Ministry of Justice

Questions from the Ministry of Justice:

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Staff and workforce How can we better understand the future demand and needs of our workforce – including learning and development needs – to ensure effective workload management, particularly in relation to serious and high-risk cases? Ministry of Justice, 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Risk management What are the drivers of extremism and what works to reduce radicalisation? How effective are de-radicalisation interventions? What factors have a strong influence on the de-radicalisation of individuals? Ministry of Justice, 2020
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Risk management What are the enablers and barriers to the effective operation of approved premises? For which individuals are approved premises most effective, and why? Ministry of Justice, 2020
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Risk management What are the enablers and barriers to effective Integrated Offender Management (IOM) strategies? How can stakeholders be supported in the delivery of IOM? Ministry of Justice, 2020
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Risk management How can we better understand the dynamic risk factors for sexual reoffending and how they evolve over time? Particularly those identified via the Active Risk Management System (ARMS). Ministry of Justice, 2020
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Risk management How can agencies work together most effectively to protect the public from offending (and reoffending) of a highly serious or dangerous nature? Under what circumstances do multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA) reduce public protection risks? Ministry of Justice, 2020
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Risk management What works to effectively manage risk and ensure public protection for individuals convicted of serious violent and sexual offences? Ministry of Justice, 2020
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Sentencing options, including alternatives to custody What contributes to effective electronic tagging and monitoring, including GPS and radio frequency trackers, and sobriety tags, in protecting the public from harm? Are there specific groups of individuals for whom electronic tagging and monitoring is more effective? Ministry of Justice, 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sentencing options, including alternatives to custody What factors impact sentencers’ confidence in using non-custodial sentences? Ministry of Justice, 2020
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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
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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
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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
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