Centre for Adolescent Rehabilitation (C-FAR)
(Oct 2002)
£200,000 (Grant split between RCP £40,000 and the Esmée Fairbairn Mainstream Social Development programme £160,000)
To pay for the costs of purchasing and developing a residential centre of excellence for the rehabilitation of young adult offenders. The RCP grant will go towards supporting work to publicise the approach, raising awareness of it, and replicating the C-Far model in other areas
www.c-far.org.uk

Centre for Crime & Justice Studies
(April 2002)
£77,500 over two years
To pay for the costs of developing and maintaining an accessible, easy to navigate and attractive, public information criminal justice website. It will provide factual and interactive learning material for those outside of the criminal justice field, such as schoolchildren, teachers, students and journalists. It will also act as a useful resource for voluntary and statutory agencies. An advisory group consisting of a collaboration of criminal justice organisations will be established to monitor content and direction.
www.crimeinfo.org.uk
www.kcl.ac.uk/ccjs

The Children's Rights Alliance for England (CRAE)
(Sep 2001)
£25,000
To pay for production and dissemination of an accessible compilation report on the treatment and care of young offenders in England. The value of the work lies in compiling and disseminating in an innovative way information about how children are treated when locked up. It will fill an important gap in respect of a specific group of offenders - children and young people.

The report was published in November 2002. Further details can be found at the CRAE website, and the report is available as a pdf download.
www.crae.org.uk

The Churches Criminal Justice Forum (CCJF)
(Sep 2001)
£85,000 (over two years)
To pay for a criminal justice worker to stimulate awareness of and commitment to restorative justice across the Christian denominations. CCJF is a network of Christian denominations and organisations concerned with criminal justice issues. It is registered as a network of the umbrella ecumenical body Churches Together in Britain and Ireland and has authority to speak for the churches on criminal justice.
www.ccjf.org.uk

Common Purpose UK
(April 2002)
£50,000 (over 2 years)
To pay for a Project Director to help educate and inform local opinion leaders about crime and punishment. Common Purpose runs programmes in 60 areas, which bring together leaders from the community, public and private sectors to study a range of issues and stimulate opportunities for civic action. The work will improve public understanding and knowledge about the criminal justice system, and stimulate wider debate via a series of web-based discussion and interaction with the public and national figures in the field.
www.commonpurpose.org.uk

Drugscope
(Jan 2002)
£95,600 (over two years)
To pay for a campaign to change public attitudes to women in prison. The aim of the campaign called 'Using Women' will be to increase public awareness of the high proportion (almost 50%) of women in prison who have been sentenced for drug offences and to highlight the availability and effectiveness of alternatives to custody such as drug treatment and testing orders. The project will get the voices of individual women in prison heard and their stories told to the widest possible audience. It will be launched in June 2003.
http://usingwomen.org.uk/drugscope/
www.drugscope.org.uk

Fawcett Society
(February 2003)
£40,000
To pay for the evidence gathering and dissemination costs of a Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice System. The commission aims to raise awareness among the general public of women's experience and gender issues within the criminal justice system, and to give women a voice. The commission hopes to help influence policy experts and legislation to take gender into account in decision making, and to challenge gender inequalities.
www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/Campaign_Criminal.htm

Henley Management College, Centre for Organisation Reputation and Relationships (CORR)
(Nov 2001)
£51,100
To pay for research into how the reputation of two alternatives to prison can be improved with sentencers and the broader public. Using a unique analytical framework called ‘narrative analysis', the project will assess what ‘stories' underpin the reputation of probation, community service and other forms of community penalty. The project will then work with the services providing those penalties to help them improve the way in which they are perceived.
www.henleymc.ac.uk

Inside Out Trust
(Oct 2002)
£70,336 (over 18 months)
To pay for the costs of a community involvement programme 'Employment Inside and Out'', in 12 prisons. The aim of which will be to get members of the community to see the realities of prison for themselves. Monthly events will be arranged in different prisons during 2003 and 2004. Participants will hear about the realities of prison life but will also be encouraged to find ways of contributing to the resettlement and employment of prisoners on release.
www.inside-out.org.uk

Institute for the Study of Civil Society (CIVITAS)
(Oct 2002)
£28,500
To pay for a one-year research project on offender rehabilitation. The aim of this project is to discover the most successful way of reducing re-offending by convicted criminals, looking at evidence from the UK and US. They would like to encourage a more evidence based debate about re-offending, examining the most efficient use of custodial and community sentences.
www.civitas.org.uk

JUSTICE
(Sep 2001)
£122,000 (over two years)
To pay for a major Inquiry into Restorative Justice. The Inquiry will consider what scope there is for restorative justice (RJ) to play a greater role in the criminal justice system. There is currently much interest in RJ in the UK, particularly within the youth justice system. The Inquiry aims to raise wider awareness and stimulate public debate. It will address the issues for offenders, victims and communities, and will consider how RJ can be integrated within the criminal justice system, what it can offer and what are its limits, and will give information on the effectiveness of RJ in reducing re-offending.
www.justice.org.uk

Justice Research Consortium (JRC)
(June 2002)
£63,750
To pay for a programme to involve opinion formers and policymakers as observers in restorative justice (RJ) conferences. The conferences bring together victims and offenders with a mediator and enable the victim to express their feelings and the offender to express remorse. The majority of the conferences will be held in prison, where the offenders are held on remand. It is hoped that the work will promote and ensure a good deal of support for the widespread implementation of RJ practices. JRC is a consortium of eight partners undertaking action research into RJ in three police force areas in the UK.
www.sas.upenn.edu/jerrylee/jrc

The Magistrates' Association
(Sep 2001)
£25,000
To pay for developmental work for a 'Local Crime, Community Sentence' programme. The Magistrates Association wants, in conjunction with the Probation Boards Association, to develop a new initiative aimed at increasing knowledge of, and confidence in, community penalties such as probation and community service. Teams of magistrates and probation officers will be trained to deliver presentations to the public about how benches reach a decision about whether to send an offender to prison or not and what happens when an offender is sentenced to a community penalty. When fully rolled out, the target is to reach 30,000 people per year.
www.lccs.org.uk
www.magistrates-association.org.uk

National Probation Service for England & Wales, Staffordshire Area
(June 2002)
£13,667
To pay for the set up phase of a case study project which develops case studies of ex offenders for national and regional outlets. The aim being to establish a properly resourced and organised system for identifying, recruiting and supporting suitable case studies and for making the individuals available to responsive media.
www.staffordshireprobation.org.uk
www.probationtraining-midlandsconsortium.org.uk

Nottingham Trent University
(April 2002)
£80,000 (Grant split equally between RCP and the Esmée Fairbairn Mainstream Education programme)
To pay for research to examine public and professional attitudes towards the role of education in relation to crime and the punishment of young offenders. The work will help to highlight what teachers, other educational staff, magistrates and the general public think about the role of education in dealing with young offenders and how it can best be carried out. The work will serve to raise awareness about the issues and educational needs of young people in custody, identify existing gaps in resources and make recommendations for action which would have a positive impact on the education of young offenders.

Payback
(June 2002)
£39,864
To pay for the continuation of Payback's broadcast development work to encourage relations between broadcasters and the criminal justice sector. Part of the work will be undertaken in partnership with the Media Trust. The work aims to develop relationships and two way information initiatives with broadcasters. It will also provide training and practical resources for criminal justice organisations to enable them to work more effectively with the media. Since the closure of Payback at the end of 2002, the broadcast work is continuing through a new charity, Bright.

Prison Advice & Care Trust (formerly the Bourne Trust)
(June 2002)
£17,851
To pay for the costs of producing and distributing a 'Prisoners' Sunday Parish' resource pack for the second year running, for wider distribution to Anglican and Catholic Parishes in England and Wales. The packs will contain information about the criminal justice system and volunteering opportunities, and will help to raise awareness of the needs of prisoners and their families.
www.prisonadvice.org.uk

The Prison Reform Trust and South Bank University
(Sep 2001)
£40,500
To pay for research into sentencing decisions by magistrates and judges. Many offenders receive short prison sentences. Remarkably little is known about the reasons magistrates and judges sentence offenders to prison and what alternative options they think would reduce the need to pass such sentences. This work will result in proposals that would encourage the greater availability of community sentences.

The 'Decision to Imprison' report conducted by Professor Mike Hough and colleagues at South Bank University and published by the Prison Reform Trust was launched on 1st July 2003. A pdf copy of the report can be downloaded from the PRT website.

www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk

Prison Reform Trust
(Jan 2002)
£27,000
To pay for the dissemination of the findings of the research project 'Use of Custody and Other Sentences'. The Prison Reform Trust and South Bank University are funded by RCP to undertake research into sentencing decisions by magistrates and judges. It is hoped that disseminating the results and producing proposals will lead to greater availability of community sentences. The dissemination is to focus significantly on those directly involved in changing policy and practice such as the Government, sentencers and the criminal justice sector.
www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk

Prison Reform Trust
(Oct 2002)
£72,000 (over two years)
To pay for the costs of a project 'From Rhetoric to Reality', which will provide opportunities for prisoners and their families to contribute to the public debate on crime and punishment, provide detailed information on local prisons, local alternatives to custody and inform debate at national regional and local level.
www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk

Restorative Justice Consortium (RJC)
(Nov 2001)
£92,246 (over two years)
To pay for a range of activities to raise the level of debate about criminal justice among targetted groups. The RJC is an umbrella organisation that aims to promote the values of restorative justice across the UK. The initial targets, identified jointly with Rethinking Crime & Punishment, will be members of parliament, trade unions and professional bodies and local voluntary organisations. RJC want to disseminate key facts and information about crime and the criminal justice system through regular meetings with key individuals and groups, contributions to seminars and conferences, and articles in magazines and journals.
www.restorativejustice.org.uk

Revolving Doors Agency
(Oct 2002)
£54,264 (over 18 months)
To pay for the cost of establishing a new Policy and Communications Unit, to help raise the profile of those with mental health problems in contact with the criminal justice sector. The Unit will help to bring to attention the level of vulnerability of mentally disordered offenders and the fact that they end up in the criminal justice system. It will aim to disseminate good practice in this area, explore ways of accessing better services for this group, and influence government policy
www.revolving-doors.co.uk

Safeguarding Communities, Reducing Offending In Scotland (SACRO)
(June 2002)
£100,000 (over two years)
To pay for a public information and education campaign, to improve knowledge of community penalties and restorative justice in Scotland. SACRO will use a variety of methods to disseminate evidence about the use of imprisonment, alternatives available, and their effectiveness. The target audience will be policymakers, sentencers, and the public.
www.sacro.org.uk

Scottish Consortium on Crime & Criminal Justice (SCC&CJ)
(June 2002)
£36,500
To pay for the costs of an investigation of judicial reactions to options for sentencing reform. The project will examine sentencers' views on options to redirect sentencing policy in Scotland, to maximise the use of community sanctions compatible with public safety. SCC&CJ is a consortium of leading criminal justice organisations in Scotland. The work builds upon a recent report 'Rethinking Criminal Justice in Scotland', which recommends a rapid increase in the use of community sanctions and decrease in the use of custody. Outcomes and policy proposals from this work will be disseminated widely to policy makers, sentencers and other criminal justice practitioners.
www.scccj.org.uk

SHAPE
(June 2002)
£152,000 (over two years)
To pay a Co-ordinator, Campaigns Officer and Administrator to run a public awareness campaign called 'SHAPE: children's lives & the youth crime debate'' about policy and practice with young offenders. The campaign is based on a partnership of five charities; the NSPCC, Barnardo's, NCH, NCB, the Children's Society, plus NACRO. The aim being to raise the level of debate about child crime by informing a variety of audiences that young offenders are children whose problem behaviour can be addressed more effectively and appropriately through education, health and social welfare measures than through punishment.
www.shapethedebate.org.uk

Thames Valley Partnership
(April 2002)
£50,000 (over two years)
To pay for the costs of developing a 'Creating Confidence in Justice'. The project will promote restorative justice work in prisons and encourage more communication between criminal justice agencies and the public to generate informed debate. The objectives of the work will be to test and strengthen links between communities, voluntary organisations and victims in prisons. It will promote community conferences for prisoners returning to the community, and generate public and media support for offender rehabilitation.
www.thamesvalleypartnership.org.uk

University of Central England
Prison Film Project 2004
(February 2003)
£38,880
To pay for the costs of running three prison film weekends in London, Birmingham and Glasgow during 2004. The weekends will comprise screenings of prison films and pre and post screening talks. It aims to increase public understanding of issues of imprisonment and use issues portrayed in prison films to inform the current debate on punishment.
www.theprisonfilmproject.com

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