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Improve transport for the user
What are the implications (for both safety and insurance) of people continuing to drive with high numbers of penalty points or immediately after serious offences (as only the courts can disqualify someone from driving)?
Department for Transport, 2023
transport
safety
insurance
penalty points
serious offences
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Achieve the best outcomes in the pursuit of justice and in support of victims
Improving our understanding of criminal justice approaches which are most effective in reducing re-offending
Metropolitan Police, 2019
criminal justice
law
crime prevention
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Focus on what matters most to Londoners
Effectively managing violent offenders who pose a risk to the public
Metropolitan Police, 2019
crime
violence
public safety
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Custody and custodial arrangements
How can short periods in custody be made more effective at reducing reoffending? What are the effects of longer custodial sentences on crime?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
crime
custody
reoffending
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Custody and custodial arrangements
How do licence period, conditions, and durations affect the potential for recalls, and what are the downstream impacts on individual outcomes and risks to public protection?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
public protection
evidence-based decision-making
probation service
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Custody and custodial arrangements
How do changes in tariffs, including minimum and maximum sentence lengths or the way life tariffs are calculated, affect sentencing behaviour?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
law
sentencing
public protection
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Custody and custodial arrangements
What is the impact of home detention curfew, in advance of custodial sentence completion, on individual outcomes and risk to public protection? How can home detention curfew be improved?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
public protection
criminal justice
rehabilitation
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Sentencing options, including alternatives to custody
How can anti-social, violent, and criminal behaviour linked to alcohol and drug use be addressed beyond traditional criminal sentencing?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
criminal justice
alcohol and drug use
rehabilitation
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Sentencing options, including alternatives to custody
What makes an effective pre-sentence report (PSR)? How do PSR’s – including language usage – affect sentence length, type, and consistency? What factors influence the use of PSR’s – including judicial views and confidence – and why has this changed over time?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
law
sentencing
judicial views
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Sentencing options, including alternatives to custody
What explains public confidence in criminal sentences? How can public confidence be improved?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
criminal justice
public protection
rehabilitation
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Sentencing options, including alternatives to custody
How has the use of non-custodial sentencing changed over time?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
law
sentencing
criminal justice
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Sentencing options, including alternatives to custody
What factors impact sentencers’ confidence in using non-custodial sentences?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
justice
sentencing
public protection
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Sentencing options, including alternatives to custody
What are the enablers and barriers to effective sentences, including community-based, alternative or short custodial sentences? Are certain types or requirements of sentences, or recommended treatment programmes, more effective for different individuals and groups?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
justice
sentencing
rehabilitation
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Sentencing options, including alternatives to custody
What factors affect the likelihood of different groups receiving different sentences, including custodial, community or other court disposal sentences? How do sentencing recommendations vary by the availability of different options?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
law
sentencing
justice system
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Prison regime and operation
How effective are different prison types, categories and functions, such as reception, training and resettlement, in meeting their core objectives?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
prison
rehabilitation
violence
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The judiciary
What are the career pathways and recruitment journeys into the judiciary? How do protected characteristics and social mobility affect recruitment?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
justice system
judiciary
recruitment
protected characteristics
social mobility
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Cases and outcomes
How can we define and measure procedural justice and (subjective) fairness? How does this vary by jurisdiction, and protected characteristics?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
justice
procedural justice
fairness
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Cases and outcomes
How can we measure the quality of case outcomes across different jurisdictions, types of cases, and for the individuals and organisations involved? Including whether the court or tribunal was the ‘right’ method of resolution.
Ministry of Justice, 2020
justice system
court procedures
tribunals
case outcomes
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Cases and outcomes
How does case progression, case timeliness, cost-to-access (where appropriate), and eventual outcome vary by jurisdiction and case type? What works, at which stage, and for whom, to improve the efficiency of case progression?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
justice system
case progression
case timeliness
cost-to-access
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Cases and outcomes
What are the reasons for case attrition and what works to avoid it, for different case types? What are the impacts of case attrition on victims, particularly for serious violence and sexual abuse cases?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
justice system
case attrition
victims
serious violence
sexual abuse
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