Justice Data Lab statistics: April 2022
Tailored reports assessing the impact on rehabilitation programmes on reoffending behaviour analysed within the previous quarter, and summary of results to date.
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The report is released by the Ministry of Justice and produced in accordance with arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority. For further information about the Justice Data Lab, please refer to the guidance.
Key findings this quarter
One request is being published this quarter: Spark Inside (2016-2018).
Spark Inside
Spark Inside works with young male offenders, who are within 6 months of the end of their custodial sentence. This is the first JDL evaluation for Spark Inside, looking at programme participants between 2016 and 2018.
The overall results do not show that the programme had a statistically significant effect on a person’s reoffending behaviour. They suggest more people need to be available for analysis to determine the way in which the programme affects the one-year proven reoffending rate, the frequency of proven reoffences, and the time taken to reoffend.
Justice Data Lab service: available reoffending data
The Justice Data Lab team have brought in reoffending data for the first quarter of 2020 into the service. It is now possible for an organisation to submit information on the individuals it was working with up to the end of March 2020, in addition to during the years 2002 to 2019.
Pre-release access
The bulletin is produced and handled by the Ministry’s analytical professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons: Minister of State, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Special Advisers, Permanent Secretary, Head of News, Deputy Head of News, 2 Director Generals, 5 press officers, 3 policy officials, and 10 analytical officials.