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ABC | DEF | GHI | JKL | MNO | PQR | STU | VWX | YZ
ABC
- Access to Justice: evidence of the experiences of adults with mental health problems
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A report summarising international research evidence on the experiences of adults with mental health problems in the justice system.
- Access to Justice: evidence of the experiences of minority groups based on ethnicity, identity and sexuality
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Research report reviewing evidence on the experiences of minority groups in the justice system.
- Action research into the London resettlement pilot
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Report on action research into the London resettlement pilot conducted between May 2006 and August 2006 in Wormwood Scrubs prison and eight North West London boroughs.
- Applying neural networks to the prediction of recidivism
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A study comparing the usefulness of data mining techniques in predicting the risk of violent reoffending.
- Are juries fair?
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A research report examining whether all-white juries discriminate against black and minority ethnic defendants.
- Care profiling study
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A study providing baseline data on care proceedings brought under the Children Act 1989, which could be used to evaluate reforms to the care proceedings system.
- Community Payback and local criminal justice engagement initiatives
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Research looking at public responses to local Community Payback projects and criminal justice engagement initiatives.
- Compendium of research and analysis on the Offender Assessment System
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This compendium presents research and analysis conducted over a three-year period from 2006 to 2009.
- Conditional cautions: an examination of the early implementation of the scheme
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A report evaluating the implementation of conditional cautions in 13 Basic Command Units across six police force areas.
- Confidence in the criminal justice system: what lies beneath?
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This report identifies factors that people consider when answering the British Crime Survey question used to measure public confidence in the Criminal Justice System.
- County court anti-social behaviour co-ordinators - a pilot scheme
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A report assessing the role of county court anti-social behaviour co-ordinators under a scheme piloted for a year.
- Court experiences of adults with mental health conditions or learning disabilities
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A series of reports presenting the background, findings and recommendations of a research project examining court experiences of adults with mental health conditions or learning disabilities.
DEF
- Dedicated drug court pilots: a process report
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An independent evaluation of pilot dedicated drug courts, which were announced in December 2005 as part of the government's agenda to reduce drug-related crime.
- Dedicated drug court: impact evaluation
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A study on the feasibility of evaluating the impact of dedicated drug courts, and the difference they make to outcomes.
- Dedicated drug court: process evaluation
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A process evaluation study of dedicated drug courts, their implementation and factors underpinning the potential for DDCs to reduce drug use and associated offending.
- Diversity and fairness in the jury system
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This report examines whether the juror summoning process discriminates against black and minority ethnic (BME) groups.
- Domestic abuse programmes - a process study
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An implementation study of the delivery of domestic abuse programmes in probation areas and Her Majesty’s Prison Service.
- Domestic Violence and the Supplemental Information Form C1A
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Findings of an evaluation of the use and effect of the introduction of the form into the Family Court.
- Early evaluation of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004
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A study providing an early evaluation of some of the measures of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004.
- Early evaluation of the Integrated Domestic Violence Court, Croydon
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A study to provide a snapshot of the progress of the Croydon Integrated Domestic Violence Court pilot after 12 months. It explores emerging issues and offers recommendations for policy and good practice.
- Early neutral evaluation pilot in the Social Security and Child Support Tribunal
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Research conducted to evaluate the early neutral evaluation pilot in the Social Security and Child Support Tribunal.
- Early process evaluation of the Public Law Outline in family courts
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A report presenting an early stage process evaluation of the Public Law Outline in family courts
- Effective bail scheme: monitoring report
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A study analysing the data collected during the effective bail scheme pilot in Yorkshire and Humberside.
- Enhanced Thinking Skills programme: Outcomes and implementation of a randomised controlled trial
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Two reports on a randomised controlled trial of the Enhanced Thinking Skills programme.
- Evaluating judicial mediation in employment tribunals
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Research evaluating the judicial mediation service piloted in three regions of England in employment tribunals.
- Evaluation of the development of support services for victims of road traffic incidents
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This summary describes the main findings from research examining three Home Office-funded pilot schemes delivering support services to victims of road traffic incidents.
- Evaluation of the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre
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This report presents the findings of a survey of attitudes and perceptions in the area of North Liverpool served by the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre.
- Evaluation of the victims' advocate scheme pilots
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A research report evaluating the victims' advocate scheme, which explored ways to improve the support available to families in murder and manslaughter cases.
- Evaluation of young witness support: examining the impact on witnesses and the criminal justice system
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This research summarises an evaluation of six specialist young witness schemes.
- Evidence of harm to adults relating to exposure to extreme pornographic material
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This document reports on a rapid evidence assessment (REA) of the evidence of harm relating to exposure to extreme pornographic material (EPM).
- Evidence-based practice? The National Probation Service’s work with alcohol misusing offenders
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A study by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research at King's College London, examining the National Probation Service's work with alcohol misusing offenders.
- Explaining attitudes towards the justice system in the UK and Europe
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The aim of this study was to analyse what determines citizens' confidence in the justice system, by framing levels of confidence in the wider European context.
- Exploratory randomised control trial of schema modal therapy
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An evaluation of the treatment effects of schema modal therapy in Ashworth high secure hospital.
- Factors linked to reoffending
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A one-year follow-up of prisoners who took part in the Resettlement Surveys 2001, 2003 and 2004.
- Fine payment work process evaluation
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Research presenting the findings from the process evaluation of the Fine Payment Work pilots.
- Focus on resettlement: a randomised control trial
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A study assessing the feasibility of using a Randomised Control Trial to evaluate the Focus On Resettlement change programme and to consider alternative evaluation methods.
- Impact evaluation on the enhanced thinking skills programme
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An evaluation of how the HM Prison Service Enhanced Thinking Skills (ETS) programme impacted on the one-year reconviction outcomes of prisoners who participated in the course between 2006 and 2008.
GHI
- Go-Between: evaluation of intermediary pathfinder projects
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This research summarises an evaluation of the implementation of the intermediary special measure in six pathfinder areas.
- Human Rights Insight Project
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The findings from the Human Rights Insight Project, which set out to establish whether human rights could be used empirically as a tool to improve the public's experience of public services.
- Implementing services for women offenders and those 'at risk' of offending - Action research with Together Women
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A research report on the early implementation of the Together Women programme, which addresses the needs of women offenders and those described as 'at risk' of offending.
- Improving employment interventions
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A study evaluating the impact of the second phase of the Pathfinder project, which aimed at improving the effectiveness of getting offenders into work as a means of reducing reoffending.
- Inform, persuade and remind - An evaluation of a project to improve public confidence in the criminal justice system
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A research report summarising the results of an experiment designed to test the impact of providing information upon public confidence in the criminal justice system.
- Initial evaluation of reconviction rates in community justice initiatives
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A research report assessing the initial impact of Community Justice Initiatives in North Liverpool and Salford on reoffending rates.
- Intensive help for vulnerable people: applying case management models in the justice system
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A review of the use of case management models to support vulnerable people in the justice system.
- International comparison of publicly funded legal services and justice systems
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Research exploring evidence to account for differences in public spending on providing access to justice in selected countries.
- Interventions aimed at reducing reoffending in female offenders
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A rapid evidence assessment of evidence on the efficacy of interventions designed to reduce reoffending among female offenders.
- Investigating disclosures made by sexual offenders
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Preliminary findings from the first phase of research into using mandatory polygraph testing in the management of sexual offenders in the community.
- Is the 2007 court fee remission system working?
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Research on the 2007 court fee remission system and examination of court users’ views and experiences.
JKL
- Just satisfaction? What drives public and participant satisfaction with courts and tribunals
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A report examining UK and international evidence on what factors may be associated with public and participant satisfaction with the justice system.
- Legal services reform: baseline survey
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A survey of consumers' experiences of using legal services for personal matters in England and Wales before the full implementation of the Legal Services Act 2007.
- Living together campaign - an investigation of its impact on legally aware cohabitants
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This is a report of a short study done in January and September 2006, to assess the attitudes and behaviour of a group of 'legally aware' cohabitants, former cohabitants and intending cohabitants who had accessed the Living Together Campaign's website.
- Local Criminal Justice Board effectiveness
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A national survey of effective performance management and the performance of Local Criminal Justice Boards.
- Longer-term outcomes in-court conciliation
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This report explores the longer-term outcomes of in-court conciliation (or alternative dispute resolution) in child contact cases.
MNO
- Mental Health Courts: Feasibility study and process evaluation
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The feasibility study assessed the possibility of evaluating the impact of the Mental Health Court pilot. The process evaluation assessed pilot implementation on best practice and areas for improvement.
- Monetary claims in county courts
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An analysis of civil monetary claims in county courts following the introduction of Civil Procedure Rules.
- North Liverpool Community Justice Centre - Surveys of local residents
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A report presenting the findings of a survey of attitudes and perceptions in the area of North Liverpool served by the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre.
- Scoping project on no win no fee agreements in England and Wales
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A report defining work that can be carried out in relation to no win no fee agreements in employment tribunal, personal injury and media litigation cases.
PQR
- Assessment of the implementation of postal requisitioning in six pilot areas
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A report about postal requisitioning which offers an alternative to traditional charging/summons methods, and introduces a new way for the police to get a person to court, notifying them of a court date by post.
- Impact of bad character provisions on the courts
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A report on bad character applications at six court centres during 2006. The new provision provided a systematic way for bad character evidence to be admitted at criminal trials.
- Piloting penalty notices for disorder on 10- to 15-year-olds
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An overview of the use of the Penalty Notice for Disorder on 10- to 15 year-olds in the six pilot forces between July 2005 and June 2006.
- Predicting and understanding risk of re-offending: the Prisoner Cohort Study
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Research summary on predicting and understanding the risk of re-offending of prisoners with dangerous and severe personality disorder.
- Pro bono work provided by legal executives
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A research report on the extent and value of pro bono work (work done without compensation for the public good) undertaken by legal executives.
- Problems and needs of newly sentenced prisoners - results from a national survey
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This report presents information derived from interviews conducted shortly after reception into prison with a representative sample of nearly 1,500 newly sentenced adult prisoners.
- Process Evaluation of the Salford Community Justice Initiative
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Research examining various aspects of the Initiative, including the set-up phase, community engagement activity, problem solving processes and court processes.
- Providing anonymity to those accused of rape: an assessment of evidence
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A report considering evidence relevant to the issue of whether or not to provide anonymity to those accused of rape.
- Public confidence in the Criminal Justice System
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Research presenting analysis of public confidence in the Criminal Justice system during 2002/03 to 2007/08.
- Public opinion and the jury: an international literature review
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A report bringing together findings from a number of surveys on public attitudes to juries, focusing on England and Wales but also drawing on international research.
- Public Protection, Proportionality and the Search for Balance
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This report examines how courts in the UK and Europe respond when human rights and security appear to conflict.
- Rapid Evidence Assessment of the evidence on the effectiveness of interventions with persistent/prolific offenders in reducing re-offending
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A paper reporting on the results from a Rapid Evidence Assessment
- Relationship between rights and responsibilities
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A study examining the idea of constitutional responsibilities within the context of the current debate on a new British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.
- Research into enforcement of employment tribunal awards in England and Wales
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Research on the enforcement of awards made by employment tribunals.
- Restorative justice and reoffending
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An evaluation of the impact of restorative justice in reducing reoffending.
- Restorative Justice: the views of victims and offenders - the third report from the evaluation of three schemes
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This is the third report from the study of three Restorative Justice (RJ) schemes.
STU
- Satellite Tracking of Offenders: A Study of the Pilots in England and Wales
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This summary evaluates the satellite tracking pilots that took place between September 2004 and June 2006 in three areas in England and Wales.
- Sentencing and its outcomes: pilot study
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A report on testing the viability of conducting a study of sentencing in England and Wales using administrative data.
- Sexual offenders risk assessment tool pilot
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Research on findings from the Stable and Acute risk assessment pilot used with sexual offenders in England and Wales.
- Surveying prisoner crime reduction (longitudinal study)
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Analysis relating prisoners’ backgrounds and reconviction has been published via the Compendium of Reoffending Statistics and Analysis
- Towards a policy evaluation service: Developing infrastructure to support the use of experimental and quasi-experimental methods.
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This report looks at the arguments concerning the development of infrastructure to support policy outcome evaluation, and proposes the creation of a new policy evaluation service.
- Training and regulating providers of publicly funded legal advice
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A research report on the impact of various systems of training and regulation on perceptions of the quality of civil legal advice given to clients.
- Twelve months later: does advice help? The impact of debt advice - advice agency clients study
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This report details the findings of a longitudinal study of (not for profit) advice agency debt advice clients.
- Twisting arms: court referred and court linked mediation under judicial pressure
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This report evaluates a) a quasi-compulsory mediation programme and b) a voluntary mediation scheme. The results describe the uptake of mediation, user experiences, and the potential of mediation to offer savings to the justice system.
- Unpaid reparative work pilot: lessons learnt
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Research identifying the lessons learnt from the implementation of the unpaid reparative work conditional caution pilot.
VWX
- Violence interventions systematic review
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A systematic review of the national and international evidence on the effectiveness of interventions with violent offenders.
- Virtual courts pilot: outcome evaluation report
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The report presents findings from the virtual court pilot evaluation, looking at the cost effectiveness, speed and justice outcomes of the pilot sites compared to the traditional courts.
- What's cost got to do with it? The impact of changing court fees on users
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This report examines the impact of changing court fees on users of civil and family courts in England and Wales.
- Witness and Victim Experience Survey: early findings
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A report exploring victims' and witnesses' experiences of the criminal justice system and of the progress made at a local and national level against key initiatives.
- Women specific condition pilot: an evaluation
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Research evaluating the implementation and effectiveness of the women specific condition, as part of the existing conditional caution scheme.
