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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.

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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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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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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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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Who is prosecuted for serious and organised crimes, and what happens to them?

This animation by ADR UK Research Fellow Tim McSweeney explores the findings from his research project on the nature, extent and outcomes of serious and organised crime cases in England and Wales. This project uses the Ministry of Justice Data First Magistrates' and Crown Court dataset.

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Ethnic inequalities in the criminal justice system

This data comic explores the findings of research led by Dr Kitty Lymperopoulou, which examines the main factors associated with remand and sentencing outcomes and the independent effect of ethnicity on those outcomes. Kitty is an ADR UK Research Fellow using data made available through the Ministry of Justice Data First programme.

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Data Insight: The nature, extent and outcomes of serious and organised crime cases prosecuted in England and Wales

This Data Insight examines serious organised crime cases appearing before the Crown Court in England and Wales between 2013 and 2020.

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