Housing and Reoffending: Supporting people who serve short-term sentences to secure and sustain stable accommodation on liberation
The research focused on the problems that people who serve short sentences in Scotland have finding and keeping stable housing and the services that can help improve housing outcomes. The findings describe a complex cycle of housing problems faced by people serving short sentences, their interlinked causes and impacts and the difficulties these problems pose in desistance from offending.
List of acronyms and abbreviations
| Acronym |
Definition |
|---|---|
| B&B |
Bed & Breakfast |
| BBA |
British Bankers’ Association |
| CAB(x) |
Citizens Advice Bureau(x) |
| CIU |
Community Integration Unit |
| CJA |
Community Justice Authority |
| CJSW |
Criminal Justice Social Work |
| CoSLA |
Convention of Scottish Local Authorities |
| CPP |
Community Planning Partnership |
| CRP |
Community Reintegration Project |
| DWP |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| G.P. |
General Practitioner |
| HDC |
Home Detention Curfew |
| HMP |
Her Majesty’s Prison |
| HMPYOI |
Her Majesty’s Prison and Young Offenders’ Institution |
| HMYOI |
Her Majesty’s Young Offenders’ Institution |
| ID |
Identification |
| NFA |
No Fixed Abode |
| NHS |
National Health Service |
| pgh |
Paragraph |
| PR2 |
The SPS national prisoner records system |
| PSP |
Public Social Partnership |
| RAG |
Research Advisory Group |
| RRCF |
Reducing Reoffending Change Fund |
| RRP2 |
Reducing Reoffending Programme Phase 2 |
| RSL |
Registered Social Landlord |
| SPS |
Scottish Prison Service |
| SWF |
Scottish Welfare Fund |
| TSO |
Throughcare Support Officer |
Contact
Email: Julie Guy
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