervision approaches and emerging new technologies to manage probation service users and assist with their desistance from further offending.
Implementing Innovative Social Investment
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The turn towards a Social Investment approach to welfare implies deploying resources to enhance human capital and mobilise the productive potential of citizens, starting in early childhood.
Outputs,Social Innovation & Welfare Reform,SocialInnovation-Outputs
Evaluating outcome-based payment programmes: challenges for evidence-based policy
We review the state of evaluation within outcome-based commissioning in the United Kingdom.
Outputs,Social Innovation & Welfare Reform,SocialInnovation-Outputs
Social Impact Bonds: More Than One Approach
A look at how social impact bonds differ between projects and geographies, and how those differences impact practical implementation.
Outputs,Social Innovation & Welfare Reform,SocialInnovation-Outputs
Research protocol: Evaluating the impact of Eedi formative assessment online platform (formerly Diagnostic Questions or DQ) on attainment in mathematics at GCSE and teacher workload
This paper describes a cluster randomised controlled trial designed to test the efficacy of Eedi, a formative question setting and diagnostic digital platform, on attainment in mathematics at GCSE as well as its impact on teacher workload.
Homelessness and the Private Rented Sector
Homelessness has a devastating effect on those who experience it and is costly to the public purse.
Outputs,Housing and Homelessness,Housing and Homelessness-Projects,Housing and Homelessness-Outputs
Innovation and Social Investment Programs in Europe
There is a lack of empirical research around sub‐national Social Investment programs, and a lack of connectivity with social innovation.
Outputs,Social Innovation & Welfare Reform,SocialInnovation-Outputs
Whole System Approach for Women Offenders – Final Evaluation Report
The evaluation has found that the WSA provides a good example of a gendered approach to supporting women in contact with the criminal justice system or at risk of offending and has been successful in responding to a number of its key aims.
The Evaluation Market and Its Industry in England
This chapter presents an analysis of the evaluation market in England.
British Journal of Community Justice Volume 6 Number 3
British Journal of Community Justice Volume 6 Number 3
A Realist Model of Prison Education, Growth, and Desistance: A New Theory
This paper articulates the first ‘general theory’ of prison education, offering a new insight into the relevance of desistance theory and understanding of prison sociology to the lives of men engaged in education whilst in prison.
Measuring Youth Well-being: How a Pan-European Longitudinal Survey can improve Policy
This volume presents key findings from the EU funded Measuring Youth Well-being (MYWeB) project which assessed the feasibility of a European Longitudinal Study for Children and Young People (ELSCYP).
Outputs,Education Childhood & Youth,Education Childhood & Youth-Outputs
Co-Creation and Co-Production in the United Kingdom – A Rapid Evidence Assessment – March 2018
This Rapid Evidence Assessment sought to arrive at an updated synthesis of the co-creation and co-production evidence base in the United Kingdom.
Research Protocol: A cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the Family SKILLS programme
The Family SKILLS programme for reception year students from families in which English is an additional language
Outputs,Social Innovation & Welfare Reform,Education,SocialInnovation-Outputs,Education-Outputs
T2A Final Process Evaluation Report
The T2A Pathway initiative, 6 projects led by charities in partnership with statutory services, delivered services to 16-25 year olds across sites in England between 2014-2017.
Outputs,Education Childhood & Youth,Criminal Justice,Education Childhood & Youth-Outputs,CriminalJustice-Outputs
Piloting different approaches to personalised offender management in the English CJS
Various approaches to personalisation are well-established in the UK social care sector and are now starting to ‘travel’ to other sectors.
Grandmentors Review: Final Report
Grandmentors Review: Final Report
Outputs,Education Childhood & Youth,Education Childhood & Youth-Outputs
Understanding Youth Participation Across Europe
From Survey to Ethnography - presents findings from a major cross-European research project mapping the civic and political engagement of young Europeans in the context of both shared and diverse political heritages.
Outputs,Education Childhood & Youth,Education Childhood & Youth-Outputs
Eurosceptic Youth: Interest, Trust and Ideology
Eurosceptic Youth: Interest, Trust and Ideology
Outputs,Education Childhood & Youth,Education Childhood & Youth-Outputs
Socrates & Aristotle:
The Role of Ancient Philosophers in the Self-Understanding of Desisting Prisoners
Study of Early Education and Development (SEED)
Impact Study on Early Education Use and Child Outcomes up to Age Three
The Economic Inefficiency of Student Fees and Loans
In this report, published by the Intergenerational Foundation, Kevin argues that the benefits of a young person getting a higher education qualification in England accrue in the ratio 58% to the nation and 42% to the graduate.
Outputs,Education Childhood & Youth,Social Innovation & Welfare Reform,Education Childhood & Youth-Outputs,SocialInnovation-Outputs
English and Welsh experience of marketisation
Payment by results and justice devolution in the probation sector
A Rapid Evidence Assessment of the effectiveness of prison education
A Rapid Evidence Assessment of the effectiveness of prison education in reducing recidivism and increasing employment
The ethical challenges of evidence-based policy research
In Research Ethics in Criminology: Dilemmas, Issues and Solutions (Edited by Cowburn, Gelsthorpe and Wahidin)
Operationalising desistance through personalisation
This article reports on the early stages of a project to develop a model of offender rehabilitation that operationalises the concept of desistance.
Research protocol published
Professor Stephen Morris and colleagues at NatCen Social Research and Institute of Education publish a research protocol for the Family SKILLS cluster randomized controlled trial
‘Personalisation’: Is social innovation possible under Transforming Rehabilitation?
When the Coalition government’s ‘rehabilitation revolution’ was first articulated, innovation was an important theme, encompassing innovation by frontline staff, by organisations working within a mixed economy and even social entrepreneurs.
Predictable Policing: Measuring the Crime Control Benefits of Hotspots Policing at Bus Stops
A fairly robust body of evidence suggests that hotspots policing is an effective crime prevention strategy.
The 2010-2015 Coalition and Criminal Justice: Continuities and Contradictions
The criminal justice system (CJS) in England and Wales went through extensive reform under the Coalition Government of 2010-2015.
Joining Forces in Facing European Challenges: The CARPE Consortium on Applied Research and Profess
In Global Perspectives on Strategic International Partnerships: A Guide to Building Sustainable Academic Linkages
Globalisation and sticky prices: ‘con’ or conundrum
With reference to a case study which illustrates the existence of segmented markets and international price discrimination, this paper develops a theoretical model of comparative advantage in which domestic prices may be sticky.
Evaluation of the Whole System Approach for Women Offenders Executive Summary Dec 2015
Although women remain a minority group in the criminal justice system (CJS), there is increasing recognition amongst policy makers of the importance of understanding the needs of female offenders in order to better target resources and provide support that is responsive to these needs.
Personalisation: operationalizing ‘desistance’ and commissioning for justice reinvestment
Slides from Clinks 'Just and Affordable Rehabilitation' Conference, London, 1st December 2015
Radical Futures
Youth, Politics and Activism in Contemporary Europe
Outputs,Education Childhood & Youth,Education Childhood & Youth-Outputs
The Current Evidence Base and Future Needs in Improving Children’s Well-Being Across Europe
There has been a growing interest among academics, policy makers and practitioners in the subjective well-being of children and young people (CYP).
Outputs,Education Childhood & Youth,Education Childhood & Youth-Outputs
MYPLACE Election Special
The UK elections take place on the 7th May.
Outputs,Education Childhood & Youth,Education Childhood & Youth-Outputs
Knowledge Mobilisation and the Social Sciences
The essays presented in this volume examine knowledge mobilisation and its relation to research impact and engagement.
The Impact of Weather and Climate on Tourist Demand: The case of Chester Zoo
Warmer, drier summer weather brought by global climate change should encourage use of outdoor leisure facilities.
Markets, privatisation and law and order – some economic considerations
Kevin Albertson discusses the difficulty of aligning private incentives with the public good
The role of social innovation in criminal justice reform and the risk posed by proposed reforms
The UK government has called for a rehabilitation revolution in England and Wales and put its faith in market testing.
Outputs,Social Innovation & Welfare Reform,SocialInnovation-Outputs
ICCJ Monograph No 9: Justice, with Reason: Rethinking the Economics of Crime and Justice
Economic ideas and concepts have always influenced thinking about crime and criminal justice. Increasingly, however, criminologists, policy-makers and practitioners who draw on, or seek to critique, economic ideas take a rather narrow view of economics based on the prevailing orthodoxy: neo-liberalism. Neo-liberalism, vulgarly conceived, assumes society is comprised of self-serving, instrumentally rational actors.
PERU Briefing 14/02: Social Innovation in the Criminal Justice System
In this briefing we highlight the importance of social innovation in the criminal justice system and ask whether reforms to the criminal justice system taking place as part of the Transforming Rehabilitation policy shift will encourage or deter social innovation in the future.
Local Authority Crime Profiles – East of England(January 2014)
East of England region Local Authority Crime Profiles
Personalisation in the criminal justice system: what is the potential?
The criminal justice sector has never achieved rates of re-offending with which the public and policy makers are satisfied.
Justice Reinvestment in an “Age of Austerity”: Developments in the United Kingdom
In the UK, national and local governments are struggling to cope with the economic crisis which ensued in 2008.
‘London Reducing Reoffending Programme’ Evaluation: Executive Summary
The ‘London Reducing Reoffending Programme’ (LRRP) was an innovative Payment by Results (PbR) programme that aimed to reduce youth reoffending in London.
London Reducing Reoffending Programme’ Evaluation
The ‘London Reducing Reoffending Programme’ (LRRP) was an innovative Payment by Results (PbR) programme that aimed to reduce youth reoffending in London.
Social innovation, an answer to contemporary societal challenges?
Social innovation discourses see in social challenges opportunities to make societies more sustainable and cohesive through inclusive practices, coproduction and pro-active grassroots initiatives.
Outputs,Social Innovation & Welfare Reform,SocialInnovation-Outputs
Evaluation of the Intensive Alternatives to Custody pilots
This summary presents the main findings from a range of research, conducted by Sheffield Hallam University and the Greater Manchester Probation Trust, exploring the learning from the Intensive Alternatives to Custody (IAC) pilots.
PERU Briefing 13/01 : Justice Reinvestment Thinking outside the cell
In Crime and Punishment in America, Currie notes that, short of major wars, mass imprisonment has been the most thoroughly implemented USA government social programme of recent times.
Could Personalisation Reduce Reoffending?
Rising prison numbers and high rates of re-offending illustrate the need for criminal justice reform.
Analytical Chemistry
Using Isotopic Fractionation to Link Precursor to Product in the Synthesis of (±)-Mephedrone: A New Tool for Combating "Legal High" Drugs
Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis
Synthesis, full chemical characterisation and development of validated methods for the quantification of (±)-4'-methylmethcathinone (mephedrone): a new "legal high”
Justice Reinvestment: Can it Deliver More for Less?
Recent years have seen high levels of public spending on criminal justice but to relatively little effect
Local Authority Crime Profiles – Yorkshire & Humberside (January 2014)
Yorkshire & Humberside Local Authority Crime Profiles
Local Authority Crime Profiles – West Midlands (January 2014)
West Midlands Local Authority Crime Profiles
Local Authority Crime Profiles – East Midlands (January 2014)
East Midlands Local Authority Crime Profiles
Using social media as a means of improving public confidence
The ‘confidence agenda’ poses important new challenges for Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships in general and the police in particular.
Used and Abused: The Problematic Usage of Gang Terminology in the United Kingdom and Its Implication
This paper draws primarily on research undertaken in the north of England.
Outputs,Education Childhood & Youth,Education Childhood & Youth-Outputs
Crime and Economics: An Introduction
Crime and Economics provides the first comprehensive and accessible text to address the economics of crime within the study of crime and criminology.
Estimating the costs and benefits of an alcohol treatment requirement
Purpose – This paper seeks to report on a project to estimate the costs and benefits of implementing an Alcohol Treatment Requirement (ATR) in Stockport.
Outputs,Criminal Justice,Social Innovation & Welfare Reform,CriminalJustice-Outputs,SocialInnovation-Outputs
Community Legal Advice Centres and Networks: A Process Evaluation
This report sets out the findings of the process evaluation of Community Legal Advice Centres and Networks commissioned by the Legal Services Research Centre (LSRC).
Justice Reinvestment: Can the Criminal Justice System Deliver More for Less?
Rising prison numbers on both sides of the Atlantic are cause for concern. Justice Reinvestment is a major movement in criminal justice reform in the US that is also attracting lots of interest in the UK.