Research
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2007
A rapid evidence assessment of the impact of mentoring on re-offending
There has been a significant amount of recent interest in the influence of mentors in increasing the life success of individuals who are at risk of re-offending. The mentor can provide both direct assistance (e.g. helping to fill in job applications or locate appropriate housing) and indirect support (e.g. encouragement or acting as a positive role model). This would otherwise be unavailable to most offenders or ‘at-risk' youth because of their family and social background. Mentoring is usually viewed as a method of both reducing re-offending and increasing positive life outcomes such as increasing education, training and employment. This report looks at the effect of mentoring on re-offending.
2006
Capacity Building: Lessons from a pilot programme
Significant funding is being injected into capacity building initiatives but there has been little shared learning about concepts and models, practical implementation or effectiveness. A pilot programme to deliver capacity building to black and minority ethnic organisations across London offers lessons about building the capacity of voluntary organisations to flourish within the new environment by adopting more businesslike approaches and becoming more outward-looking.
Searching the Internet and Child Safety
This document aims to help parents in their choice of search provider by using a checklist of questions to outline what is current good practice in relation to child safety for search providers, and to enable parents to be aware of what they can do to help their children search safer.
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Chatting Online and Child Safety
This document aims to help parents and carers in their understanding of what good practice is in the provision of chat services, to help them help their children find ‘good’ chatrooms and to be aware of how to chat safely.
Penalty Notices for Disorder: Review of practice across police forces
In July 2005, the Government, with support of Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) initiated a Review of Penalty Notices for Disorder (PND) practice across Police Forces. The objectives of this report are to identify best practice in the use of PNDs and to develop consistency, better management and control of the PND scheme. The report also offers recommendations for PND best practice at both the local and national levels.
Research into the effectiveness of youth training and diversion schemes
ECOTEC Research and Consulting Ltd were commissioned by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) in May 2005, to conduct research into the effectiveness of youth training and diversion schemes in England. The research aimed to identify the range, number and types of schemes supported and/or delivered by the Fire and Rescue Service (FRS), and to provide a critical assessment of their effectiveness. The research covered universal schemes open to all (aged 10 to 25), and more targeted provision for disadvantaged young people.
Review of GIS-based information sharing systems
This report from the Home Office looks at the uses to which partnerships can put Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and how such systems can be most effectively developed and deployed.
Restorative Justice in practice: Findings from 2nd phase of the evaluation of 3 schemes
Restorative justice is a process whereby parties (including victims and offenders) with a stake in a specific offence collectively resolve how to deal with the aftermath of the offence and its implications for the future. This summary presents findings from the second phase of the evaluation of three restorative justice schemes funded by the Home Office. The three schemes dealt mainly with adult offenders and worked at different stages of the criminal justice system. This report looks at the development of the schemes through the period of Home Office funding, describing what happened up to the point at which participants finished their contacts with the scheme.
A national evaluation of Community Support Officers
Community Support Officers (CSOs) were introduced as part of the Police Reform Act 2002. There are now over 6,000 CSOs in all 43 Home Office forces and the Government has given a commitment that there will be 24,000 CSOs by 2008. It was expected that CSOs would have a key role to play in the implementation of neighbourhood policing. This report profiles CSOs and assesses their impact on crime and public assurance. Two versions of the report are available: a 136-page research study and a 4-page summary.
The National Reassurance Policing Programme: a six-site evaluation
Reassurance policing is a model of neighbourhood policing which seeks to improve public confidence in policing. It involves local communities in identifying priority crime and disorder issues in their neighbourhood which they then tackle together with the police and other public services and partners. This report describes the key findings from an evaluation of the outcomes of the National Reassurance Policing Programme (NRPP) in England between 2003/04 and 2004/05. In keeping with many recent Home Office Research Studies, a 4-page Findings summary is also available.
2005
The Intensive Control and Change Programme pilots: A study of implementation in the first year
ICCP was an intensive community sentence designed as a direct alternative to custody for 18- to 20-year-old offenders. It provided the following combination of interventions:
25 hours of intervention per week for first three months, reduced to 12 hours per week for second three-month period
higher levels of control than other community sentences via a mandatory curfew with electronic monitoring
higher levels of intervention than other community sentences provided through 5 core programmes:
offender supervision
offending behaviour programmes
community punishment
education, training and employment (ETE) interventions
mentoring
increased partnership work with agencies such as JobCentre Plus, the police, mentoring providers and the Connexions service.
Early findings from the prolific and other priority offenders strategy
Research indicates that a small number of offenders is responsible for a disproportionately large amount of crime. The Prolific and other Priority Offenders (PPO) programme, which was implemented nationally on 6 September 2004, directs resources to this group of offenders. This report informs practitioners and other interested parties of the early findings from the national PPO evaluation
Strengthening Multi-Agency Public Protection Agreements (MAPPAs)
The Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 introduced a requirement for the police and National Probation Service to work together to make arrangements for assessing and managing risks posed by sexual or violent offenders, and other persons who may cause serious harm to the public. These arrangements are known as Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPAs). It is also a requirement of the Act that these arrangements are reviewed and monitored for their effectiveness. This report performs that function and outlines key messages for practitioners.
Penalty notices for disorder statistics 2004
This report summarises the numbers of Penalty Notice Disorder's issued and their related outcomes for 2004. Penalty Notices for Disorder (PNDs) or 'on the spot penalties' were introduced by the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 as part of the government's strategy to tackle low-level, anti-social and nuisance offending.
The effectiveness of criminal justice and treatment programmes in reducing drug-related crime
This report is based on a systematic review of existing literature and examines the effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing criminal behaviour among drug users. The report presents two separate analyses of the results.
Methods in assessing the impact of CCTV
This report describes the data analysis techniques in evaluating 13 CCTV projects for the Home Office in February 2005. It is an accompaniment to Does CCTV work? Assessing the impact of CCTV, which provides extensive information on the effectiveness of the projects.
Police attitudes to CCTV
This report describes the findings of research conducted in 2003 about police views on CCTV. It draws on the views of more than 250 officers in 33 police forces.
Public attitudes towards CCTV
This report looks at people's experiences of crime and attitudes to CCTV in 9 residential areas and 1 town and 2 city centres in a period that runs from January to August 2002.
Control room operation: Findings from control room observations
This report details the findings of a large-scale study of the operation of control rooms. It assesses the practical impact of various factors on the overall effectiveness of CCTV systems.
Assessing the impact of CCTV: The Northern Estate case study
The report assesses the impact of CCTV in reducing burglary, vehicle crime, juvenile disorder and criminal damage, and reassuring residents on Northern Estate, in the north east of England.
Assessing the impact of CCTV: The Hawkeye Case Study
This report assesses the effectiveness of CCTV in reducing vehicle crime in all London Underground car parks. The system consisted of 646 fixed static cameras across 60 car parks.
Assessing the impact of CCTV: The South City Case Study
The report assesses the impact of CCTV in tackling alcohol-related crime, criminal damage, public disorder and fear of crime in the South City area. South City secured funding through the government's crime reduction programme to install 51 cameras extending an existing sixteen-camera system.
Assessing the impact of CCTV
This report outlines the main findings from 14 CCTV systems evaluated as part of a National Evaluation of CCTV, alongside detailed descriptions of each system. Each CCTV system defined its own objectives, although all the evaluated systems had two broad aims: to reduce crime and the fear of crime.
Managing regional delivery of crime initiatives
Using data collected for the main Crime Reduction Programme ( CRP) implementation process review, this report draws out the lessons learned from delivering projects using a centre/region/local approach. It provides some suggestions for strengthening and improving the regional management and highlights the importance of the choice of governance model for regional management.
Investing to deliver: reviewing the implementation of the UK Crime Reduction Programme
This report discusses findings from a review of the processes through which the Crime Reduction Programme (CRP) was implemented. The key lessons detailed should prove invaluable in enhancing the implementation of similar initiatives in the future.
Last update: Tuesday, April 17, 2007