Transforming justice: the interplay of social change and policy reforms
A well-functioning justice system is fundamental to social wellbeing.
Events
IFS Economics of the Justice System Workshop - 22nd November 2024
This event featured speakers from LSE, University of Oxford, University of York, University of Exeter and the University of Bristol speaking on subjects such as violence in prisons, remote working and neighborhood crime, the impact of Sure Start on crime and economic barriers to justice in Brazil. See here for the full agenda.
Abi Adams-Prassl
Abi's research sits within Applied Microeconomics, often focused on the econometrics of consumer and family choice.
Imran Rasul
Imran is Professor of Economics at University College London and Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the IFS.
Joe Tomlinson
Joe is Professor of Public Law at the University of York.
Ben Zaranko
Ben joined the IFS in 2017 and works across a range of areas, including UK fiscal policy and the productivity of the health and social care system.
Elisa Facchetti
Elisa is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics & Finance of University of Rome Tor Vergata and a Research Associate at IFS.
Emla Fitzsimons
Emla Fitzsimons is a Professor of Economics at the University College London Institute of Education and a Research Fellow at the IFS.
Hikaru Kawarazaki
Hikaru — a PhD scholar — focuses on the long-term impacts of early childhood education and care, in addition to the peer effects of youth crimes.
Joost Sijthoff
Joost is a PhD student at UCL.
Monica Costa Dias
Monica is a Deputy Research Director and Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol, with an interest in Labour, Family and Public Economics.
Magdalena Dominguez
Magdalena is a Research Economist at the IFS. Her research focuses on issues related to the economics of crime, networks & place-based policies.
Sarah Cattan
Sarah is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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A well-functioning justice system is fundamental to social well-being, supporting an inclusive and secure society and underpinning wider trust in the state. The justice system in England and Wales has been changed dramatically over the last decade through large-scale reductions in funding and a sequence of major procedural reforms intended to modernise the system. Despite the scale of change, and the central importance of justice to everyday social and economic life, to date there has been limited systematic economic and quantitative analyses of the impacts of these changes on access to justice, people’s pathways through the justice system, and wider effects on well-being for those experiencing the justice system. This project will address these knowledge gaps using research drawn primarily from the administrative datasets curated through the Ministry of Justice’s ‘Data First’ programme, funded by ADR-UK. The project will range across many of the system’s jurisdictions including administrative, civil, family, and criminal.
