Supporting offenders with multiple needs: Lessons for the ‘mixed economy’ model of service provision
This article draws on an evaluation of a large-scale programme in London, ‘From Dependency to Work’ (D2W), to discuss the obstacles to effective work with offenders with multiple needs. D2W, a five-year programme funded through the Single Regeneration Budget, aimed to support offenders with a range...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Criminal justice (London, England : 2001) England : 2001), 2006-02, Vol.6 (1), p.107-125 |
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Zusammenfassung: | This article draws on an evaluation of a large-scale programme in London,
‘From Dependency to Work’ (D2W), to discuss the obstacles to
effective work with offenders with multiple needs. D2W, a five-year programme funded
through the Single Regeneration Budget, aimed to support offenders with a range of
multiple needs including drug dependence, mental health issues, employment problems
and illiteracy. It was an ambitious programme that sought to co-ordinate the work of
statutory and voluntary agencies in a similar way to the ‘mixed
economy’ model envisaged for the National Offender Management Service
(NOMS); that met with implementation problems, which limited its overall impact.
These related in part to problems in finding ways of effectively assessing those
with multiple needs, and planning a rational sequence of interventions; but the way
in which the programme was performance-managed also destabilized the partnership to
a considerable degree. The study carries important lessons for NOMS, both in
relation to approaches to offender management and to contract management. |
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ISSN: | 1466-8025 1748-8958 1748-8966 |
DOI: | 10.1177/1748895806060669 |