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Research Projects on Crime and Justice

International approaches to measuring police performance
RAND Europe, commissioned by the Dutch government’s Research and Documentation Centre, at the request of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, conducted a review of international approaches to police performance measurement.
21 Nov 2023
Drug Strategy Investment in Treatment And Recovery (D-SITAR) Evaluation
RAND Europe is evaluating the first three years of the 'From Harm to Hope' drug strategy treatment and recovery portfolio in England.
07 Nov 2023
Analysis of non-profit models of cannabis regulation
The Swiss Federal Office for Public Health commissioned RAND Europe to provide an overview of non-commercial regulation models for cannabis.
01 Nov 2023
Tackling Drug Use in Prisons
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and His Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service jointly commissioned RAND Europe to conduct a research study to examine and evaluate how drug testing regimens and incentivised substance free living wings are implemented in prisons in England and Wales.
02 Oct 2023
Feasibility Study for a What Works Centre for Safety
Achieving impact from evidence centres is feasible, but active engagement with stakeholders throughout the process is central, as is recognition that decisions on policy and practice are complex processes where evidence is important but not the sole factor.
11 Sep 2023
A night-time lighting analysis of Tibet’s prisons and detention centres
This study builds on the scant available evidence and leverages an innovative method – night-time lighting data – to shed light on the prisons and detention facilities in Tibet.
27 Jul 2023
Evaluating the closed coffeeshop chain cannabis experiment in the Netherlands
Researchers examined the possible effects of an experiment to cultivate and deliver quality-controlled cannabis through a closed supply chain for coffeeshops in the Netherlands.
31 May 2023
Strengthening the Fight against Serious and Organised Crime in the EU
RAND Europe examined three topics that could be considered ‘tools’ that member states can deploy in the fight against organised crime, in line with the aims of the 2021–2025 EU Strategy to Tackle Organised Crime.
04 Apr 2023
A quantitative analysis of the costs of corruption in the EU
EU action to support member states' fight to reduce corruption could generate considerable financial savings and improvements to societal wellbeing.
24 Feb 2023
Examining the use of Out of Court Disposals for adults with health vulnerabilities
RAND Europe, in partnership with Get the Data and Skills for Justice, has been commissioned by the Ministry of Justice to conduct a study on how police in England and Wales use Out of Court Disposals (OOCDs) to support adults with health-related vulnerabilities.
13 Feb 2023
Study to support an evaluation of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL)
CEPOL is the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training – an agency of the European Union dedicated to training law enforcement officials that is based in Budapest, Hungary. RAND Europe and Ernst & Young (EY) assessed the effectiveness, efficiency, relevance, coherence and EU-added value of CEPOL and its working practices.
08 Feb 2023
Preventive approaches to organised crime in the Netherlands
Preventive methods to fight organised crime focus on addressing the underlying causes and factors. Researchers found that preventive instruments tend to focus on situational prevention, and that there is little robust evidence on the effectiveness of these instruments in the field of organised crime.
31 Jan 2023
Trafficking human beings in the European Union
At the request of the European Commission and to inform proposals to revise EU legislation, RAND Europe is evaluating the 2011 EU directive on preventing human trafficking and outlining the priority areas for improvement.
27 Jan 2023
Examining corruption at two of Europe's gateways
Researchers are examining corruption in relation to subversive crime at Schiphol Airport and the Port of Rotterdam, two facilities in the Netherlands that form a gateway to the European market.
21 Jul 2022
New insights into the medical use of cannabis
Researchers are examining the latest developments and available evidence concerning the medical use of cannabis and cannabinoids for the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.
17 May 2022
Smoke-free environments and the advertising of tobacco and related products
Although EU member states are generally compliant with national rules on smoke-free environments and tobacco-related advertising, some areas require closer scrutiny, including protecting children from the harms of smoking.
04 Jan 2022
Comparing criminal history information systems in the United States and other nations
There is considerable variation among the criminal-history information systems of Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States regarding how they approach the collection, management, and uses of criminal-history information through their national information systems.
24 Sep 2021
Identifying an approach to measure the illicit market for tobacco
To capture the total volume of the illicit tobacco trade in the EU and member states, as well as distinguish between the legal and illegal market, types of tobacco products, and types of illicit trade, researchers propose a combination of five methods and three cross-validating resources.
11 May 2021
Liaison and Diversion services save money through reduced sentencing
An evaluation of NHS England's Liaison and Diversion programme found that it successfully engages people with a broad range of vulnerabilities and halves their likelihood of receiving a custodial sentence.
12 Apr 2021
Assessing the economic value of illicit markets in the EU
The aggregate annual revenues of the nine main criminal markets in the EU ranged from €92 to €188 billion in 2019, according to research that examined the scale, actors, modus operandi and trends in these markets.
22 Mar 2021

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