Data Insights

Our Data Insights offer bite-sized snapshots of the findings of ongoing and completed research using linked administrative data.

At ADR UK, our goal is to enable greater access to public sector administrative data for research to inform policy that works better for all. Sharing the findings of the research we enable is key to achieving this, so that everyone from government decision makers to members of the public can find out what the data tells us, and where change could help to improve lives.

Explore our Data Insights below.

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

6 December 2024

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

3 December 2024

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

4 September 2024

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: Childhood educational predictors of re-offending trajectories

16 August 2024

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

10 May 2024

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

24 April 2024

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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Data Insight: School funding, pupil performance and crime

11 October 2023

This Data Insight 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...

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

12 October 2022

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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Data Insight: Inequalities in sentencing in the Crown Court - evidence from the Ministry of Justice Data First criminal justice datasets

28 September 2022

This Data Insight draws on Data First magistrates’ and Crown Court datasets to examine ethnic disproportionality in court outcomes and the extent of ethnic disparities in imprisonment for defendants sentenced in the Crown Court after adjusting for defendant and case characteristics.

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

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

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

Data Insight: Childhood educational predictors of re-offending trajectories

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

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

Data Insight: School funding, pupil performance and crime

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

Data Insight: Inequalities in sentencing in the Crown Court - evidence from the Ministry of Justice Data First criminal justice datasets

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