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Joined up justice: Understanding the links between employment, benefits and offending
Author(s) -
Wingfield Melissa,
Trenell Paul
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2014.00734.x
Subject(s) - prison , unemployment , government (linguistics) , economic justice , criminology , sociology , political science , economics , law , economic growth , linguistics , philosophy
The cycle of prison, unemployment and re‐offending dominates many lives. Strangely, data about this all‐too‐familiar scenario has been lacking: historically the information was split between three different government departments, unshared and in incompatible forms. Melissa Wingfield and Paul Trenell show how data‐sharing across government has now yielded insights into the connections between employment, benefits and offending.