Process Evaluation of Five Integrated Offender Management Pioneer Areas (original) (raw)
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We would like to thank Richard Boorman, Chantelle Fields and Veronica Hollis at the Ministry of Justice, as well as the project steering group, for their support and guidance throughout the study. We would also like to express our gratitude to Tony Grapes, former NOMS employee and one of the authors of the NOMS Offender Management Model, for his insight at the initial stages of the project. Thanks also go to our colleagues and collaborators working on the other components of the Offender Management Community Cohort Study: Martin Wood, Tanja Sejersen and Suneeta Johal at NatCen who are responsible for the longitudinal survey of adult offenders on community orders; and Alan Mackie, Matt Hopkins and Angela Lehmann from Matrix Knowledge Group who are responsible for the administrative data. Our thanks also extend to Alexia Demetriou from NatCen who assisted with the management and analysis of the qualitative data. Finally, we are indebted to the offender management teams who participated in the research.
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