Why do juveniles commit crime? New Evidence from England's linked administrative data

青少年为什么会犯罪？

• 批准号: ES/V01742X/1
• 负责人: Matteo Sandi
• 金额: $ 19万
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV01742X%2F1
• 关键词: Why; do; juveniles; commit; crime

Youth violence has been widely discussed recently in the UK. Recent estimates from the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that fatal stabbings and youth violence have hit a record high in England and Wales since the Home Office Homicide Index began in 1946. However, the origins, motivations and dynamics of youth crime are not well understood. Advancing our understanding of youth crime in the UK and offering coherent policy advice based on a robust evidence base is a priority for research, policy and policing. This research project brings together academics from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and it applies analytical methods to the linked dataset from the UK Department for Education (DfE) and the UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ). This extremely rich dataset enables linking of criminal records of juveniles with information on their educational trajectory on a national scale, providing the rare opportunity to advance our understanding of youth violence and help the design of informed policing and policy responses. By partnering and using interactively the extremely rich information contained in the linked DfE-MoJ dataset, the LSE and GMP teams aim to make a significant advancement to the current understanding of the origins and dynamics of youth crime, and to help translate the findings of this research into concrete evidence-based policy and policing practices that can help prevent youth crime in GMP and other UK police forces. The benefit provided by this research relates directly to the core mission of the Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK), and we wish to apply to the ADR UK 'Strategic Research' Invite-Only Scheme. We need funding from ADR UK to produce rigorous evidence on the root causes of youth crime and to derive policy-relevant findings. This is a research priority for the current UK Government and demand from the current UK Government to use the research for the public good is reflected by its large investment (£200 million GBPs) in the Youth Endowment Fund. Both the short- and long-term causes of youth crime will be studied, including the educational experience of pupils, the length of exposure to compulsory schooling, and exposure to schooling programmes aimed at boosting human capital such as the Literacy and Numeracy Hour programmes. The methodological details of these research projects are provided in the Case for Support attached to this application.By partnering with CEP (LSE), GMP wants to adopt a bold, innovative approach to tackle youth crime over the long term. While part of our analysis investigates policies from the early 2000s, we would like to analyse these to learn from the past and derive policing prescriptions for today. We will frequently exchange knowledge and we will advance a sustainable partnership, thus ensuring the use of the linked DfE-MoJ administrative dataset is maximised. We will involve analysts from GMP, ADR UK, DfE, Home Office and MoJ since the early stages of research creation, and we are willing to collaborate with ADR UK to modify our research effort and working practices in order to best suit the ADR UK's needs and priorities. The familiarity of GMP with the dynamics of youth crime in the UK and the analytical capacity of the LSE team will allow us to exploit the full potential of the linked DfE-MoJ dataset, advance our knowledge and understanding of the roots of youth crime, and enable vital research that has the potential to improve policing services in a sustainable manner. We will disseminate our findings to other UK Police Forces as widely as possible, as we expect the lessons learnt from this collaboration to apply also to other settings in the UK and provide guidance in deciding on policing responses to youth violence also elsewhere, thus ultimately ensuring the societal impact of this research.

青年暴力问题最近在英国引起了广泛讨论。英国国家统计局（ONS）最近的估计显示，自1946年内政部凶杀指数开始以来，英格兰和威尔士的致命刺伤和青年暴力事件创下历史新高。然而，人们对青年犯罪的起源、动机和动态并不十分了解。推进我们对英国青少年犯罪的理解，并在强大的证据基础上提供连贯的政策建议，是研究，政策和警务的优先事项。该研究项目汇集了来自伦敦经济学院（LSE）经济绩效中心（CEP）和大曼彻斯特警察局（GMP）的学者，并将分析方法应用于英国教育部（DfE）和英国司法部（MoJ）的相关数据集。这一极其丰富的数据集使青少年的犯罪记录能够与全国范围内有关其教育轨迹的信息联系起来，为增进我们对青少年暴力的理解提供了难得的机会，并有助于设计知情的警务和政策应对措施。通过合作和交互式使用链接的DfE-MoJ数据集中包含的极其丰富的信息，LSE和GMP团队的目标是对当前对青年犯罪的起源和动态的理解做出重大进展，并帮助将这项研究的结果转化为具体的循证政策和警务实践，有助于防止GMP和其他英国警察部队的青年犯罪。这项研究提供的好处直接关系到英国行政数据研究（ADR UK）的核心使命，我们希望申请ADR UK“战略研究”邀请计划。我们需要ADR UK提供资金，以提供关于青少年犯罪根源的严格证据，并得出与政策相关的调查结果。这是当前英国政府的研究优先事项，当前英国政府将研究用于公共利益的需求反映在其大量投资上（2亿英镑）的青年捐赠基金。将研究青年犯罪的短期和长期原因，包括学生的教育经历，接受义务教育的时间长短，以及参与旨在提高人力资本的教育方案，如识字和算术小时方案。通过与CEP（LSE）合作，GMP希望采用大胆、创新的方法来长期解决青少年犯罪问题。虽然我们的部分分析调查了21世纪初的政策，但我们希望分析这些政策，以吸取过去的经验，并为今天的警务处方提供借鉴。我们将经常交流知识，并将推进可持续的伙伴关系，从而确保最大限度地利用链接的DfE-MoJ行政数据集。我们将从研究创建的早期阶段开始，让GMP、ADR UK、DfE、内政部和司法部的分析师参与进来，我们愿意与ADR UK合作，修改我们的研究工作和工作实践，以最好地满足ADR UK的需求和优先事项。GMP对英国青少年犯罪动态的熟悉程度以及LSE团队的分析能力将使我们能够充分利用相关DfE-MoJ数据集的潜力，提高我们对青少年犯罪根源的认识和理解，并使重要的研究能够以可持续的方式改善警务服务。我们将尽可能广泛地向其他英国警察部队传播我们的调查结果，因为我们希望从这次合作中吸取的经验教训也适用于英国的其他环境，并在其他地方决定对青年暴力的警务反应方面提供指导，从而最终确保这项研究的社会影响。