How effective are different sentence types at improving community safety, reducing reoffending, promoting rehabilitation, and limiting the churn of people through the prison system?
Background
Delivering the Scottish Government’s Vision for Justice requires a whole system approach as recognised in its four underpinning core principles: ‘Founded in equality and human rights’,’ Evidence-based’, ‘Embed person-centred and trauma-informed practices’ and, ‘Collaboration and Partnership’. As such, Justice Analytical Services have identified the theme of ‘Whole Justice System Analysis’ as a research priority. This theme includes holistic research into justice equalities, justice economics and justice as a system – robust research on all of these topics will inform work towards the Vision for Justice aims.
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Regulating Justice: The Dynamics of Compliance and Breach in Criminal Justice Social Work in Scotland
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Why might this be relevant?
Partially answers the question by focusing on compliance and breach in criminal justice social work in Scotland.
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Lives Sentenced: The Punishment Careers of Persistent Offenders
There has been little research examining how those who are punished by the criminal justice system experience and give meaning to their sentences. Research that does exist has largely focused on one single sentence. Howe...
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Why might this be relevant?
Partially answers the question by exploring the punishment careers of persistent offenders in Scotland.
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Imagining Possible Futures: Activating Lived Experience in Criminal Justice
This Fellowship is urgent given the growing numbers of people cycling through systems of punishment. 10.74 million people are now imprisoned globally (Walmsley 2018). Reoffending rates are high in most Western countries ...
Funded by: UKRI FLF
Why might this be relevant?
The project addresses the effectiveness of different sentence types in criminal justice and rehabilitation, aligning with the research priority of 'Whole Justice System Analysis'.