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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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7. The cycle of punishment- Social exclusion of prisoners and their children

You will need to become a member of Sage Publications to access the full article. Research suggests that Prisoner's Children are at risk of poor outcomes for the duration of their lives but there is barely any information regarding how many children of prisoners there are, where they are or who is looking after them. Using a survey of 147 english prisoners, who had 191 children between them, this article depicts children's circumstances in light of their father's imprisonment....

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8. Poverty and disadvantage among prisoners' families

This study uses in depth qualitative interviews with family members to look into the impacts a custodial sentence has on families and how they respond to financial, emotional and social challenges. The study also conducts an evaluation on support services for families of prisoners. The report summarises that disadvantage associated with imprisonment included high rates of depression, physical illness and housing disruption. There are also key findings around financial instability, barriers...

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9. Out for Good: taking responsibility for resettlement

This applied study looks at enabling prisoners to take responsibility for their own resettlement as a way of decreasing the high rates of re-conviction and aims to decipher what effective resettlement is. Discussion groups and interviews were conducted in nine prisons with prisoners, voluntary sector staff and the prison service. This study also draws on the Prisoner's Education Trust's Inside Time survey about prisoners' plans for resettlement. Findings show a positive impact...

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10. Saturday Morning at the Jail: Implications of Incarceration for Families and Children

You will need to become a member of Wiley Online Library to access the full article or request it for free from the authors via Researchgate. This article is about research conducted in the USA. It notes that there is little known about the experiences of families affected by imprisonment despite there being millions of children who have a parent in prison worldwide. There were 56 interviews conducted with caregivers who were visiting a family member in prison during children's...

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11. Intergenerational transmission of criminal behaviour: Conviction trajectories of fathers and their children

This peer reviewed article investigates father and child criminal careers using statistical methodology that compares groups over time. It shows that children of random and chronic offenders have a notably higher conviction rate than children whose fathers do not offend. However, in contradictions to projections from intergenerational theories and studies, which look at the underlying reasons for offending, fathers who offended chronically did not have more chronically offending children...

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12. The impact of timing and frequency of parental criminal behaviour and risk factors on offspring offending

This peer reviewed article looks, quantitatively, at the ways the transmission of criminal behaviour occurs by exploring specific times and frequencies of criminal behaviour as well as risk factors. It explains that the lack of crime related risk factors for children whose parents have never been convicted, means they are much less likely to have convictions themselves than children whose parents had convictions before they were even born. Further, it notes that when their parents are...

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