How can we improve the transition from the secure estate for children and young people to the adult estate?

Background

We want to provide decent, safe and secure accommodation that supports individuals in their rehabilitation. We want to reduce levels of violence and self-harm and develop the evidence on what structures and interventions can help improve outcomes for individuals in prison.

Next steps

We can be contacted at the following email address: evidence_partnerships@justice.gov.uk.

Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Areas of research interest

Related UKRI funded projects

  • The "Rehabilitation Prison": An oxymoron or an opportunity to radically reform imprisonment?

    Prisons are experiencing numerous problems: rising numbers, 'new' populations requiring specialised care (e.g. elderly men, military veterans); an ageing and dilapidated estate that spatially exacerbates effects of overc...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project partially answers the question by discussing the challenges and problems in the secure estate for children and young people, but does not provide specific solutions or improvements.

  • Design tools for healthy prison environments

    Matter Architecture is leading a project to develop a set of design tools for improving rehabilitation through the architecture of prison environments. Together with Space Works we are connecting evidence from the field ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on designing tools for improving rehabilitation through the architecture of prison environments, which directly addresses the question of improving the transition from the secure estate for children and young people to the adult estate.

  • Secondary analysis of data collected over a 20 year period by HM Inspectorate of Prisons

    This proposal uses data from over 100,000 prisoner surveys conducted by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales (HMIP) over the last twenty years to examine how prisoners' reports of their treatmen...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project partially answers the question by using data from prisoner surveys to examine the treatment and conditions in prisons, but does not specifically address the transition from the secure estate for children and young people to the adult estate.

  • "Fear-suffused environments" or potential to rehabilitate? Prison architecture, design and technology and the lived experience of carceral spaces

    This research investigates developments in the design of prisons, exploring the propositions that punishment is manifested architecturally, that 'good' prison design need not cost any more than 'bad' design, that archite...

    Funded by: ESRC

  • 'A good life in prison': Everyday ethics in a prison holding young men

    Young men in prison have a particular position in the criminological and policy imagination. They are generally seen as both damaged and damaging, as people who are vulnerable to suicide and self-harm and simultaneously ...

    Funded by: ESRC

  • Prison Regulation, for Safer Societies: Participatory, Effective, Efficient?

    In May 2019, Dutch courts refused to deport an English suspected drug smuggler, citing the potential for inhuman and degrading treatment at HMP Liverpool. This well publicised judgment illustrates the necessity of my FLF...

    Funded by: UKRI FLF

Similar ARIs from other organisations

Sentencing, Prisons & Rehabilitation - Sentencing What evidence exists on the impacts on children of imprisonment of a family member? How can we better understand the short and long-term impacts on children of the imprisonment of a family member? Scottish Government Justice Analytical Services, 2025
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