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Dataset-specific publications, such as Data Explained documents and user guides, can be found on the ADR UK Data Catalogue or on Flagship datasets.

24 April 2025

Data Insight: Ethnicity, sex, and community orders

This Data Insight focuses on the relationships between ethnicity, sex, and community orders. It explores whether there are differences in the types of requirements imposed on individuals based on their sex and ethnic background, after considering factors such as age and offence category. Additionally, it investigates whether these differences impact the successful completion of community orders.

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13 February 2025

Care experienced children and young people: Research insights from administrative data

This report summarises some key insights on children’s experiences with social care, which have been generated through research using administrative data. It serves as a source of evidence for policymakers and practitioners working to support children. It also provides a rich example of the power of administrative data to enable critical research evidence that can improve lives.

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10 February 2025

Data Insight: Were people with health vulnerabilities more likely to be fined by the police during the Covid-19 pandemic?

This Data Insight explores whether people who had accessed health services for conditions relating to mental ill health, drug use and alcohol misuse were more likely to receive fixed penalty notices (FPNs) during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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6 December 2024

Data Insight: Children involved with child welfare services and the likelihood of a custodial sentence

This Data Insight by Dr Anna Leyland summarises findings from working with the Ministry of Justice & Department for Education linked dataset - England. Using data from the National Pupil Database and the Police National Computer, the research analyses the likelihood of receiving a custodial sentence by 2020 for children who were referred to or received an intervention from child welfare services from ages 5-18.

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3 December 2024

Data Insight: What came first: Is there a causal role of child welfare service interventions on likelihood of having criminal cautions or convictions?

This Data Insight summarises findings from working with the Ministry of Justice & Department for Education linked dataset - England. Using de-identified data from the National Pupil Database and the Police National Computer, the research looks at the order in which children were in contact with the child welfare service and criminal justice system. This report then estimates the likelihood of having any criminal caution or conviction, including only those cases where children were involved with the child welfare service one year or more before they had any criminal caution or conviction and up until 2020.

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4 September 2024

Data Insight: Enforced alcohol abstinence: does it reduce reoffending?

This Data Insight draws on Ministry of Justice Data First magistrates’ courts and probation datasets to examine how alcohol-treatment and monitoring requirements are used and whether they reduce reoffending.

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16 August 2024

Data Insight: Childhood educational predictors of re-offending trajectories

This Data Insight examines the feasibility of using childhood educational information to develop predictive models of re-offending trajectories. A re-offending trajectory is the pattern by which a person commits crimes throughout their lifetime. This research aimed to explore whether we could use de-identified administrative educational and social care data to potentially identify the characteristics of individuals who may go on to become persistent offenders. The research used the Ministry of Justice and Department for Education linked dataset – England.

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10 May 2024

Data Insight: Deciding to have a Crown Court jury trial for a theft offence: Consequences, and relationships with ethnicity

This Data Insight investigates the consequences of a defendant electing to have a Crown Court trial, as compared to having their case heard in the magistrates’ courts, after pleading not guilty to an either-way theft offence. Either-way offences are offences that can be tried in the magistrates’ courts or in the Crown Court. The Data Insight also examines this decision in relation to ethnicity.

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24 April 2024

Data Insight: Changes in school performance and involvement in the criminal justice system

This Data Insight investigates changes in school performance and subsequent involvement in the criminal justice system during young adulthood. The research draws on England-wide de-identified data from the National Pupil Database...

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20 December 2023

Data Insight: Risk factors associated with primary care-reported domestic violence for women involved in Family Law care proceedings

This Data Insight explores risk factors for domestic violence and abuse experienced by mothers involved in public law family court care proceedings in Wales.

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