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9 results foundAuthor: Jacobson, Jessica Title: 'Double Trouble'? Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Offenders' Experiences of Resettlement Summary: The background to the study was the recognition of the critical importance of resettlement provision for offenders, and the evidence of continuing direct and indirect racial discrimination across the criminal justice system as a whole. The study addressed the following questions: 1 What are the major resettlement needs of offenders from BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Offenders) groups? 2 How do BAME offenders’ needs differ from those of non-BAME offenders? 3 What are BAME offenders’ experiences of resettlement services? 4 Should specialist resettlement services be made available for BAME offenders? The study had two elements: first, a literature review and, second, qualitative fieldwork. The fieldwork involved semi-structured interviews and focus groups with a total of 113 BAME individuals, of whom 65 were serving prisoners, 28 were on licence and 20 were no longer on licence but had previously been in prison. In addition we conducted interviews and focus groups with 83 representatives of service providers, including prison and probation staff and staff from community and prison-based voluntary agencies. Details: York, UK: Clinks; London: Prison Reform Trust, 2010. 48p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 14, 2011 at: Year: 2010 Country: United Kingdom URL: Shelf Number: 120920 Keywords: DiscriminationEmploymentHousingPrisoner Reentry (U.K.)Race/EthnicityRacial Disparities |
Author: Park, Graham Title: Through the Gates: Improving the Effectiveness of Prison Discharge - First Half Year Evaluation August 2008 to January 2009. Summary: Through The Gates describes itself as a scheme to reduce re-offending by prisoners by ensuring they are supported before release, on the day of release and for some weeks after release if necessary by engaging them with housing, benefits, specialist agencies and pobation. It aims to fill the gap between prison-based and community-based support services, carrying peole through the difficult post release period and linking them to support and supervision in the community before closing the case. Tis report covers the first six months of the St.Giles Through The Gates 2008/2009 expanded service. It follows a 2007/2008 pilot service in Lambeth and Southwark only. The purpose of the report is to ascertain whether the service might reasonably be recommissioned by London Probation or be funded in another way, and to inform St.Giles on their own performance and amendments they might wish to make to various aspects of their practice. Both quantitative (numbers) and qualitative (experiences and opinions) data are presented. Details: London: Graham Park Consulting; London: St. Giles Trust, 2009. 36p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 22, 2011 at: http://hlg.org.uk/home/resources/Criminal-Justice---Offending/Homelessness-Code-of-Guidance-(2).aspx Year: 2009 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://hlg.org.uk/home/resources/Criminal-Justice---Offending/Homelessness-Code-of-Guidance-(2).aspx Shelf Number: 122148 Keywords: Community SupervisionPrisoner Reentry (U.K.)Probation |
Author: Boyce, Isabella Title: St. Giles Trust Peer Advice Project: An Evaluation Summary: St Giles Trust’s Peer Advice Project is an innovative project focusing on the resettlement of offenders. It has three key elements. First the project aims to advance the skills and employability of prisoners by offering a recognised qualification (NVQ [National Vocational Qualification] Level 3 Advice and Guidance). Second, the Trust provides a housing advice service to a number of prisons in London and the South of England, training and supervising serving prisoners to deliver the housing advice. Third, as well as peer advice in prison, St Giles Trust offers employment experience for offenders on their release from custody via their involvement in mentoring schemes, including ‘Through the Gates’ project to support the resettlement of their peers. The Peer Advice Project tests out the concept that prisoners themselves can be an important resource in the rehabilitation and resettlement processes, and thus serves as a counterbalance to the widespread belief that programmes are something that are “done” to offenders by specialists. Consistent with desistance theory, the Project emphasises prisoners’ ‘agency’ – where giving up offending is an active choice made by offenders – as an important ingredient of success. An important feature of the St Giles Trust Project is that there is a ‘multiplier effect’ whereby benefits that accrue to individuals from their work as Peer Advisors are matched by benefits to the recipients of their advice. This report presents the results of a ‘process evaluation’. That is, it was conducted to help the St Giles Trust develop and fine-tune the prison Peer Advice Project and its community services by describing how the scheme was working in practice. It was not conceived of as an experiment to quantify the service’s impact in terms of crime reduction. Nevertheless, many of the findings point to the importance and value of the work of St Giles Trust. The evaluation of the service has included following a cohort of Peer Advisors over time, interviewing clients and volunteers in the community, collating project activity data and highlighting operational issues via observation and interviews with staff, Peer Advisors and key stakeholders. Details: London: St. Giles Trust, 2009. 45p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 22, 2011 at: http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/3794/ Year: 2009 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/3794/ Shelf Number: 122149 Keywords: MentoringPrisoner Reentry (U.K.)Rehabilitation |
Author: Gojkovic, Dina Title: Scoping the Involvement of Third Sector Organisations in the Seven Resettlement Pathways for Offenders Summary: The role of the third sector in the resettlement of offenders has become a prominent issue in recent years, and is increasingly recognised as being essential to efforts to reduce re-offending. A reasonable amount of knowledge already exists about public sector organisations which engage in work with offenders through the seven ‘pathways’ of resettlement: accommodation; education, employment and training; health; drugs and alcohol; finance, benefit and debt; children and families; and attitudes, thinking and behaviour. Determining the number and nature of third sector organisations involved in work with offenders is more complex. This paper aims to map out the landscape and extent of third sector involvement in the resettlement of offenders, with a specific focus on the seven pathways. Using existing datasets, it looks at the properties of third sector organisations working with offenders, more specifically their size, number, geographic area of operation and total income. It is estimated that nearly 20,000 third sector organisations work with offenders in England and Wales, and that they rely predominantly on public sector funding for survival. Compared to the figures for all third sector organisations there is over representation of organisations providing accommodation services, health care and family-support services to offenders. The implications of these and other findings are also discussed. Details: Birmingham, UK: Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham, 2011. 24p. Source: Internet Resource: Working Paper 57: Accessed August 23, 2011 at: http://www.tsrc.ac.uk/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=JnJy2cVtYx0%3d&tabid=500 Year: 2011 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.tsrc.ac.uk/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=JnJy2cVtYx0%3d&tabid=500 Shelf Number: 122468 Keywords: CollaborationOffendersPartnershipsPrisoner Reentry (U.K.)Rehabilitation |
Author: Kilsby, Mark Title: Independent Evaluation of the Vulnerable Learners Apprenticeship Project Summary: The Vulnerable Learner Apprenticeship Project (VLP) is a pilot funded through Kent County Council (KCC) focussing on early intervention for 4 groups of vulnerable people aged 16 to 24 years, considered ‘NEET’. The cohorts are i) Young Parents ii) Young People with Learning and/or Physical Disabilities and/or Mental Health Issues iii) Young Offenders iv) Looked After Children Leaving Care. The VLP intervention aimed to enable 20 young people from each group to access local apprenticeship opportunities and help them to engage/re-engage more fully in the labour market. KCC paid the salary of each young person (£105pw) for 12 months with the support of local specialist teams. Ten Training Providers delivered the assessment and training aspects of the apprenticeships. This evaluation covers the progress of the project for the first 19 months from September 1st 2010 to March 31st 2012. Details: Cardiff: Kilsby/Allan Consulting, 2012. 61p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 4, 2012 at: http://base-uk.org/sites/base-uk.org/files/knowledge/Evaluation%20of%20the%20Vulnerable%20Learner%20Apprenticeship%20Project/final_vlp_eval_july2012.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://base-uk.org/sites/base-uk.org/files/knowledge/Evaluation%20of%20the%20Vulnerable%20Learner%20Apprenticeship%20Project/final_vlp_eval_july2012.pdf Shelf Number: 126239 Keywords: Ex-OffendersLearning DisabilitiesPrisoner Reentry (U.K.)Young Adult Offenders |
Author: Edgar, Kimmett Title: Out For Good: Taking Responsibility for Resettlement Summary: Enabling prisoners to take responsibility for their own resettlement is key to helping them address the challenges they will face on release and reduce their risk of reoffending, according to a new report by the Prison Reform Trust. Effective resettlement - the successful re-integration of people after prison - is a linchpin for reducing reoffending and a key element of the Coalition Government’s rehabilitation revolution. However, while prisoners hope to be out for good, almost half of adults released from prison are reconvicted within one year of release; the rate is 57% for those serving sentences of less than 12 months. Factors linked to re-offending help to explain these high rates: •79% of offenders who are homeless at the time they go to prison are reconvicted, compared to 47% who have accommodation •Over half of prisoners report that their drug-taking is a factor in acquisitive offences such as shoplifting, vehicle crime and theft •Only 36% of people leaving prison go into a job, educational course or training •48% of prisoners are at, or below, the level expected of an 11 year old in reading, 65% in numeracy and 82% in writing Drawing on the views and experiences of prisoners, along with prison governors and staff and voluntary sector providers, the Prison Reform Trust, supported by the Pilgrim Trust, conducted applied research to determine what makes for effective resettlement. The reports’ authors visited nine prisons, held discussion groups with about 40 prisoners and 30 staff, and interviewed 34 individual prisoners, and a wide range of staff from the prison service and the voluntary sector. Out for Good: taking responsibility for resettlement, also draws on data provided by the Prisoners Education Trust, from its Inside Time survey of 532 prisoners on their plans for resettlement. Key to effective resettlement was a commitment by prison staff to work closely with the prisoner not just to do things to, or for them. Alongside controlling risk and managing cases, prison staff and support services needed to share responsibility with the person preparing for his or her resettlement. Prison staff should enable offenders to make choices about the practical challenges they will face on release, and support those choices with appropriate help and advice. The prisoners interviewed as part of the study advocated a new set of priorities for resettlement work while in prison. These include: • An individual approach to each prisoner • Provision of information prisoners need to make reasoned decisions • Enhanced communication with the outside • Extended use of Release on Temporary Licence • Training focused on employable skills • Improved contact with family and involvement of families in preparation for release Most of the solutions to effective resettlement do not lie behind bars. The report recommends that the Ministry of Justice should work across government departments and local authorities to put in place housing, employment, health and social care and family support which are pivotal to successful rehabilitation. The report also recommends that prison managers should place the concept of sharing responsibility for resettlement between staff members and individual prisoners at the heart of their resettlement strategy. Every resettlement team should develop links to community-based organisations with the expertise prisoners need, including housing, finance and debt, family support and employment. Details: London: Prison Reform Trust, 2012. 99p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 13, 2012 at: http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/Portals/0/Documents/OutforGood.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/Portals/0/Documents/OutforGood.pdf Shelf Number: 126332 Keywords: Ex-OffendersPrisoner Reentry (U.K.)RehabilitationResettlement |
Author: Feasey, Simon Title: The Resettlement of Offenders and ex-Offenders in Doncaster: Developing an Integrated Framework Summary: The Hallam Centre for Community Justice (HCCJ) was commissioned by Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council (DMBC), to undertake an evaluation of the existing processes and arrangements that underpin the delivery of services to offenders and ex-offenders within the district. From this evaluation a needs and gap analysis has been completed which informs the identification of a set of key proposals which underpin the development of an Integrated Framework for Resettlement. In order to progress this piece of research the HCCJ developed a four component methodology which included a range of evaluation methods which were designed to ensure that both quantitative and qualitative data sources from a broad range of agencies were analysed to ensure that diverse and divergent perspectives were identified and discussed. This Final Report includes the analysis of data across the four components which included: • An analysis of current provision and service and offender needs; • A Gap Analysis that identifies the gap between offender needs and the provision of services; • A Directory of Services to provide an information bank for service providers; • An Integrated Framework for Multi-agency Delivery. Within these four components were specified a number of approaches including: • Focus groups with offenders within custodial and community settings; • Semi-structured interviews with key managers, practitioners and policy makers; • An on-line survey across the community justice sector with the district; • The analysis of desk top materials including strategy documents and statistical data; • The completion of three Consultative Workshops to debate and explore emerging themes and proposals. Details: Sheffield, UK: Hallam Centre for Community Justice, Sheffield Hallam University, 2008. 76p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 5, 2013 at: http://shura.shu.ac.uk/998/1/fulltext.pdf Year: 2008 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://shura.shu.ac.uk/998/1/fulltext.pdf Shelf Number: 129544 Keywords: Ex-OffendersPrisoner Reentry (U.K.)Resettlement |
Author: Williams, Kim Title: Accommodation, homelessness and reoffending of prisoners: Results from the Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction (SPCR) survey Summary: This report summarises the accommodation backgrounds and needs of newly sentenced prisoners, and the links between these and reoffending on release. Data for this report come from Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction (SPCR) (a longitudinal cohort study of 1,435 adult prisoners sentenced to between one month and four years in prison in 2005 and 2006), the Police National Computer (PNC), and the 2003 general population survey - the Offending, Crime, and Justice Survey (OCJS). Details: London: Ministry of Justice, 2012. 6p. Source: Internet Resource: Research Summary 3/12: Accessed December 9, 2014 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/278806/homelessness-reoffending-prisoners.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/278806/homelessness-reoffending-prisoners.pdf Shelf Number: 130130 Keywords: HomelessnessHousingPrisoner Reentry (U.K.)Recidivism |
Author: Day, Mark Title: Release on temporary licence and its role in promoting effective resettlement and rehabilitation Summary: Release on temporary licence (ROTL) is a pivotal part of the process of resettlement and rehabilitation. For many people in prison, particularly those who are serving long sentences, the chance to experience ROTL and open prison conditions are a vital stage in the preparation for their safe release. They enable people to sort out jobs, housing and establish contact with families which help them to reduce their risk of reoffending. Less than 1% of releases on temporary licence fail and, of these, only 6.1% involve an arrestable offence. This is the equivalent of five arrests per 100,000 releases. The government has conducted a review into ROTL following three tragic incidents involving people on temporary release in the summer of 2013 and a small number of high profile absconds from open prisons in 2014. Interim measures have been put in place and a revised policy is expected to be introduced in February 2015. Since the start of the review, people in prison in contact with the Prison Reform Trust have reported increasing delays in obtaining access to open conditions and permission for temporary release and mounting frustration at being denied opportunities to progress their sentences. The latest Ministry of Justice statistics show that the number of releases on temporary licence has decreased by nearly one quarter since 2013. This briefing highlights the importance of ROTL for reducing reoffending and calls for a review of the government's changes to the scheme to ensure fairness and proportionality. Details: London: Prison Reform Trust, 2015. 19p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 26, 2015 at: http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/Portals/0/Documents/InsideOutfinal.pdf Year: 2015 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/Portals/0/Documents/InsideOutfinal.pdf Shelf Number: 134720 Keywords: Prisoner Reentry (U.K.)Prisoner RehabilitationResettlementTemporary Release |