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 is a long tradition of research in criminology which examines why convicted offenders desist from further offending. However, to date research into desistance from crime has focused almost exclusively on the genera...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Queen's University Belfast
The project focuses specifically on understanding desistance from sexual offending, which aligns with the question's objective of understanding the dynamic risk factors for sexual reoffending and how they evolve over time.
In times of crisis, we know that offenders continue to commit crimes, and do so in a manner afforded by the new context (Thornton & Voigt, 2012). Sexual offenders are versatile (Lovell et al., 2019), and change their...
Funded by: COVID
Lead research organisation: University of Birmingham
While the project investigates the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak on stranger sex offender behavior and victim vulnerability, it does not directly address the question's objective of understanding the dynamic risk factors for sexual reoffending and how they evolve over time.
Sexual offending is a major problem with over 50,000 sexual crimes recorded in England and Wales in 2010-2011. Two thirds of these offences were committed against women while the other third involve offences against chil...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Birmingham
The project focuses on differentiating aspects of the neuropsychological profile of paedophilic sex offenders, which is not directly relevant to the question's objective of understanding the dynamic risk factors for sexual reoffending and how they evolve over time.