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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. Parental imprisonment: Long-lasting effects on boys' internalising problems through the life course

Qualitative studies indicate that children develop externalising and internalising behaviours as a reaction to their parents' imprisonment. This peer reviewed study is the first to look at the long term affects of parental imprisonment on boys' internalisation of problems by using comparison groups and standardised tests. Longitudinal data from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, is used to compare boys' who were separated from their parents due to imprisonment in...

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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. Bromley Briefings Prison Factfile

This is a comprehensive fact file which provides statistics and examples from various pieces of research, policy and press around many aspects of prisons and imprisonment in the UK. There is a section dedicated to children of imprisoned parents, and mothers and fathers in prison. See Bromley Briefings Prison Factifile Autumn 2016 (full version) and Prison: the facts (Summer 2016) below for a summary:

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12. Effects of parental imprisonment on child antisocial behaviour and mental health: a systematic review

This research looks at whether parental imprisonment causes children to develop poor mental health and antisocial behaviour, and whether certain characteristics (of children, prison, parents and wider social and penal settings) have effects on the relationship between the two. The researchers looked at 16 previous studies which compared children with and without parents in prison, but who had mental health outcomes. The studies chosen were either representative of the general population of...

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