What factors will create an effective performance framework for youth offending teams (YOTs)?

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

  • ORA: Understanding and Preventing Youth Crime (UPYC)

    UPYC is a theory-testing comparative survey of schoolchildren's experience of, and attitudes to, crime and substance use, covering France, Germany, the Netherland, the UK and the United States of America. The study forms...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Birkbeck, University of London

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project partially answers the question as it focuses on understanding and preventing youth crime, but it does not specifically address the creation of an effective performance framework for youth offending teams.

  • Manchester Metropolitan University and Positive Steps Oldham

    To embed wide-ranging, effective practise within the GM youth justice service, via enhancing practitioner skill-set and development of services optimised for user-engagement, to improve outcomes for children, young peopl...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project partially answers the question as it aims to enhance practitioner skill-set and develop services optimized for user-engagement, which can contribute to the creation of an effective performance framework for youth offending teams.

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

    The Fellowship aims to contribute to the developing literature on the intersections between youth deviance, parenting and institutional discrimination. Understandings of youth crime as triggered by individual and familia...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Oxford

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project partially answers the question as it examines the fairness of assessment and planning frameworks for youth justice interventions, which is relevant to the creation of an effective performance framework for youth offending teams.

  • Education and social care predictors of offending trajectories: An administrative data linkage study

    Criminal behaviour is a global public health problem associated with a wide range of poor health and social outcomes for victims and perpetrators. Such behaviour typically follows distinct pathways or trajectories, with ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: King's College London

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

    The criminal justice system has over many years introduced a range of initiatives designed to reduce crime and support offenders in their efforts to desist from crime. One recent initiative, originating in the U.S.A and ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Plymouth University

  • The longitudinal association between school performance trajectories and offending behaviour

    Understanding risk and protective factors for offending and re-offending is a key research priority area for the Ministry of Justice. A thorough understanding of the circumstances driving offending behaviour is imperativ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: King's College London

  • ADR UK Data First Evaluation Fellowship

    Until recently, the large amounts of administrative data routinely collected about offenders as they are moved through the Criminal Justice System have been inaccessible to research. Instead, our understanding has largel...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Surrey

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

    Administrative data has the potential to open new and invaluable research opportunities to better understand societal phenomena and support evidence-based policy-making. One research area administrative data can signific...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Institute for Fiscal Studies

  • Implementing Policy Change in Youth Justice

    Ways of dealing with young people in trouble with the law have been the object of (often intense) popular and political debate for at least two centuries. Despite this, there is no consensus amongst policy makers or crim...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Leicester

  • MTCT: Using AI and machine learning to help Police Forces automate Out of Court Order administration, streamline the restorative justice process and help reduce the court backlog.

    With criminal justice cuts, legal aid issues, barristers' strikes and COVID, the UK has seen court backlogs spiral to over 400,000 cases and left victims waiting years for justice. Majority of cases will be for low-level...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

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