How can we identify children that are at risk of offending at an early stage? How can we prevent the transmission of intergenerational offending to children and young people in families with a history of offending? How can we minimise the criminogenic impact of a child’s contact with the youth justice system?

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

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    Funded by: ESRC

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    Why might this be relevant?

    The project investigates the association between school performance trajectories and offending behavior, which partially addresses the question. However, it does not specifically mention preventing the transmission of intergenerational offending or minimizing the criminogenic impact of a child's contact with the youth justice system.

  • ORA: Understanding and Preventing Youth Crime (UPYC)

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  • Risks, Needs and Discrimination: Examining the Fairness of Assessment and Planning Frameworks for Youth Justice Interventions

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  • Make Time Count Today - Reducing criminal reoffending on probation through data analytics, predictive behaviour recognition and optimised interventions

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    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: MAKE TIME COUNT TODAY LTD

  • Machine learning methods for studying the trajectories of young offenders in administrative data

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    Permanent and non-permanent exclusions are an integral part of the school system and are used extensively in England. There are significant concerns about the impacts that school exclusions have on excluded children on a...

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    This project specifically focuses on the relationship between school exclusions and offending, which is directly related to identifying children at risk of offending and preventing intergenerational offending.

  • Manchester Metropolitan University and Positive Steps Oldham

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    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

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