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This blog by the Data First team at the Ministry of Justice explores new analysis on the education and social care backgrounds of children and young people cautioned or sentenced for knife offences, anti-social behaviour (ASB) and acquisitive offences, and violence against women and girls (VAWG) offences. It highlights how linked administrative data can strengthen the evidence base for early intervention and prevention in support of the UK Government’s Safer Streets Mission.
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A suite of new reports by the Ministry of Justice Data First team links education, social care and justice data to provide new insights into patterns of youth offending and the backgrounds of children and young people who offend.
Data First – the Ministry of Justice’s ambitious data linking and research programme – recently received funding from UK Research and Innovation to undertake new work in support of the UK Government’s Safer Streets Mission. In this blog, the Data First team tell us more about this and highlight the opportunity for researchers to use Data First data to explore important research themes for the Mission.
ADR UK Research Fellow, Hope Kent, shares her personal reflections on her attendance at the Council of Europe Conference for Directors of Prison and Probation 2025.
This blog by ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Hannah Dickson explores the challenges of violent reoffending in England and Wales, and how a risk assessment tool developed in Sweden – OxRec - might help improve decision making in the criminal justice system. The blog outlines why better risk assessment matters, how current tools could be improved, and what her study hopes to uncover.
