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: [email protected].
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Research fields
Related UKRI funded projects
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Understanding Offender Rehabilitation and Supervision
Offender rehabilitation in England and Wales is in crisis. 57% of adults released from short custodial sentences re-offend within just 1 year of their release. Lack of rehabilitation is a key driver of record-high prison...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Strathclyde
Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically focuses on understanding offender rehabilitation and supervision, which directly relates to factors impacting sentencers' confidence in using non-custodial sentences.
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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.
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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.