We want to build confidence and trust in a system that upholds public protection and creates the conditions for individual rehabilitation. We want to better support the probation service in using evidence-based decision-making.
We can be contacted at the following email address: evidence_partnerships@justice.gov.uk.
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
There has been little research examining how those who are punished by the criminal justice system experience and give meaning to their sentences. Research that does exist has largely focused on one single sentence. Howe...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Glasgow
The project partially answers the question as it explores how offenders interpret the accumulation of sentences in their lives and how the meaning of a sentence changes depending on its timing and the offender's life circumstances.
Not only does Scotland imprison more people than most European countries, but our prison numbers are also rising despite a fall in crime levels. The Scottish Government is attempting to reduce imprisonment through increa...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Strathclyde
The project partially answers the question as it aims to understand the dynamics of compliance and breach in criminal justice social work, which can impact sentencers' confidence in using non-custodial sentences.
Due to a hardening of penal sensibilities and more stringent sentencing practices (mainly as a result of the 2003 Criminal Justice Act), a growing number of prisoners are serving extremely long sentences from an early ag...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Cambridge
The project partially answers the question as it focuses on the experience, dynamics, and effects of long-term confinement, which can impact sentencers' confidence in using non-custodial sentences.