How can strength-based approaches nurture positive attitudes to rehabilitation that guard against reoffending? What approaches enable the development of pro-social identity?

Background

We want to address the causes of reoffending using personalised evidence, live data, and digital services to better target and sequence interventions. To do this we need to build the evidence base that can inform the development of more holistic measures than ‘proven reoffending’, factoring in a broader range of outcomes.

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


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    Funded by: FLF

    Lead research organisation: University of Greenwich

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on reducing recidivism by fostering positive social identities and using sports identities as a catalyst for reform, which aligns with the question's focus on strength-based approaches and pro-social identity development.

  • Improving outcomes for stigmatised groups via social cohesion

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    Funded by: FLF

    Lead research organisation: University of Greenwich

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on improving outcomes for stigmatised groups, including prison leavers, by leveraging social connections and identities to reduce reoffending rates.

  • Distant Voices: Coming Home

    Distant Voices responds to pressing public policy and political challenges created by huge rises in the numbers of people subject to penal sanctions and by high levels of reoffending. Turning conventional understandings ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Glasgow

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    The project aims to improve academic and public understandings of social re/integration after punishment, which is relevant to the question of how strength-based approaches can nurture positive attitudes to rehabilitation and enable the development of pro-social identity.

  • CO-PRODUCING DESISTANCE FROM CRIME: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL COOPERATIVE STRUCTURES OF EMPLOYMENT

    Across the UK, and indeed further afield, increasing political, professional and public concern has been expressed about the economic, social and human costs of the increasing use of imprisonment and of reoffending follo...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Strathclyde

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project examines the potential of social cooperatives in supporting the resettlement of prisoners and enabling longer-term processes of desistance, which partially addresses the question of how strength-based approaches can nurture positive attitudes to rehabilitation and enable the development of pro-social identity.

  • A multi-cultural comparative study into the influence national level variations have on desistance from crime

    NERC: Jessica Cleary: ES/P000681/1 Using qualitative interviews with participants involved in criminal justice interventions, collected in Québec (Canada) and Scotland prior to the exchange, this project will expl...

    Funded by: UKRI

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  • Plymouth Community Justice Court: A Case Study of Problem Solving Interventions, Reducing Re-offending and Public Confidence

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    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Plymouth University

  • 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

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  • The role of non profit organisations in prisoner reentry: establishing a US-European research network

    Third sector organisations (hereafter TSOs) currently provide a range of services to offenders and criminal justice organisations, including advice and advocacy, mentoring schemes, education and training, as well as perf...

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  • Evaluating the long-term impact of Release on Temporary License (ROTL)

    Release on temporary licence (ROTL) provides eligible people currently in prison the opportunity to prepare for resettlement in the community through day or overnight release. The intended impact of ROTL is to reduce reo...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Queen Mary University of London

  • 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