This webinar shares findings from Transform Justice’s new report ‘Resolving crime without court: lessons from practice’.
Overview
How can the police resolve more crimes effectively, without resorting to the courts?
Out of court resolutions have many benefits – for victims, for the justice system and for people who commit crime – but their use has declined in recent years. So, how can police forces reverse this trend?
Join us for a webinar to discuss findings from Transform Justice’s new report – Resolving crime without court: lessons from practice. The report details learnings from interviews with nine police forces from the top of Transform Justice’s crime resolution tracker, which ranks police forces by the proportion of out of court resolutions and outcome 22s they use versus charge.
The report recommends practical ways police forces can improve and increase their use of OOCRs, such as streamlining administration and using a wide range of creative communication strategies. The webinar will be chaired by Professor Adam Crawford, co-Director of the ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre. We’ll hear from co-authors of the report Fionnuala Ratcliffe and Ella Thomson from Transform Justice, and Detective Sergeant Clare-Louise Anstey from Sussex Police Force, who participated in the research.
This work was supported by the Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre through its Translational Fellowship programme, thanks to funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (Grant reference number: ES/W002248/1).
Speakers
- Fionnuala Ratcliffe (Transform Justice)
- Ella Thomson (Transform Justice)
- Detective Sergeant Clare-Louise Anstey (Sussex Police)
- Chair: Professor Adam Crawford