Experiences of the Crown Court- ESRC study
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This is a 20-month Economic and Social Research Council funded
study of 'The public's experiences of court: how victims,
defendants and witnesses perceive and make sense of the criminal
justice process'. The empirical work for this project is being
carried out in two Crown Courts, and entails observations,
interviews with court users, and interviews with court-based
professionals.
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Probation quality and engagement with offenders
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This study forms part of the National Offender Management Service
(NOMS) Offender Engagement Programme (OEP). The OEP seeks to
investigate the hypothesis that one-to-one work with those under
probation supervision can be a powerful vehicle for facilitating
behavioural change. By establishing what supports effective
engagement and better understanding how to overcome the barriers
which hinder these processes, the aim of the OEP is to better
enable practitioners to reduce reoffending and change probationers'
lives through their one-to-one engagement with them.
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Young people, interventions and the secure estate
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This is a 5 year study funded by the YJB that ICPR is completing in
partnership with IPSOS Mori. The study aims to identify the range
of interventions young offenders receive within the Secure Estate
and describe the extent to which interventions are matched to the
identified needs of young people in custody, with a view to
describing the association between interventions received,
reconviction and other positive outcomes. ICPR and IPSOS Mori began
conducting fieldwork in secure establishments in early 2010,
collecting the young people's personal experiences of custody in
terms of restraints, education and general interventions received.
The second part of the study will involve qualitative interviews
with staff at the secure establishments and is due to begin
shortly.
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Drug markets in the European Union
| Funded by the European Commission and in partnership with the Trimbos Institute and RAND Europe, ICPR is involved in an ambitious study which seeks to better understand: (i) the specific characteristics, mechanisms and factors that govern key EU illicit drug markets (e.g. for cannabis, heroin, cocaine); (ii) the size and share of the market(s); (iii) potential policy impacts; and (iv) possible future trends in the market(s) and appropriate policy responses. |
One-stop-shops for women offenders
| This is an evaluation of six ‘one-stop-shop’ services or integrated women offender services to divert women away from crime funded by the Nuffield Foundation. The aim of the study is to document the range of one-stop-shops that have been established following recommendations in the Corston Report and examine six of these in detail. Assessment will be made of the impact of services for their clients and their success at enabling women to stop offending and to receive help in the community rather than serving custodial sentences. |
Impact of drug law enforcement operations
| ICPR is currently working with two English police forces examining how they define, measure and assess the impact of both discrete and sustained drug law enforcement efforts against street and ‘middle-level’ drug dealers. |
Integrated drug treatment system - prison drug markets assessment
| Commissioned by the Department of Health, ICPR is working in collaboration with the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) on an independent evaluation of the Integrated Drug Treatment System (IDTS). The aim of the study is to review how IDTS is being implemented and delivered in prisons across the UK.
As part of the larger study ICPR will be conducting research on prison management and inmate drug buying and selling behaviour in five selected prisons. In order to do this, we will be reviewing a range of routinely collected prison data and conducting individual interviews with prisoners, discipline and specialist security staff.
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FIDUCIA: New European Crimes and Trust-based Policy
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This project, funded under the European Commission's Framework
Programme 7, will develop policy responses to emerging forms of
crime across Europe. The project's starting point is that public
trust in justice is critically important for social regulation, in
that it leads to public acceptance of the legitimacy of
institutions of justice and thus compliance with the law. This
project will assess to what extent this insight has relevance for
the policing of crimes such as trafficking of people, trafficking
of goods and cybercrime, and for the policing of marginalised
minority groups. The project is coordinated by the University of
Parma, and has 13 partners across Europe.
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Evaluating training in restorative justice
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This project is evaluating the impact of training in restorative
justice delivered to probation and prison staff. The training is
being delivered by Restorative Solutions. The programme (and the
evaluation) has been funded by NOMS and the Monument Trust.
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Community Justice and the 'Big Society'
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This study, funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation,
is exploring the scope for, and potential benefits of, community
involvement in the delivery of criminal justice in England and
Wales. It will focus, in particular, on deprived neighbourhoods
where the need for effective community engagement is greatest. What
we hope to achieve is to find some practical ways of transforming
the rhetoric of community engagement into reality in poor
communities.
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