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.

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.

In partnership with the Ministry of Justice and the Barrow Cadbury Trust, PERU researchers are undertaking a qualitative study on the views and experiences of participants in the Chance to Change pilots.

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.

Homelessness and welfare reform in England

Response to Department for Work and Pensions call for evidence and good practice on in-work progression.

Educational preventing violent extremism (EPVE) programs have had (to date) little if any theoretical underpinning.

PERU were partially funded by the Ministry of Justice to undertake a Rapid Evidence Assessment (REA) to assess the outcomes of community and custody delivered vocational training and employment programmes on reoffending.

A rapid evidence summary

Probation provision is complex, with a range of providers dealing with diverse service users and performing differing functions.

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.

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.

Examining the effectiveness of remote supervision approaches and emerging new technologies to manage probation service users and assist with their desistance from further offending.

Homelessness has a devastating effect on those who experience it and is costly to the public purse.

A Rapid Evidence Assessment

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.

This Rapid Evidence Assessment sought to arrive at an updated synthesis of the co-creation and co-production evidence base in the United Kingdom.

Young carers are young people who take on significant caring responsibilities for family members, normally parents or siblings.

Grandmentors Review: Final Report

Payment by results and justice devolution in the probation sector

In Research Ethics in Criminology: Dilemmas, Issues and Solutions (Edited by Cowburn, Gelsthorpe and Wahidin)

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.

In Global Perspectives on Strategic International Partnerships: A Guide to Building Sustainable Academic Linkages

There has been a growing interest among academics, policy makers and practitioners in the subjective well-being of children and young people (CYP).

PERU is leading a large pan-European research project on Social Investment policies funded by the European Commission.

The essays presented in this volume examine knowledge mobilisation and its relation to research impact and engagement.

Social innovation discourses see in social challenges opportunities to make societies more sustainable and cohesive through inclusive practices, coproduction and pro-active grassroots initiatives.

The ‘confidence agenda’ poses important new challenges for Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships in general and the police in particular.

This paper draws primarily on research undertaken in the north of England.

Reviewing the available literature on Justice Reinvestment, interviewing key figures in the Justice Reinvestment movement in the US and looking at projects in the UK that have implemented elements of Justice Reinvestment.

Co-creation and strength-based working as characteristics of social innovation bonds.

Salford Drug Action Team wanted to review aspects of its Hidden Harm strategy and to review a service that it had commissioned to work directly with the children of misusing parents.