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This blog is by Nisha da Silva, keynote speaker at the ADR UK Conference 2025 and contributor to the Ministry of Justice’s Data First programme. She explores how linked data reveals key insights into justice system journeys and how these findings are shaping policy, research, and technology.
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A new Data Insight by ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Angela Sorsby highlights significant differences in how community orders are imposed and completed across ethnic and sex groups in England and Wales.
In this blog, ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Markus Gehrsitz describes how the 2015 Offender Rehabilitation Act created the opportunity for a unique natural experiment to explore whether offender supervision and license conditions reduce reoffending.
In this blog, Dr David Buil-Gil, ADR UK Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer at The University of Manchester, explains how he plans to use the Ministry of Justice & Department for Education linked dataset to understand the complexities of the association between school absences, deprivation, and crime involvement.
Data from the offender assessment system which is used in prisons and probation services to record the risks and needs of offenders is now available in the ONS Secure Research Service. Making this vast dataset available for public good research has been made possible by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) Data First programme, funded by ADR UK.
