Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Commissioned report
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Commissioned report
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TY - BOOK
T1 - The Police National Computer and the Offenders Index
T2 - can they be combined for research purposes?
AU - Francis, Brian
AU - Crosland, Paul
AU - Harman, Juliet
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - The current standard research tool used in studying patterns of offending and reconviction in England and Wales is the Offenders Index. It has been suggested that a ‘complete criminal record’ should be created using information from the police, the courts, the prison service and the probation service (Allnutt, 2001). This study investigates the feasibility of merging relevant police records held on the Police National Computer into extracts from the Offenders Index in order to maximise the information available to researchers. However, external researchers are not given access to individual data as they are made anonymous.
AB - The current standard research tool used in studying patterns of offending and reconviction in England and Wales is the Offenders Index. It has been suggested that a ‘complete criminal record’ should be created using information from the police, the courts, the prison service and the probation service (Allnutt, 2001). This study investigates the feasibility of merging relevant police records held on the Police National Computer into extracts from the Offenders Index in order to maximise the information available to researchers. However, external researchers are not given access to individual data as they are made anonymous.
M3 - Commissioned report
T3 - Home Office Research Findings
BT - The Police National Computer and the Offenders Index
PB - Home Office
ER -