Criminal Justice

Social Innovation

Education, Childhood & Youth

Incomes, Work & Poverty

Housing & Homelessness

GUIDE

British Journal of Community Justice

Reducing Reoffending

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‘Good stories get lost in bureaucracy!’


Cultural biases and information for co-production

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A New Agenda for Co-Creating Public Services


This paper draws together key findings from CoSIE with a particular focus on what these imply for new policy and practice in public services in the form of a discussion paper aimed at European, national and regional policy-makers.

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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.

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Mentoring: Can you get too much of a ‘good thing’? Proposing enhancements to the ‘effectiveness framework’ of the England and Wales Prison and Probation Service


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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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.

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Evaluation of Whole School SEND (WSS) Review: A cluster randomised controlled trial


Protocol for a two-arm parallel cluster Randomised Controlled Trial

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