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Appendix 3
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS — england and wales
Current government research projects and pilots
Accommodation
Internal review of estate and accommodation: Lord Chancellor’s Department
Review of judges’ lodgings: The Court Service
Pathfinder: A model courtroom: The Crown Court Programme, The Court Service
Case management
Pilots on case progression: The Crown Court Programme, The Court Service
Case management perspectives: the views of judges across jurisdictions in England and Wales, Lord Chancellor’s Department research by Joyce Plotnikoff and Richard Woolfson (report expected in 2001)
The applicability to other adjudicative settings of organisational arrangements at the London Parking Service, Lord Chancellor’s Department research by John Raine and Stephanie Snape (report expected in 2001)
Children
Electronically monitored curfew for 10 to 15 year olds — report of the pilot, Robin Elliott, Jennifer Airs, Claire Easton and Ruth Lewis. Home Office Occasional Paper, 2000
Evaluation of the Youth Court Demonstration Project, Charlotte Allen, Iain Crow and Michael Cavadino. Home Office Research Study 214, 2000
New strategies to address youth offending: the national evaluation of then pilot youth offending teams, S Holdaway, M Davidson, J Dignan, R Hammersley, J Hine and P Marsh. Home Office Occasional Paper, No69, 2001
Delay
Reducing delay in the criminal justice system: evaluation of the indictable only initiative, Ernst and Young. Home Office Occasional Paper, 2000
Reducing delays in the magistrates’ courts, David Brown. Home Office Research Findings 131, 2000
Evaluation of statutory time limits in the Youth Court pilot, Home Office research by a team from Sheffield University, due to report at the beginning of 2002
Drugs
Drug Treatment And Testing Orders — the 18-Month evaluation, Paul Turnbull, Tim McSweeney and Mike Hough. Home Office Research Findings 128, 2000
Drug Treatment and Testing Orders - final evaluation report, Paul J Turnbull, Tim McSweeney, Russell Webster, Mark Edmunds and Mike Hough. Home Office Research Study 212, 2000
Drugs and crime: the results of the second developmental stage of the NEW-ADAM programme, Trevor Bennett. Home Office Research Study 205, 2000
Problem drug use and probation in London, Ian Hearnden and Alex Harcopos. Home Office Research Findings 112, 2000
Human Rights
The impact on courts and the administration of justice of the Human Rights Act 1998, Lord Chancellor’s Department research by John Raine and Clive Walker (on-going)
The Judiciary
The effects on magistrates of learning that the defendant has a previous conviction, Sally Lloyd-Bostock, Lord Chancellor’s Department research series, 2000
Review of research and secretariat support, House of Lords Appellate Committee
New public management and the administration of justice in the magistrates’ court, Lord Chancellor’s Department research by Ben Fitzpatrick, Peter Seago and David Wall (report expected in 2001)
The judiciary in the magistrates’ courts, Rod Morgan and Neil Russell. Home Office and LCD Occasional Paper 66, 2000
Legislation
An evaluation of the use and effectiveness of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, Jessica Harris. Home Office Research Study 203, 2000
The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 — An Evaluation of its use and effectiveness, Jessica Harris. Home Office Research Findings 130, 2000
Assessment of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders, Home Office research due to be completed in autumn 2001
New measures for fine defaulters, persistent petty offenders and others: reports of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 pilots, Robin Elliott and Jennifer Airs. Home Office Research Findings, 2000
The right of silence: the impact of the Criminal Justice Act 1994, Tom Bucke, Robert Street and David Brown. Home Office Research Study 199, 2000
Procedure and evidence
A study of requests for disclosure of evidence to third parties in contested trials, Alan Mackie and John Burrows. Home Office Research Findings 134, 2000
Evaluation of the operation of disclosure law, Home Office research by Joyce Plotnikoff and Richard Woolfson (final report due for publication in 2001)
Public confidence
Attitudes to crime and criminal justice: findings from the 1998 British Crime Survey, Joanna Mattinson and Catriona Mirrlees-Black. Home Office Research Study 200 and Research Findings 111, 2000
Pilots on provision of information to the public and court users: The Crown Court Programme, The Court Service
The 2000 British Crime Survey, Home Office Statistical Bulletin 18/00
Confidence in the criminal justice system: findings from the 2000 British Crime Survey, Catriona Mirrlees-Black, Home Office Research Findings 137, 2001
Race
Problems of perception and lack of trust, Roger Hood and Stephen Shute. On-going part of LCD Race and the Courts Research Programme
Sentencing
Effectiveness of 1991 Road Traffic Act - sentencing of careless and dangerous driving offenders, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Enforcement of financial penalties, An LCD/Home Office project to identify best practice in fine enforcement due to report in autumn 2001
Mentally disordered offenders, England and Wales, Home Office Statistical Bulletin 21/00
Professional awareness in sentencers, Ongoing Home Office research
Restorative Justice, An initial review of seven such schemes in England will be published by the Home Office in 2001. (The Youth Justice Board is also evaluating a number of new schemes for juvenile offenders)
Making punishments work: report of a review of the sentencing framework for England and Wales, John Halliday. Home Office, July 2001
Technology
Electronically monitored curfew as a condition of bail — report of the pilot, Jennifer Airs, Robin Elliott and Esther Conrad. Home Office Occasional Paper, 2000
Home Detention Curfew — the first year of operation, Kath Dodson and Ed Mortimer. Home Office Research Findings 110, 2000
Pilots on in-court technology (in-court workstation, digital audio recording, voice enhancement for witnesses, electronic presentation of evidence): The Crown Court Programme, The Court Service
Forensic science & technology, Home Office research programme (on-going)
Victims
CPS victim liaison pilots
Public perceptions and victims’ experiences of Victim Support: findings from the 1998 British Crime Survey Mike Maguire and Jocelyn Kynch. Home Office, Occasional Paper 2000
The impact of measures recommended in the report ‘Speaking Up For Justice’ to assist vulnerable and intimidated witnesses give best evidence, research by Liverpool John Moores and Manchester Universities, in conjunction with BMRB Social Research. A date for a final report of the Home Office sponsored project is to be agreed once implementation dates for the measures are decided
Victim and witness intimidation: key findings from the British Crime Survey, Roger Tarling, Lizanne Dowds and Tracey Budd. Home Office Research Findings 124, 2000
Victim Support: findings from the 1998 British Crime Survey, Mike Maguire and Jocelyn Kynch. Home Office Research Findings 117, 2000
Key findings from the witness satisfaction survey 2000, Emmy Whitehead, Home Office Research Findings 133, 2001 (a full Home Office report of survey will be available in 2001)
Research commissioned for the Criminal Courts Review
Evaluation of the composition of juries based on surveys from Liverpool, Nottingham and Durham Crown Court centres
The criminal standard of proof — how sure is sure, Michael Zander
What Can the English Legal System learn from jury research published up to 2000?, Andy Maughan, Angus Stewart and Penny Darbyshire
