New research from ADR Scotland highlights a strong link between persistent child poverty and early youth offending. The study, which used data from the Growing Up in Scotland study, found that children who had offended by age 12 were significantly more likely to have lived in persistent poverty.
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Research from ADR Scotland has examined whether individuals with health vulnerabilities were more likely to receive Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) for breaching Covid-19 restrictions.
In this blog, ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Carly Lightowlers discusses the findings of her research which explored how alcohol-related treatment or monitoring requirements are being used and whether they are reducing reoffending.
The ADR Wales Wellbeing and Social Justice research teams have released a Data Insight on the risk factors for domestic violence and abuse for mothers involved in public law family court care proceedings in Wales.
In this blog, ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Angela Sorsby builds on her recently published Data Insight with some further analysis of differences in prison sentences among ethnic groups.