What is the optimal caseload to deliver supervision that protects the public and rehabilitates people on probation?
Background
The objective for MoJ is to develop a sustainable and effective prison and probation service that protects the public, delivers interventions that break the cycle of reoffending and rebuilds confidence in the criminal justice system. We want to divert adults, children and young people away from crime. Our evidence interests span a range of areas through all stages of the justice system, with a particular focus on improving holistic systems-wide understanding of what works to improve outcomes.
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Understanding Offender Rehabilitation and Supervision
Offender rehabilitation in England and Wales is in crisis. 57% of adults released from short custodial sentences re-offend within just 1 year of their release. Lack of rehabilitation is a key driver of record-high prison...
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Lead research organisation: University of Strathclyde
Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically focuses on understanding offender rehabilitation and supervision, which directly addresses the question about the optimal caseload for supervision to protect the public and rehabilitate individuals on probation.
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Devolving Probation Services: An ethnographic study of the implementation of the Transforming Rehabilitation agenda
The Probation Service in England & Wales is a public body which plays a key role in the criminal justice system. The Service is more than 100 years old and is responsible for supervising offenders subject to communit...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Liverpool John Moores University
Why might this be relevant?
Partially relevant as it focuses on the devolution of probation services, not specifically on optimal caseload for supervision.
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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
Why might this be relevant?
Partially relevant as it addresses reducing reoffending on probation through data analytics and interventions, but not specifically optimal caseload.