Designing and Evaluating Interventions to Reduce Crime and Reoffending Summary

Helpful resources

General advice on proportionate evaluation for small-scale projects

http://project-oracle.com/standards-of-evidence/

http://www.clinks.org/community/blog-posts/how-can-we-make-evidence-easier#comment-form   (see embedded presentation)

Evaluation Plan Worksheets

http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande/planning/pdf/EvaluationPlanWorksheet.doc

http://learningstore.uwex.edu/assets/pdfs/G3658-1W.PDF

http://project-oracle.com/uploads/files/2.3_Project_Oracle_Evaluation_plan_example_and_template_-_June_2014.pdf

http://www.ces-vol.org.uk/Resources/CharitiesEvaluationServices/Documents/Monitoring%20and%20evaluation%20framework.pdf

Logic model and theory of change, templates and flowcharts

http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande/evaluation/evallogicmodelworksheets.html

http://www.evaluationsupportscotland.org.uk/resources/127/

http://www.clinks.org/sites/default/files/TheoryofChangeGuide.pdf

http://www.clinks.org/sites/default/files/SHIFT%20Hereforshire%20ToC.pdf

Writing an evaluation report.

http://www.uic.edu/depts/crwg/cwitguide/05_EvalGuide_STAGE3.pdf

http://www.evaluationsupportscotland.org.uk/resources/135/

An example of commissioning using key elements of the 5 step approach: Reducing Reoffending Change fund guidance

http://scotland.gov.uk/Topics/archive/law-order/offender-management/changefund/changefundguidance

What works to Reduce Crime – Scottish Government

http://www.scotland.gov.uk8af499e7-1ef3-4f1e-a265-cc77fb13f77a

‘What works’ and desistance theory –full reports

Reducing Reoffending Review- Scottish Government
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0038/00385880.pdf

Strengthening Transnational Approaches to Reducing Reoffending – University of Cambridge
http://www.cepprobation.org/uploaded_files/Rep%20STARR%20ENG.pdf

Transforming rehabilitation – A summary of evidence on reducing reoffending – Ministry of Justice
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/243718/evidence-reduce-reoffending.pdf

Campbell Collaboration Systematic Reviews (e.g. on mentoring and prison-based drug interventions)
http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/lib/?go=monograph

Discovering Desistance – McNeill et al
http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/79860/1/79860.pdf

Key practice skills research

Practitioner skills and attributes
http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/38070/1/21st_c.pdf

Motivating Offenders to Change
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Motivating-Offenders-Change-Engagement-Psychology/dp/047149755X

The quality of probation supervision – A literature review
https://www.shef.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.159010!/file/QualityofProbationSupervision.pdf

Recent key texts

http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1995-98528-000

Writing an evaluation report.

http://www.uic.edu/depts/crwg/cwitguide/05_EvalGuide_STAGE3.pdf

An example of commissioning using key elements of the 5 step approach: Reducing Reoffending Change fund guidance

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Justice/public-safety/offendermanagement/changefund/changefundguidance