Criminal Justice

Social Innovation

Education, Childhood & Youth

Incomes, Work & Poverty

Housing & Homelessness

GUIDE

British Journal of Community Justice

Reducing Reoffending

Latest Outputs

Confronting intergenerational harm: Care experience, motherhood and criminal justice involvement


This paper explores how criminalisation, care experience and motherhood may intersect to produce multi-faceted structural disadvantage within both systems of care and punishment.

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Doing Gig Work – Illustrated Material Published


Publication aims to raise awareness about the platform-based gig economy

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A Difficult Balance: Challenges and Possibilities for Local Protocols to Reduce Unnecessary Criminalisation of Children in Care and Care Leavers


This article explores the challenges and possibilities of using local agreements to divert children in care and care leavers away from formal justice systems contact.

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TASO ‘Impact Evaluation With Small Cohorts: Methodology Guidance’ published online


We have been working with TASO to develop guidance on evaluation with small cohorts and it is now available on their website. TASO’s focus is widening participation and improving student outcomes in higher education but the guidance can be applied to many areas of social policy evaluation.

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Are Social Impact Bonds an Innovation in Finance or Do They Help Finance Social Innovation?


Using data from the Social Finance UK Database and focusing on SIBs in the US and UK, Olson et al. evaluate whether the SIB approach aligns with the theoretical predictions of social innovation.

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