Systematic Review & Rapid Evidence Assessment Archive

A realist review of interventions used to prevent and reduce the use of restrictive practices on adults with learning disabilities in NHS and independent sector settings (LEARN)


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.

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A Rapid Evidence Assessment to assess the outcomes of community and custody delivered vocational training and employment programmes on reoffending


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.

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Review of Grandmentors programme


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

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Innovative Social Investment: Strengthening communities in Europe (InnoSI)


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

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Justice Reinvestment


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.

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Hidden Harm


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.

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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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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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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.

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In-work progression


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

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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Homelessness and the Private Rented Sector


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

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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.

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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.

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English and Welsh experience of marketisation


Payment by results and justice devolution in the probation sector

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The ethical challenges of evidence-based policy research


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

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‘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.

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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

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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).

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Knowledge Mobilisation and the Social Sciences


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

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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.

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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.

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