A bolder cost-benefit approach to capture the contribution of the voluntary sector in criminal justice
Clinks evidence review
In this evidence review, Dr Mary Corcoran, Reader and Director of Postgraduate programmes in Criminology at Keele University, provides an in-depth look at the rationale and uses of cost benefit analysis (CBA). She examines the use of this analysis in a number of different contexts, all of them particularly relevant to voluntary sector organisations working in the criminal justice system.
She covers a number of key issues:
- Calculating the costs and benefits of entering a procurement competition such as Transforming Rehabilitation
- Ensuring that all groups, particularly those with protected characteristics, are included in new markets
- The importance of robust information to base CBAs on
- The value of including ‘soft’ outcomes as well as headline issues such as reoffending rates
- The complexity of CBAs and the risks they involve
- Ensuring that commercial considerations do not warp your charity’s primary goals
- Principles of CBAs for the voluntary sector
- Ensuring that the work of the voluntary sector in the criminal justice system is not reduced to a simple consideration of value for money.
An online evidence base for the voluntary sector
This article forms part of a series from Clinks, created to develop a far-reaching and accessible evidence base covering the most common types of activity undertaken within the criminal justice system. Each article has been written by a leading academic with particular expertise on the topic in question. To find out more, read this blog by Russell Webster who's co-ordinating the work on behalf of Clinks.
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