ADR UK Research Fellowship for Economics academic

Dr Markus Gehrsitz, Department of Economics, has been awarded an ADR UK Fellowship of over £150,000 for an 18-month project using administrative data to investigate the effects of offender rehabilitation policies on re-offending. 

Markus’s project is “Understanding offender rehabilitation and supervision” and studies the reoffending behaviour of previously incarcerated offenders and the role of supervision in offender rehabilitation. 

Markus is one of just two research fellows being funded by ADR UK to conduct policy-relevant research using the Data First: Cross-Justice System dataset, a groundbreaking resource that links Ministry of Justice data from the civil and family courts with criminal justice system data. This forms part of ADR UK’s latest fellowship opportunity which invited applications to carry out research using eligible flagship datasets. 

This dataset contains de-identified data on an individual person- and case- level, from the start of criminal prosecutions in the magistrates’ courts and Crown Court, through to periods spent in prison custody or under supervision of the Probation Service. This data is now linkable to information on adults and children involved in family court cases dealing with child arrangements, divorce, or adoption, as well as people (and companies) involved in civil cases, for example, in relation to housing or debt, as claimants or defendants. 

The Data First: Cross-Justice System dataset therefore offers a unique opportunity to explore how people experience and interact across different justice jurisdictions, from criminal prosecutions to family court cases. These can provide insights into research questions that have not been possible before, such as to what extent people involved in the criminal justice system are also dealing with cases in the civil and family courts. 

Published: 14 November 2024