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: [email protected].
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Related UKRI funded projects
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Righting recidivism: unlocking the cognitive underpinnings of successful interventions to reduce reoffending
Recidivism is one of the greatest socio-economic burdens the UK currently faces. At an estimated total cost of £18.1 billion a year, prison re-entry places a substantial burden on the national economy. This exacerb...
Funded by: UKRI 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.
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Improving outcomes for stigmatised groups via social cohesion
Recidivism is one of the greatest socio-economic burdens the UK currently faces. At an estimated total cost of £18.1 billion a year, prison re-entry places a substantial burden on the national economy. This exacerb...
Funded by: UKRI 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.
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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
Why might this be relevant?
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.