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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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Health and wellbeing
How many people in prison need access to mental health services who cannot or do not access them? When is the optimal time to intervene or offer support? What are the longer-term effects of early identification and intervention?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
mental health
prison
intervention
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Health and wellbeing
What are the impacts – both within prison and post-release – of the physical and mental health services, and support services delivered in prisons?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
health
mental health
prison
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Health and wellbeing
What factors contribute to an effective within-prison health service and how can we respond to changing demographics and needs? What works to support a ‘whole-prison’ approach to physical and mental health?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
health
prison
mental health
demographics
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Health and wellbeing
What works to reduce levels of self-harm and self-inflicted death in prisons, for different individuals and groups? How can mentoring, peer support and staff relationships help in reducing self-harm?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
prison
mental health
self-harm
mentoring
peer support
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Staff and capability
How does staff diversity – in terms of protected characteristics – impact relationships with individuals in prisons, and their behaviour?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
prison
diversity
staff
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Technology
How and to what extent can digital technology in prisons assist staff and our understanding of the needs of our workforce?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
digital technology
prisons
workforce
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Technology
To what extent is technology supporting and enabling individuals to rehabilitate? For example, maintaining relationships via in-cell telephony.
Ministry of Justice, 2020
prison
rehabilitation
technology
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Technology
How effective are different types of technology across the estate in ensuring prisons are safe, secure, fair, inclusive and productive?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
prison
safety
security
technology
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Services and interventions
How can we better isolate the impact of multiple interventions within an individual's time in prison? How can we better route individuals onto appropriate programmes in a timely way?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
prison
interventions
rehabilitation
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Services and interventions
What works, for whom, to support effective transition and resettlement from custody into the community? In particular, for children and young people.
Ministry of Justice, 2020
prison
children
young people
transition
resettlement
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Services and interventions
How can we better understand the impact of interventions delivered in prisons and how these are sequenced alongside those in the community?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
prison
interventions
rehabilitation
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Services and interventions
How can services and therapeutic interventions, such as training, peer and family relationship support, and drug and addiction services, improve post-release outcomes? What impact does prison education have on the type of work secured after release?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
prison
rehabilitation
therapeutic interventions
education
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Crime
What are the levels and drivers of serious organised crime and the illicit economy in prisons, including drugs, psychoactive substances, and mobile phones?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
crime
illicit economy
drugs
prison
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Crime
How does intra-prison crime manifest and what are the associated costs?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
crime
prison
safety
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Prison regime and operation
How can we improve the transition from the secure estate for children and young people to the adult estate?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
youth
prison
rehabilitation
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Prison regime and operation
How can we effectively balance prison and secure establishment approaches to safety and security, with the delivery of other services and initiatives in prisons?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
prison
security
safety
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Prison regime and operation
What works across our prisons to increase safety and security and reduce levels of violence?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
safety
security
violence
prison
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Prison regime and operation
What factors contribute to creating and maintaining a rehabilitative culture within prison, and how can this can impact on post-release outcomes for individuals?
Ministry of Justice, 2020
prison
rehabilitation
post-release outcomes
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