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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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91. Parental imprisonment: Effects on boys' anti social behaviour and delinquency through the life-course

You will need access to Wiley Online to access the full report. This piece of research is another which utilises the large scale longitudinal Cambridge study in delinquent development. It compares boys under 10 who were separated from their fathers by imprisonment with those separated by prison before their birth by hospitalisation or death, disharmony in the family, and with those that were not separated from their fathers. The findings show that separation due to imprisonment was much...

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92. The familial transmission of criminal convictions

You will need a Wiley Online Library log in to access the full article. This peer-reviewed study utilises the Cambridge study in delinquent development to look at whether criminal convictions are transmitted between people within families. The research found that this was very much the case, especially between parents and children. Conviction transmission also occurs between siblings but particularly in same sex siblings. Statistical tests showed that parental offending was transmitted...

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93. Parental incarceration, attachment and child psychopathology

You will need to become a member of Taylor & Francis Online Journals to access the full article. In this peer-reviewed article, theory and evidence around psychopathology, attachment and incarceration are reviewed. It argues that parental imprisonment can lead to the cause of psychopathology in children because insecure attachment is prevalent (because parental relationships can be severed, there can be inconsistent care giving, confused stories about the parent's whereabouts and...

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94. 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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95. 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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96. 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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