Publications

National Offender Management

• Alcohol Information Pack Offenders Managers Guide
  Accompanies the offenders guide and provides information on how to use the resources, IBA and tools for offender managers to use.
• Alcohol Information Pack Offenders Guide
  Provides information on; Probation Service's role including treatment and IBA; general alcohol information including units and substance abuse; specific groups including women, mental health, young people,...
• NOMS Intervention Guidance
  The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) has developed best practice guidance for probation staff on the effective commissioning, management and delivery of a range of interventions for alcohol...
• National Probation Service Alcohol Strategy
  Working with Alcohol Misusing Offenders - a strategy for delivery This 2006 Strategy aims to: Establish a consistent approach to tackling alcohol-related offending across the Probation Service based...
• Alcohol services in prisons: an unmet need
  "The report draws on inspection surveys of 13,000 prisoners between 2004 and 2009, 72 inspection reports between 2006 and 2009, and surveys of drug coordinators in 68 prisons in 2009. The data cover...
• The supervision of community orders
  This report examines how well community orders are managed by the National Probation Service, in particular how well they have been implemented and whether they are meeting sentencing objectives.

Violence

• Alcohol and intimate partner violence: key findings from the research
  The British Crime Survey indicated that 32% of incidents of intimate partner violence were committed when the perpetrator was under the influence of alcohol (Mirrlees-Black, 1999). Offender-only drinking...
• Alcohol and sexual violence: key findings from the research
  The British Crime Survey estimates that one in ten women have been sexually victimised since age 16 (Myhill and Allen, 2002). Many perpetrators have drunk alcohol immediately prior to the incident...

Regional Reports

Yoiu can view a full range of regional alcohol publications and resources on our regional pages

• A Label for Exclusion - support for alcohol-misusing offenders
  This paper produced by the centre for mental health in collaboration with the South West region looks at how to improve the joint commissioning landscape for alcohol harm reduction in offender management....
• Case for change - Commissioning Identification and Brief Advice to improve health and justice outcomes in offender populations
  The report of a jointly commissioned project by the Regional Public Health Group London and the Ministry of Justice (London Offender Health Team) to review existing practice in provision of support for...
• A Review of Alcohol Services for Offenders in the North East Region
  North East commissioning paper covering the following: review of alcohol services for problematic drinkers in the North East region; To identify current provision for offenders within those services;...
• Evaluation of the Hertfordshire Alcohol Diversion Scheme
  Evaluation and rationale for the pilot diversion scheme providing offenders with alcohol awareness training instead of fines.