Justice Data Lab Analysis: Offending Behaviour After Housing Support from the Bail Accommodation and Support Service and a Court Sentence

This document describes an evaluation of the impact of the Bail Accommodation and Support Service (BASS) on re-offending rates, frequency, and time to first re-offence among individuals receiving housing support prior to a custodial or probationary sentence. The evaluation used statistical analysis to compare individuals who received BASS support with those who did not. Results indicate that BASS recipients may have higher re-offending rates and frequencies, with mixed findings on the time to first re-offence. The document also discusses the role of stable accommodation in reducing re-offending and the potential implications for the Offender Rehabilitation Act reforms. It includes detailed results, demographic profiles, and methodological notes on the matching of treatment and comparison groups. The document, released under various versions of the Open Government Licence, provides comprehensive data and acknowledges limitations such as the exclusion of certain individuals from the analysis. **This summary was written by an AI model and therefore should not be considered a definitive summary of the report. If you are aware of inaccuracies, please email evaluation.registry@cabinetoffice.gov.uk.**

Description

• Lead department: Ministry of Justice (MOJ)
• Evaluation stage: A complete evaluation report
• Other departments: No other departments listed
• Evaluation types: Impact evaluation
• Impact methods: Quasi-experimental method
• Quasi-experimental methods: Matching
• Grant information: This intervention is not distributing funding via a grant
• Government Major Project information: This intervention is not a major project
• Policies: No policies provided

Event Dates

• Event Name: Publication of final results
• Event date: July 2017

Evaluation Costs

• Cost: Not provided

Evaluation sharing

• Link(s) to published report(s): Yes
• Links to evaluation plans: No link provided
• Links to published evaluations (DEBUGGING): No final report link found.
• Findings: Not provided
• Permission to share confirmed: Yes