Directory of Research

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.

Click on the icons to see a full list of items which have been awarded a standard icon or icon+ (for items which have scored particularly highly) in each key area:

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127. Re-framing the Analysis: A 3-dimensional Perspective of Prisoners' Children's Well-being
You will need to become a member of Wiley Online to gain full access to this article. This article considers three under analysed aspects of the wellbeing of children affected by parental imprisonment: time, space and agency. Time is considered in terms of children's past experiences and anticipated futures. Space is the thinking around new or changed environments. Agency is about resilience to structural, material and social confines which can intensify vulnerability. The interaction...
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128. Prospects for a Desistance Agenda
This report presents the findings from interviews with senior civil servants, politicians, commissioners and academics and analysis of government policy and statements in order to examine desistance as a concept in rehabilitative thought. It looks at where desistance stands as a concept within rhetoric, practice and policy. It then goes on to examine the barriers to desistance being adopted more widely which includes the difficulties of approaching desistance in a target driven way. The...
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129. Incentivising Prison Visits: New research findings on the needs of children with imprisoned mothers and fathers
This paper considers the changes to the incentives and earned privileges (IEP) scheme in adult male prisons that took place in April 2013 throughout England and Wales, specifically how extra visits and family days continue to be offered as a reward for good behaviour. This is in comparison to the female estate where visiting arrangements are detached from the IEP scheme, due to recognition that incentivising contact is incompatible with meeting the needs of imprisoned mothers and their...
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130. Children of Imprisoned Parents
This illustrated report is a summary of a study funded by the EU and the Egmont Foundation from October 2009-May 2011 and is based on findings from research conducted in Denmark, Italy, Poland and Northern Ireland. It focuses on whether services such as police and courts take children's rights into account at each stage of the criminal justice system, from arrest to release. This is achieved by looking through the eyes of the children affected, their parents, police officers, prison...

131. Children of Imprisoned Parents, European Perspectives on Good Practice
Designed for pan-European professionals, volunteers and decision makers, this is a comprehensive illustrated and updated version of a publication which features initiatives, expertise and good practice examples of direct and indirect work with the children of imprisoned parents. The publication is a children's rights centered publication based on the research project, Children Of Imprisoned Parents. It showcases pan-European practice examples throughout the 7 key sections which are...

132. Children of Prisoners
This issue of Law in Context focuses on children whose parents are imprisoned, and includes papers drawn from a range of disciplines and comprising a combination of research findings and practice reflections. The papers address complementary areas and topics including: care planning for children whose primary carers are incarcerated; research ethics around this invisible and vulnerable group; the role of schools in supporting children and families of prisoners; sentencing and human rights...
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