Mark Liddle

• ARCS LTD

"This report summarises key findings from the “Perceptions of violence in London” research, funded by MOPAC. The research was delivered by the University of West London (UWL), in partnership with ARCS Ltd. The research was wide-ranging in its focus, and used a range of methods to collect and examine the perceptions of key stakeholder groups across...

The Intermediate Outcomes Measurement Instrument (IOMI) toolkit was developed by a research team led by RAND Europe, in partnership with ARCS (UK) and the University of South Wales. The team was commissioned by the Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS, formerly the National Offender Management Service) to deliver research focusing on w...

This is a summary version of: "Now All I Care About Is My Future." Supporting the shift - framework for the effective resettlement of young people leaving custody (full research report)

This report proposes a theory of change for the effective resettlement of young people leaving custody. It recognises that effective and sustainable resettlement facilitates a shift in the way that a young person sees themselves, from an identity that promotes offending to one that promotes a positive contribution to society. The framework highligh...

This report highlights key lessons from the Youth in Focus (YIF) programme and is the full research report that accompanies the Lessons from Youth in Focus summary report. The research report contains detailed information about each of the 15 YIF projects and their different models for delivering resettlement support to young custody leavers. It pr...

This report highlights key lessons from the Youth in Focus (YIF) programme, using the characteristics identified from five years of BYC’s research as a framework for understanding and describing these lessons. BYC research finds that effective resettlement is a process that supports a shift in a young person’s personal narrative, which starts with...

The report presents key findings from a review of the research and practice literature concerning trauma in the backgrounds of young people who offend. It aims to highlight what is currently known about trauma within the population of young offenders, and to identify the importance of this knowledge for effective resettlement practice. It focuses o...

This practitioner briefing outlines the key features of trauma-informed approaches to working with custody leavers. It also focuses on some of the implications that trauma and its effects might have for resettlement practice. It is important that resettlement work is anchored in an awareness of possible trauma in the backgrounds of young custody le...

This practitioner briefing aims to highlight what is currently known about the links between trauma and young people’s behaviour and development. Trauma and its effects are a key consideration for those who work with young offenders. Not only are traumatic experiences very common in the backgrounds of young offenders, but the impact of these exper...

This is a summary version of: Trauma and young offenders - a review of the research and practice literature

Effective resettlement has a wide range of benefits, both to individual young people and to wider society, but research also suggests very strongly that ‘getting it wrong’ can be enormously expensive to a range of stakeholders. Issues concerning costs and benefits are therefore of key importance to the field, not least because budgets continue to b...

The aim of this study was to understand perceptions of the nature of urban street gangs and whether these gangs have changed in recent years in the 33 areas that make up the Government’s Ending Gang and Youth Violence (EGYV) programme (HM Government, 2011a). The EGYV programme aims to improve the way that gangs are tackled locally through providing...

This document is the final report of an independent evaluation of the Offender Liaison and Diversion Trial Schemes. Liaison and diversion schemes operate primarily in police custody suites and courts and aim to identify and assess people with vulnerabilities as they pass through the criminal justice system, to ensure their needs are identified and...

The University of Salford and ARCS LTD were commissioned to undertake an evaluation of the North West Resettlement Consortium, which was created and funded by the Youth Justice Board. The overarching aims of the consortium were to develop positive links between the secure estate, youth offending teams (YOTs) and local authorities in order to improv...

The University of Salford and ARCS LTD were commissioned to undertake an evaluation of the South West Resettlement Consortium, which was created and funded by the Youth Justice Board. The overarching aims of the consortium were to develop positive links between the secure estate, youth offending teams (YOTs) and local authorities in order to improv...

This report explores how interventions for antisocial behaviour (ASB) are used in some local areas and the nature of the ASB. It pulls together two strands of work: a quantitative strand using data from local areas to look at Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships' (CDRPs) use of ASB interventions and a qualitative investigation of the context i...

Final evaluation of the Transitional Support Scheme (TSS), an all-Wales project offering ‘through the gate’ assistance to short-term male and female prisoners with substance misuse problems. TSS is assessed in terms of the quality and effectiveness of its organisational processes and practices, and its impact on the client group. TSS achieved high...

This is the final report highlighting key findings from an evaluation of the "include" programme, which delivered multi-faceted support for substance using young people in Wales. The evaluation was designed and delivered by Swansea University in partnership with ARCS LTD.

This report outlines key findings from an evaluation of the RESET, a major resettlement programme for young offenders. RESET was an ESF EQUAL (European) funded programme aiming to establish a best practice model of resettlement of young offenders in England. It was designed to challenge the lack of integration and cohesion between the agencies invo...

The Northern Ireland Youth Conferencing Service (YCS) was launched in December 2003 in response to recommendations made in the Belfast Agreement of 1998. The YCS conferencing process involves a meeting between the young person (between 10 and 18) who offended, the victim, and others who have been affected by the crime. The focus is on all parties r...

International reviews of crime prevention policy and practice serve a variety of useful purposes, but by synthesising key sources and experience across different jurisdictions, they can in particular help planners to make judgments about areas of work that are most promising or likely to generate positive outcomes in their own areas. Hence, reviews...

Although the question of whether men can ‘know feminist truths’ is a relative newcomer in the social sciences, it is one of a whole family of questions concerning men, feminism and sexual politics that have arisen with increasing frequency in recent literature and academic debate. Questions such as ‘Can men write like women, or write from women’s p...

This paper examines connections between masculinity, social order, and the state in history, through a focus on English state-formation. Drawing on recent work in anthropology, social history, and the sociology of masculinity, it is suggested that state-formation involves both a fundamental shift in the social structure of gender, and a more specif...

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Sociological work on violence has profited from the varied insights of feminist theorists about both the pervasiveness of violence against women and the impact of this violence on the lives of individual women. The field has also been enriched by efforts to describe particular kinds of violence against women as being linked to wider structures and...

This briefing presents the main findings of research on behalf of a Safer Communities partnership in an outer London borough into the offending histories and life experiences of persistent young offenders. It aimed to uncover links between risk factors and offending behaviour. There are implications for agencies that address youth offending, partic...