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The OPD Pathway Programme has created new services and treatment options for a large population of offenders. The qualitative data from this study suggests the OPD programme is having positive effects on both offenders and staff. This, and the result of the economic evaluation suggest that the use of case formulation may be a particular strength. Although a beneficial effect on proven offending behaviour was not observed statistically, this may not be indicative of Programme failure and it is too soon to definitively conclude whether the OPD Pathway is achieving its intended outcomes. It is important to note that, given the limitations to the quantitative evaluation, findings should be regarded as indicative and treated with caution. Furthermore, fully demonstrating the value of the OPD Pathway Programme will require data harmonisation across services and much longer periods of follow-up. Building trust, instilling hope, case formulation and workforce development will be key to the future success of the Pathway. Establishing trust and working in collaboration was seen as a major part of the therapeutic work by offenders and staff alike. This is borne out by other research about the Pathway and it seems likely that trust is a key mechanism underpinning therapeutic gains that can be made by offenders when they are being managed by Pathway services. HMPPS and NHS England.

This Toolkit is a direct outcome of the research project ‘Social Distancing and Reimagining City Life: Performative strategies and practices for response and recovery in and beyond lockdown’ (AH/V013734/1). Available at the Emergency Planning Society website: https://the-eps.org/toolkit/. Personal debriefing is critical to emergency planning. In this Toolkit, we introduce creative strategies that offer new methods of engaging in personal debriefing, both for individuals and to support team approaches. We start from understanding emergency planning ‘as’ performance (as explored at our EPS Huddle, 30th March 2022 and in publications) to introduce and investigate performance processes as creative, flexible, and dynamic strategies for personal debriefing. Too often, creative practice is understood through finished artworks or performances, yet many of the processes that arts practitioners use in making work offer creative, individually-nuanced ways of making sense of events or situations. The Toolkit offers a range of strategies for personal debriefing that we have developed through our work with emergency and resilience planning professionals in the UK and USA. Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of the UK Research and Innovation’s Covid-19 Rapid Response call.

AHRC-funded project Moorish maidservants on the early modern stage are almost invariably depicted as evil, lustful, and promiscuous. Arts and Humanities Research Council

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The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the policy position of HM Inspectorate of Probation. © Crown copyright 2022. You may re-use this information (excluding logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence. This report was kindly produced by Dr Louise Forde, examining international children’s rights and how they can be adequately realised for children who come into contact with the youth justice system. While there is no ‘silver bullet’ to developing a rights-compliant system, five key criteria are set out, encompassing children’s reintegration, dignity and wellbeing, a prioritisation of diversion, the incorporation of legal safeguards, and a focus upon implementation and operation. A polarisation of considerations relating to welfare or justice is seen as unhelpful; to secure and uphold children’s rights, there needs to be protection for both (i) children’s legal and procedural rights and (ii) their wellbeing and developmental needs. More generally, explicit commitment to realising children’s rights is required. Within the inspectorate, we will continue to review the alignment of our inspection frameworks to international standards and the latest evidence underpinning high-quality services. Dr Robin Moore Head of Research 10.13039/501100002081 Irish Research Council, “Welfare” and “justice” in Irish youth justice: Punishing children or meeting their needs?

Copyright © 2022 The Author. Using a difference-in-differences framework, I examine the impact of the 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act on underwriter network centrality as measured by Degree, Betweenness, Closeness, and Eigenvector. The Act has resulted in greater information asymmetry which suggests a greater role for underwriter centrality. However, the desire to avoid collaboration coupled with greater efficiency in underwriter hiring after the Act point to a reduced role for underwriter centrality. Which effect dominates? Using a sample of US IPOs from 2001 to 2019 I find that Degree, Closeness, and Eigenvector have reduced for emerging growth companies (EGCs) following the Act. However, there is no impact on Betweenness. My results are robust to measuring centrality over different periods and various specifications including propensity score matching. I also find that the proportion of IPO co-managers and co-manager shares relative to the entire underwriting syn dicate has reduced following the Act. Finally, my results show that, after the Act, a co-manager on the IPO is not likely to become a book manager in the first SEO.

Copyright © The authors. Overcoming Barriers to Vaccination By Empowering Citizens to Make Deliberate Choices is one of ten in-depth transatlantic reports published by The British Academy exploring COVID-19 vaccine engagement in the UK and the US. For more details, see: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-british-academy-publishes-studies-examining-covid-vaccine-engagement-in-uk-and-usa/. British Academy (COVG7210005); Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-british-academy-publishes-studies-examining-covid-vaccine-engagement-in-uk-and-usa/

Formalization of the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector has come to dominate discourse on mineral exhaustion, livelihoods, and persistence of vulnerabilities in ASM settings. Often touted as a panacea to curbing the excesses of informal mining operations, the call for the formalization of ASM operations continue unabated. In this paper, we explore how the operations and management practices in the growing formal ASM sector get formulated and (re)negotiated in practice. We develop our contribution in the context of a formalised small-scale mining operator in Ghana, focusing on its organizing practices and operational outcomes within the contingencies of organizing to explicate how livelihoods and vulnerabilities persisting in ASM settings gets identified and labelled in practice. Data for our inquiry comes from ethnographic interviews with management and staff. Our findings in emphasizing, but also nuancing, what has come to be known as the ‘mineral-exhaustion-vulnerabilities’, provides insights into how the organizing practices induced by formalization cohere to support socio-economic and environmental mitigation efforts. We note that the persistence of vulnerabilities, rather than the lack of mitigation mechanisms, is largely influenced by profligacy and the incipient lack of investment culture. We conclude by highlighting the need for sustainability mechanisms, based on exit strategies for ASM operators, to tie in with comprehensive policies and lessons on income diversification and investment.

Funded by the British Academy, this report is part of a research project entitled “Mapping and visualising intersections of social inequalities, community mistrust, and vaccine hesitancy in online and physical spaces in the UK and US”. The report investigates social, cultural, and political factors underlying vaccine hesitant beliefs and ideas among minoritised communities in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (US). The data is collected through interviews and focus groups with vaccine-hesitant individuals within various religiously, ethnically, and racially minoritised communities, interviews with medical practitioners, and through thematic analysis of vaccine communication in Twitter and Telegram during the COVID-19 pandemic.