Risk of Serious Violence of those already known to the Probation Service - a research study
This study responds to a 2021 commission when the then-Prime Minister asked the Ministry of Justice to investigate whether improved data sharing between police and probation services could help to improve the Probation Service’s ability to assess the risk of people on probation going on to commit serious violence using pre-existing risk assessment tools coupled with richer data sources. The research aims were agreed as part of the formal commission to the Ministry of Justice. These were:
To review offender characteristics available to the Ministry of Justice that are associated with the risk of serious violence reoffending for people already on Probation.
To explore the power of local police data to improve the estimation of the risk of serious violence reoffending by people already on Probation.
To test whether more innovative techniques can improve the risk assessments for future serious violence by people already on Probation.
Photo by Arifin Salleh on Unsplash