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ABC | DEF | GHI | JKL | MNO | PQR | STU | VWX | YZ
ABC
- Access to Justice: evidence of the experiences of adults with mental health problems
- Access to Justice: evidence of the experiences of minority groups based on ethnicity, identity and sexuality
- Action research into the London resettlement pilot
- Are juries fair?
- Care profiling study
- Compendium of research and analysis on the Offender Assessment System
- Conditional cautions: an examination of the early implementation of the scheme
- Confidence in the criminal justice system: what lies beneath?
- County court anti-social behaviour co-ordinators - a pilot scheme
A report summarising international research evidence on the experiences of adults with mental health problems in the justice system.
Research report reviewing evidence on the experiences of minority groups in the justice system.
Report on action research into the London resettlement pilot conducted between May 2006 and August 2006 in Wormwood Scrubs prison and eight North West London boroughs.
A research report examining whether all-white juries discriminate against black and minority ethnic defendants.
A study providing baseline data on care proceedings brought under the Children Act 1989, which could be used to evaluate reforms to the care proceedings system.
This compendium presents research and analysis conducted over a three-year period from 2006 to 2009.
A report evaluating the implementation of conditional cautions in 13 Basic Command Units across six police force areas.
This report identifies factors that people consider when answering the British Crime Survey question used to measure public confidence in the Criminal Justice System.
A report assessing the role of county court anti-social behaviour co-ordinators under a scheme piloted for a year.
DEF
- Dedicated drug court pilots: a process report
- Diversity and fairness in the jury system
- Domestic Violence and the Supplemental Information Form C1A
- Early evaluation of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004
- Early evaluation of the Integrated Domestic Violence Court, Croydon
- Early neutral evaluation pilot in the Social Security and Child Support Tribunal
- Early process evaluation of the Public Law Outline in family courts
- Enhanced Thinking Skills programme: Outcomes and implementation of a randomised controlled trial
- Evaluation of the development of support services for victims of road traffic incidents
- Evaluation of the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre
- Evaluation of the victims' advocate scheme pilots
- Evaluation of young witness support: examining the impact on witnesses and the criminal justice system
- Evidence of harm to adults relating to exposure to extreme pornographic material
- Evidence-based practice? The National Probation Service’s work with alcohol misusing offenders
- Explaining attitudes towards the justice system in the UK and Europe
- Factors linked to reoffending
An independent evaluation of pilot dedicated drug courts, which were announced in December 2005 as part of the government's agenda to reduce drug-related crime.
This report examines whether the juror summoning process discriminates against black and minority ethnic (BME) groups.
Findings of an evaluation of the use and effect of the introduction of the form into the Family Court.
A study providing an early evaluation of some of the measures of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004.
A study to provide a snapshot of the progress of the Croydon Integrated Domestic Violence Court pilot after 12 months. It explores emerging issues and offers recommendations for policy and good practice.
Research conducted to evaluate the early neutral evaluation pilot in the Social Security and Child Support Tribunal.
A report presenting an early stage process evaluation of the Public Law Outline in family courts
Two reports on a randomised controlled trial of the Enhanced Thinking Skills programme.
This summary describes the main findings from research examining three Home Office-funded pilot schemes delivering support services to victims of road traffic incidents.
This report presents the findings of a survey of attitudes and perceptions in the area of North Liverpool served by the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre.
A research report evaluating the victims' advocate scheme, which explored ways to improve the support available to families in murder and manslaughter cases.
This research summarises an evaluation of six specialist young witness schemes.
This document reports on a rapid evidence assessment (REA) of the evidence of harm relating to exposure to extreme pornographic material (EPM).
A study by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research at King's College London, examining the National Probation Service's work with alcohol misusing offenders.
The aim of this study was to analyse what determines citizens' confidence in the justice system, by framing levels of confidence in the wider European context.
A one-year follow-up of prisoners who took part in the Resettlement Surveys 2001, 2003 and 2004.
GHI
- Go-Between: evaluation of intermediary pathfinder projects
- Human Rights Insight Project
- Implementing services for women offenders and those 'at risk' of offending - Action research with Together Women
- Improving employment interventions
- Inform, persuade and remind - An evaluation of a project to improve public confidence in the criminal justice system
- Initial evaluation of reconviction rates in community justice initiatives
- Intensive help for vulnerable people: applying case management models in the justice system
- International comparison of publicly funded legal services and justice systems
- Interventions aimed at reducing reoffending in female offenders
- Is the 2007 court fee remission system working?
This research summarises an evaluation of the implementation of the intermediary special measure in six pathfinder areas.
The findings from the Human Rights Insight Project, which set out to establish whether human rights could be used empirically as a tool to improve the public's experience of public services.
A research report on the early implementation of the Together Women programme, which addresses the needs of women offenders and those described as 'at risk' of offending.
A study evaluating the impact of the second phase of the Pathfinder project, which aimed at improving the effectiveness of getting offenders into work as a means of reducing reoffending.
A research report summarising the results of an experiment designed to test the impact of providing information upon public confidence in the criminal justice system.
A research report assessing the initial impact of Community Justice Initiatives in North Liverpool and Salford on reoffending rates.
A review of the use of case management models to support vulnerable people in the justice system.
Research exploring evidence to account for differences in public spending on providing access to justice in selected countries.
A rapid evidence assessment of evidence on the efficacy of interventions designed to reduce reoffending among female offenders.
Research on the 2007 court fee remission system and examination of court users’ views and experiences.
JKL
- Just satisfaction? What drives public and participant satisfaction with courts and tribunals
- Legal services reform: baseline survey
- Living together campaign - an investigation of its impact on legally aware cohabitants
- Local Criminal Justice Board effectiveness
- Longer-term outcomes in-court conciliation
A report examining UK and international evidence on what factors may be associated with public and participant satisfaction with the justice system.
A survey of consumers' experiences of using legal services for personal matters in England and Wales before the full implementation of the Legal Services Act 2007.
This is a report of a short study done in January and September 2006, to assess the attitudes and behaviour of a group of 'legally aware' cohabitants, former cohabitants and intending cohabitants who had accessed the Living Together Campaign's website.
A national survey of effective performance management and the performance of Local Criminal Justice Boards.
This report explores the longer-term outcomes of in-court conciliation (or alternative dispute resolution) in child contact cases.
MNO
- Monetary claims in county courts
- North Liverpool Community Justice Centre - Surveys of local residents
- Scoping project on no win no fee agreements in England and Wales
An analysis of civil monetary claims in county courts following the introduction of Civil Procedure Rules.
A report presenting the findings of a survey of attitudes and perceptions in the area of North Liverpool served by the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre.
A report defining work that can be carried out in relation to no win no fee agreements in employment tribunal, personal injury and media litigation cases.
PQR
- Assessment of the implementation of postal requisitioning in six pilot areas
- Impact of bad character provisions on the courts
- Piloting penalty notices for disorder on 10- to 15-year-olds
- Predicting and understanding risk of re-offending: the Prisoner Cohort Study
- Pro bono work provided by legal executives
- Problems and needs of newly sentenced prisoners - results from a national survey
- Process Evaluation of the Salford Community Justice Initiative
- Public opinion and the jury: an international literature review
- Public Protection, Proportionality and the Search for Balance
- Rapid Evidence Assessment of the evidence on the effectiveness of interventions with persistent/prolific offenders in reducing re-offending
- Relationship between rights and responsibilities
- Research into enforcement of employment tribunal awards in England and Wales
- Restorative justice and reoffending
- Restorative Justice: the views of victims and offenders - the third report from the evaluation of three schemes
A report about postal requisitioning which offers an alternative to traditional charging/summons methods, and introduces a new way for the police to get a person to court, notifying them of a court date by post.
A report on bad character applications at six court centres during 2006. The new provision provided a systematic way for bad character evidence to be admitted at criminal trials.
An overview of the use of the Penalty Notice for Disorder on 10- to 15 year-olds in the six pilot forces between July 2005 and June 2006.
Research summary on predicting and understanding the risk of re-offending of prisoners with dangerous and severe personality disorder.
A research report on the extent and value of pro bono work (work done without compensation for the public good) undertaken by legal executives.
This report presents information derived from interviews conducted shortly after reception into prison with a representative sample of nearly 1,500 newly sentenced adult prisoners.
Research examining various aspects of the Initiative, including the set-up phase, community engagement activity, problem solving processes and court processes.
A report bringing together findings from a number of surveys on public attitudes to juries, focusing on England and Wales but also drawing on international research.
This report examines how courts in the UK and Europe respond when human rights and security appear to conflict.
A paper reporting on the results from a Rapid Evidence Assessment
A study examining the idea of constitutional responsibilities within the context of the current debate on a new British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.
Research on the enforcement of awards made by employment tribunals.
An evaluation of the impact of restorative justice in reducing reoffending.
This is the third report from the study of three Restorative Justice (RJ) schemes.
STU
- Satellite Tracking of Offenders: A Study of the Pilots in England and Wales
- Sentencing and its outcomes: pilot study
- Sexual offenders risk assessment tool pilot
- Towards a policy evaluation service: Developing infrastructure to support the use of experimental and quasi-experimental methods.
- Training and regulating providers of publicly funded legal advice
- Twelve months later: does advice help? The impact of debt advice - advice agency clients study
- Twisting arms: court referred and court linked mediation under judicial pressure
This summary evaluates the satellite tracking pilots that took place between September 2004 and June 2006 in three areas in England and Wales.
A report on testing the viability of conducting a study of sentencing in England and Wales using administrative data.
Research on findings from the Stable and Acute risk assessment pilot used with sexual offenders in England and Wales.
This report looks at the arguments concerning the development of infrastructure to support policy outcome evaluation, and proposes the creation of a new policy evaluation service.
A research report on the impact of various systems of training and regulation on perceptions of the quality of civil legal advice given to clients.
This report details the findings of a longitudinal study of (not for profit) advice agency debt advice clients.
This report evaluates a) a quasi-compulsory mediation programme and b) a voluntary mediation scheme. The results describe the uptake of mediation, user experiences, and the potential of mediation to offer savings to the justice system.
VWX
- Violence interventions systematic review
- What's cost got to do with it? The impact of changing court fees on users
- Witness and Victim Experience Survey: early findings
A systematic review of the national and international evidence on the effectiveness of interventions with violent offenders.
This report examines the impact of changing court fees on users of civil and family courts in England and Wales.
A report exploring victims' and witnesses' experiences of the criminal justice system and of the progress made at a local and national level against key initiatives.