Research: Insight 29 – Prison leavers and homelessness
The Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS) have announced the release of number 29 in their series of IRISS Insights, Prison leavers and homelessness.
This evidence summary examines the relationship between homelessness and offending, the impact of prison, key challenges and messages for practice.
This Insight forms part of the IRISS Homelessness: pathways and prevention project which ran throughout 2014/15. Building on the learning from this, the next phase of the project (2015/16) will focus on the value of peer-led and volunteer interventions. IRISS now want to look at the evidence around this topic including the role of lived experience.
If you would like to work on this project you are encouraged complete a short survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6Q26KXW
Related Resources
- Homelessness: sustainability (podcast on IRISS.FM)
- Homelessness: transitions (podcast on IRISS.FM)
- How and why people stop offending: Discovering desistance (IRISS Insight 15)
- Crime and justice research collection
- The Road from Crime (film)