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UK-Förderung (206.656 £): Regulierung der Justiz: Die Dynamik von Compliance und Verstoß in der Strafjustiz Sozialarbeit in Schottland Ukri01.12.2012 Forschung und Innovation im Vereinigten Königreich, Großbritannien
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Regulierung der Justiz: Die Dynamik von Compliance und Verstoß in der Strafjustiz Sozialarbeit in Schottland
| Zusammenfassung | Not only does Scotland imprison more people than most European countries, but our prison numbers are also rising despite a fall in crime levels. The Scottish Government is attempting to reduce imprisonment through increased use of community based disposals (probation orders, community service orders, community payback orders, supervised attendance orders) and early prison release schemes (parole and non-parole licence). However, the number of offenders who fail to comply with such orders (known as 'breach') appears to be increasing. Forty-one per cent of community-based disposals were subject to breach applications in 2009/10, resulting in many offenders being subsequently imprisoned, thus exacerbating the prison population and undermining positive work being undertaken by supervising social workers in the community. Reasons for non-compliance amongst offenders can include a perceived lack of legitimacy or fairness of a sentence by an individual offender or an inability to remember, or to afford travel to, appointments with supervising social workers. But also breach can result from overly risk-averse supervising officers or Parole Board members, or overly high expectations placed on offenders given community-based sentences by the judiciary. Not only can offenders' chaotic lifestyles affect their capacity to comply, but also sentencers and practitioners may overly depend on breach procedures as a means of responding to concerns regarding public protection and agency accountability. Several commentators have expressed concerns about the lack of research on compliance with community-based disposals, the impact of imprisonment on post-release compliance and why the system reacts to breaches in the ways that it does. This proposed research will thus be the first to more fully and systematically understand the dynamics of compliance and breach in Scotland. A total of 548 face to face interviews will be conducted with offenders (both those currently complying and those failing to comply), social workers and managers, the judiciary, defence lawyers, court staff and police in three case study areas in Scotland (Community Justice Authorities comprising 13 of the 32 local authority criminal justice social work departments) and with Parole Board members, prison staff and Scottish Government policy makers nationally. These in-depth interviews will be combined with quantitative data collection Scotland-wide on compliance and breach within community-based disposal and post-custodial licences over the last five years. The analysis will be informed by existing (albeit limited) literature on compliance and breach, but also the themes emerging from the statistical data and face-to-face interviews will inform a theoretical framework and typology of breach and compliance which will be of use not only to future criminal justice policy makers, academics and practitioners, but also to other academic and professional disciplines outside of the criminal justice arena. The findings from this research will be disseminated to academics, policy makers, practitioners and the general public through reports, conferences, articles, a consultation exercise and workshops, and media coverage, and the data collected from this research will be archived in the Economic and Social Data Service for future use by other researchers. |
| Kategorie | Research Grant |
| Referenz | ES/J02340X/1 |
| Status | Closed |
| Laufzeit von | 01.12.2012 |
| Laufzeit bis | 30.05.2015 |
| Fördersumme | 206.656,00 £ |
| Quelle | https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FJ02340X%2F1 |
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| University of Strathclyde |
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