What factors impact sentencers’ confidence in using non-custodial sentences?

Background

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.

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


  • Lives Sentenced: The Punishment Careers of Persistent Offenders

    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

    Why might this be relevant?

    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.

  • Make Time Count Today - Reducing criminal reoffending on probation through data analytics, predictive behaviour recognition and optimised interventions

    **Problem Addressed** Crime costs UK economy over £58bn pa, with 1.2mn people convicted annually. Of these, 87% have previous convictions, 60% of released prisoners and 30% on probation reoffend within 12 months. ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: MAKE TIME COUNT TODAY LTD

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project addresses the factors impacting sentencers' confidence in using non-custodial sentences through data analytics and predictive behavior recognition, with expertise from the Cambridge Centre for Evidenced-Based Policing.

  • Regulating Justice: The Dynamics of Compliance and Breach in Criminal Justice Social Work in Scotland

    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

    Why might this be relevant?

    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.

  • Long-term imprisonment from young adulthood: a longitudinal follow-up study

    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

    Why might this be relevant?

    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.