How can we better understand the role of staff engagement, oversight and support – particularly managerial support – for those working with high-risk individuals?

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


  • Rehabilitating Probation: Rebuilding culture, identity and legitimacy in a reformed public service

    The Probation Service plays a key role in the criminal justice system providing public protection, managing risk and supporting the rehabilitation of offenders. Probation services are responsible for supervising around 2...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Liverpool John Moores University

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on understanding the role of staff engagement, oversight, and support in the probation service, which directly relates to the question.

  • Devolving Probation Services: An ethnographic study of the implementation of the Transforming Rehabilitation agenda

    The Probation Service in England & Wales is a public body which plays a key role in the criminal justice system. The Service is more than 100 years old and is responsible for supervising offenders subject to communit...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Liverpool John Moores University

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project examines the devolution of probation services and the process of outsourcing, which partially addresses the question but may not fully cover staff engagement and support.