Local Justice Reinvestment Pilot: Final process evaluation report

This is the final report of the process evaluation of the Local Justice Reinvestment pilot commissioned by the Ministry of Justice. The pilot aimed to: test the premise that there were significant potential reductions in crime and reoffending to be made by partners working more effectively together at the local level; understand the extent to which local partners were incentivised to change their behaviours; and test a concept from which evidence could be generated to inform the development of policy on widening the use of Payment by Results, local partnership working and local commissioning decisions The report summarises the governance arrangements at each of the sites, outlines the interventions implemented by the sites during the pilot, summarises how the reward payment from year one was allocated and examines other initiatives that may have impacted on the pilot. It identifies the strengths and challenges in the implementation of the pilot. examines the performance of the sites against the metrics and identifies factors that may have contributed to the results. It outlines the main conclusions and implications for policy based on the lessons learned from both years of the pilot

Transition to Adulthood Pathway Programme Evaluation: First interim report

This report presents research findings focussed on the development, set-up and early implementation of the Transition to Adulthood Pathway Programme, examining the effectiveness of the processes and partnership arrangements used to deliver the approach within each project site

Non-symmetric perturbations of self-adjoint operators

We investigate the effect of non-symmetric relatively bounded perturbations on the spectrum of self-adjoint operators. In particular, we establish stability theorems for one or infinitely many spectral gaps along with corresponding resolvent estimates. These results extend, and improve, classical perturbation results by Kato and by Gohberg/Krein. Further, we study essential spectral gaps and perturbations exhibiting additional structure with respect to the unperturbed operator; in the latter case, we can even allow for perturbations with relative bound ≥1. The generality of our results is illustrated by several applications, massive and massless Dirac operators, point-coupled periodic systems, and two-channel Hamiltonians with dissipation

Sustaining the crime reduction impact of designing out crime: Re-evaluating the Secured by Design scheme 10 years on

Secured by Design (SBD) is an award scheme that aims to encourage housing developers to design out crime at the planning or concept stage. The scheme is managed by the Association of Chief Police Officers Crime Reduction Initiatives (ACPO CPI) while the day-to-day delivery of the scheme is conducted by Architectural Liaison Officers (ALOs) or Crime Prevention Design Advisors (CPDAs) working for individual police forces throughout the United Kingdom. The scheme sets standards for compliance that developments must meet to be awarded SBD status. This article presents the findings of research conducted over a 10-year period (1999–2009) into the effectiveness of the SBD scheme as a crime reduction measure. Utilising a variety of methods, the research aims to establish whether residents living within SBD developments experience less crime and fear of crime than their non-SBD counterparts; whether SBD developments show less visual signs of crime and disorder than their non-SBD counterparts; and finally, whether properties built to the SBD standard are able to sustain any crime reduction benefits over a 10-year period

A VICTIM IS A VICTIM IS A VICTIM?: Chronic Victimization in Four Sweeps of the British Crime Survey

This paper builds on previous work which identified the importance of multiple victimization in determining crime rates. Using the first four sweeps of the British Crime Survey, patterns of property and personal crime victimization are investigated, and the interdependence of incidents is established: the probability of a further victimization increases with each subsequent victimization. A comparison is made between the observed distribution, and a hypothetical distribution which assumes that crime incidents are randomly distributed throughout the population. Given the extent of concentration of incidents amongst a small number of chronic victims, recommendations are made for the way official crime statistics are recorded