This section contains publications and follow-up reports on our regular research programme, as well as any special projects that we initiate.
- Witness and Victim Experience Survey: early findings
- Date: 03 July 2008
- 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.
- Restorative justice and reoffending
- Date: 16 June 2008
- An evaluation of the impact of restorative justice in reducing reoffending.
- Explaining attitudes towards the justice system in the UK and Europe
- Date: 11 June 2008
- 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.
- Improving employment interventions
- Date: 20 May 2008
- 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.
- Interventions aimed at reducing reoffending in female offenders
- Date: 19 May 2008
- A rapid evidence assessment of evidence on the efficacy of interventions designed to reduce reoffending among female offenders.
- Dedicated drug court pilots: a process report
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- Date: 01 April 2008
- 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.
- Just satisfaction? What drives public and participant satisfaction with courts and tribunals
- Date: 27 March 2008
- A report examining UK and international evidence on what factors may be associated with public and participant satisfaction with the justice system.
- Care profiling study
- Date: 03 March 2008
- 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.
- Local Criminal Justice Board effectiveness
- Date: 29 February 2008
- A national survey of effective performance management and the performance of Local Criminal Justice Boards.
- Pro bono work provided by legal executives
- Date: 18 February 2008
- A research report on the extent and value of pro bono work (work done without compensation for the public good) undertaken by legal executives.
- Human Rights Insight Project
- Date: 10 January 2008
- 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.