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All research and evidence on NICCO is reviewed using a Quality Assessment Tool (QAT) developed by the University of Huddersfield and Barnardo's.

Research and evidence is assessed in four key areas: Methodological Quality, Child-Centredness, Relevance to Policy and Strategy, and Relevance to Practice with offender's children. This ensures that items on the NICCO website are as useful as possible to academics, practitioners, commissioners and other professionals. For more information about the development of the QAT or to review research in order to list it on NICCO, please see the QAT webpage where you can download the Tool, Guidebook and a short step-by-step 'How To' document. Please contact us to submit quality assessed research on to NICCO.

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79. Mitigating Motherhood: A study of the impact of motherhood on sentencing decisions in England and Wales

This study investigates whether the caring responsibilities of a defendant mother are treated as personal mitigation to reduce sentence length in England and Wales. The peer-reviewed research uses a combination of textual analysis of secondary data (transcripts of Crown Court sentencing remarks) and interview data. The research found that there is inconsistency in the application of personal mitigation to sentencing due to the exercise of judicial discretion. Judges with a greater...

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80. 'Mothering from the Inside' - A Small Scale Evaluation of Acorn House, an Overnight Child Contact Facility at HMP Askham Grange

This article looks at a scheme based at HMP Askham Grange, an open women's prison, where children can spend up to 48 hours with their imprisoned mother. Children stay with their mothers in Acorn House, which is within the prison grounds, with no intervention from staff apart from when meals are brought from the main prison. The article focuses on messages about the limitations of the usual prison visiting arrangements, compared to the benefits offered by overnight contact at Acorn...

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81. The Good Prison, Conscience, Crime and Punishment

Gerard Lemos visited many prisons and talked to hundreds of prisoners, staff and governors. In this book he sets out an approach to managing prisons which means prisoners make amends for their crimes, as well as participating in personalised activities that change their lives permanently for the better and ensure they do not reoffend. Instead of the emphasis on work and skills, Lemos focuses on mindfulness, creativity, empathy, well-being and importantly for i-HOP users, family as the most...

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82. Arresting Development?

This article, from Kris Christmann (part of the COPING research team) focuses on the impact of police practice and specifically arrest, on the wellbeing of children whose parents and loved ones are involved in the CJS. There are examples of, and discussions around, positive and negative experiences of children who's parents had been arrested including being spared the witness of handcuffing, immediate child care decisions and home searches. Download a photocopy of the article below.

Arresting Development

83. Ambiguous Loss and Post-traumatic Stress in School-Age Children of Prisoners

You need access to Springer Link to view this article in the Journal of Child and Family studies, or to buy or rent it. This peer reviewed psychological research from the US applies mixed methods to decipher key themes related to the imprisonment of primary care givers. The participants were a group of school aged children who were enrolled in a government funded mentoring programme. The research shows a high prevalence of post-traumatic stress and internalised and externalised behaviours...

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84. 'Prison Without bars': Needs, support, and good practice for work with Prisoners' Families

This research predominantly focuses on what does and could work in Scotland regarding support for prisoners' families - but can be learned from by people from any country. It references 13 pages of research and policy from around the world as well as multiple resources, services and examples of practice in order to analyse and describe the needs, support and good practice for work with prisoners' families. The report first looks at research and examples around the impact of...

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