Despite 30 years of significant change to the way the criminal justice system responds to sexual violence, conviction rates have gone down in Australia, Canada, and England and Wales. This paper reflects on the limits of legal reform in improving outcomes for victim/survivors.

This UK report looks at how communities can lead meaningful change in their neighbourhoods? What approaches to stimulating and supporting community-led action work best in different areas? How can government and funders catalyse locally-led innovation in a way that achieves impact at any kind of scale? These are some of the questions that we are...

This report explores the value and relevance of libraries, and their importance in assisting researchers. This jointly commissioned report presents the findings of a systematic study of the value of the services that libraries provide to researchers, and of the contributions that libraries from a wide range of institutions make to institutional research performance.

Less than one in two UK children aged eight to 17 read a novel outside of school every month. 18,141 young people aged 8 to 17 participated in this online survey in November/December 2010. While the survey focuses on young people’s attitudes towards reading, writing, communication skills as well as technology use, this report focuses...

There is evidence that social interactions matter for charitable giving. This paper describes a model of fundraising in social groups, where private information about quality of provision is transmitted by social proximity. Individuals engage in voluntary provision of a pure collective good that is consumed by both neighbors and non-neighbors. We show that, unlike in...