§ Mr. McNamaraTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the titles of projects(a) undertaken and (b) completed by the Home Affairs Research and Statistics Directorate in the past six months, indicating which of these have been published and how their findings have been made available. [37221]
§ Mr. StrawThe following projects were either ongoing or completed during the period October 1997 to March 1998. Where a project has been completed, the publication reference is given:
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Project Title Status Publication Coroners Completed HORS to be published on 20 April Council of Europe Sourcebook ongoing — Crack cocaine and criminal lifestyles ongoing — Crime and opiate misuse ongoing — Crime recording practices (HMIC review) Completed Instruction books issued to police forces on 20 March 1998 Demanding Physical Programmes for Young Offenders ongoing — Developing a Risk/Needs Assessment Scale for the Probation Service Completed Published in Home Office guidance "Management and Assessment of Risk in the Probation Service, June 1997 Domestic violence Ongoing — Drugs Throughcare Ongoing — Electronic Monitoring of Curfew Orders: year two Completed HORS 177 and Research Findings 66 Entry into the CJS Ongoing — Ethnic monitoring by police forces Ongoing Information for 1996–97 published for the police in Home Office publication "Race and the Criminal Justice System"(December 1997) Ethnic Monitoring by police forces completed HORS 173, December 1997 Ethnicity and victimisation Completed HOSB 6/98–3 April 1998 Evaluating the effects of the bail process projects Completed HORS 184 to be published in April 1998 Evaluation of a link worker scheme to help deal with the mentally disordered at the police station Ongoing — Evaluation of court psychiatric assessment schemes for mentally disordered offenders Ongoing — Evaluation of Home Office cautioning circular 18/1994 Completed Research Findings 53 Evaluation of Incentives and Earned Privileges (IEP) Scheme Completed Not yet published. Research findings planned Evaluation of pilot projects for new community measures Ongoing — Evaluation of Pilot Regimes for Young Offenders: Colchester YOI and Thorn Cross HITP Ongoing — Evaluation of Sex Offender Treatment Programme (Part I) Completed Research findings in preparation for June 1998 Evaluation of the new PACE codes of practice Completed HORS 174 and Research Findings 62 Evaluation of the public order provisions of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 Ongoing — Evaluations of projects funded under European Year against Racism Ongoing — Exclusion from School, Criminal Careers and Effective Interventions Ongoing — Fast Tracking for Juveniles in the courts Completed Research Findings due in April 1998 Firearm offences Ongoing — Imposition and discharge of restriction orders Ongoing Report prepared for publication—May 1998 Knowledge of sentencing. Mike Hough & Julian Roberts Completed HORS 179 and Research Findings 64–5 January 1998 Lay Visitor Schemes Ongoing — LIPS/Surrey Probation Employment Initiatives Ongoing — Local Voluntary Activity Surveys Ongoing 3 LOVAS papers and 4 LOVAS Area Reports 1997. Other reports due soon Maintenance and Operation of Police Funding Formula Ongoing Police Grant Report (England and Wales) published 2 February 1998 Mandatory Drug Testing evaluation Ongoing — Misuse of Drugs Completed HORS 172,September 1997 Monitoring of Charities' incomes before and after the National Lottery Ongoing Due May-June and October-November 1998 Monitoring the right of silence provisions of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 Ongoing — Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinators completed Research findings 64 [full report available on request] New Methodology for Prison Population Projections Ongoing Paper at Or39 Conference of Operational Research Society—published in Operational Research Insight—January-March 1998 Notified addicts Ongoing — Offending on bail Ongoing Publication of Research Findings 72 expected April 1998 Offensive weapons Ongoing Statistical Findings in preparation Operation of s.48 of the Mental Health Act 1983 Ongoing Publication of Research Findings expected in May-June 1998 Perpetrators of racial harassment Completed HORS 176, November 1997 Police and ethnic minorities Completed Research Findings 59 Police recording practices Ongoing — Prison Service staff stress audit Ongoing — Prisoner activity expansion not yet started — Probation Motor Projects: a reconviction study Ongoing —
Project Title Status Publication Public attitudes to drug-related crime completed Research Findings 67, January 1998 Reconviction rates after sentence at the Crown Court completed Report made available in January 1998 Reconviction studies Ongoing — Reconviction study of those given community penalties: the effect of social variables Ongoing — Recording of racial incidents Ongoing — Relations between police and minority communities Ongoing — Review of Deterrence Ongoing — Sentencing practice in the courts following the CJAs 1991 and 1993 Ongoing To be published as a HORS, May 1998 Serious Offences Ongoing — Sex Offenders Treatment Programme for Rapists (Part II) Ongoing — Sexual victimisation Completed Academic Journal, Autumn 1997 Study of attrition process in rape cases Ongoing — Survey of absconding from hospital by restricted patients Ongoing — The admissibility and sufficiency of evidence in child abuse prosecutions Ongoing — The police and victims Completed Research Findings 60, December 1997 The Use of Pre-Sentence Information (school reports) in the Youth Court Completed Journal article in preparation; publication date not yet confirmed Third party disclosure Ongoing — Treatment of drug misusers in the community Ongoing — Urine testing of arrestees Completed Scheduled for publication April 1998 Victim statements and 'one stop shop' pilot projects Ongoing — Victims and witnesses in magistrates Courts Completed Research Findings 68 January 1998 Video violence and young offenders Completed Research Findings 65 Voluntary supervision of released prisoner Completed Publication due in next two months Vulnerable or Intimidated witnesses ongoing Publication planned in May as annex to Review group's report Work aimed at improving the quality of police incident data ongoing HMIC letter to Chief Constables issued 12 March 1998 Young offenders from different ethnic groups ongoing — Young people in multi-ethnic Britain ongoing — Note:
HORS = Home Office Research Study
HOSB = Home Office Statistical Bulletin
The research programme for 1998–99 will shortly be made available on the Home Office web site [http://www.open.gov.uk/home—off/rsd/rsdhome.htm] and a copy will be sent to the House of Commons Library. The list of current publications from the Research and Statistics Directorate is also available on the Home Office web site or from my department on request. All Research and Statistical publications are sent to the House of Commons Library as a matter of course.