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Despite Scotland experiencing a substantial decline in crime over the past two decades, not everyone has benefited equally. Our policy brief details a recent study on how victimisation has changed across different socio-demographic groups and highlights persistent inequalities that remain hidden within overall crime statistics.
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We're pleased to share ADR UK's Annual Report for 2025 - 2026. This year has seen a significant milestone for ADR UK as we enter our new five-year funding period to March 2031.
Previous research has shown that people released from prison face an elevated risk of drug-related death, particularly in the weeks immediately following release. However, it remains unclear whether criminal justice contact itself independently predicts mortality among people in drug treatment, or whether justice involvement reflects broader patterns of social disadvantage, health inequalities and more complex drug use histories. Linked administrative data provides a unique opportunity to investigate these relationships across an entire national cohort.
Read a policy briefing on research that explored how different types of attendance (persistent, authorised and unauthorised) are shaped by a range of factors that impact secondary school pupils including social, economic, health and wellbeing circumstances.
Evidence from a national cohort of 3.7 million adults using linked administrative data
ADR Scotland in collaboration with ONS, have linked the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Register to Census 2021 for England and Wales.
This resource links a near-complete professional register with census measures of...
The first of its kind in the UK, a recent study assessed whether different types of household poverty (and the duration of those experiences) predicts youth offending by age 12 and age 14.
Is insufficient sunlight exposure an under-recognised risk factor for cardiovascular disease mortality in Scotland? An analysis of the Scottish Historical Population Platform (1880-1973)
This Data Insight by Dr Silvia Behrens analyses data relating to school absence among secondary school pupils in Scotland.
This Data Insight by Dr Michelle Jamieson analyses data relating to nurses and midwives and others of similar social grade.
