We’ve created a set of interactive data visualisations

UNDERSTANDING THE OLR

Our interactive data visualisations are designed to help you understand the OLR sentence. You can see trends in areas such as risk rating, age or length of punishment part.

Digging into the Data

the Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs announced the appointment

Two New Board Members Join the RMA

We are delighted to welcome Geraldine O’Hare and James Maybee to join the RMA Board as Convener and Member to help make Scotland safer

Our work to make Scotland safer

2023-24 Business Plan Published

Areas of work include: an update to Standards and Guidelines for Risk Management, Training Strategy, and a review of the implementation of the Order for Lifelong Restriction Sentence.

GUEST BLOG: LUCY MCDONALD, Head of Scotland at SafeLives

the response to IPV in Scotland

This month we welcome Lucy McDonald from SafeLives to the RMA blog. She writes about the response to intimate partner violence (IPV) in Scotland, and how tools like SafeLives’ Domestic Abuse Awareness Raising Tool are making a difference.

Find out more about the unique sentence

WHAT IS THE ORDER FOR LIFELONG RESTRICTION?

The OLR is a true lifelong sentence. Find out more about what this means, how it’s imposed, and how an individual subject to an OLR is managed.

The agreed standards and guidelines for risk assessment and management in Scotland

Framework for Risk Assessment, Management and Evaluation (FRAME)

Our FRAME Policy outlines the agreed values, guiding principles and standards that underpin the work of criminal justice agencies in Scotland

FRAME

Discover our free resource for practictioners

Risk Assessment Tools Evaluation Directory

With details of over 70 risk assessment tools, including validity and reliability, RATED is our free tools directory designed to help you choose the right tool.

Rated

The Offending Behaviour of Those Subject to the Order for lifelong Restriction

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STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES

We produce Standards and Guidelines for the Order for Lifelong Restriction (OLR) sentence. Our Standards and Guidelines for Risk Management also support the assessment and management of individuals who present a risk of serious harm.

Standards & Guidelines

FRAMEWORK FOR RISK ASSESSMENT, MANAGEMENT AND EVALUATION

Our FRAME policy is the approach to risk assessment and management in Scotland. It outlines guiding principles that should underpin the work of justice agencies who assess and manage risk.

FRAME

DATA VISUALISATION

Explore a series of interactive data visualisations to help you understand the Order for Lifelong Restriction. We look at statistics including Risk Assessment Order outcomes, age of individuals at the time when they receive the sentence, and length of punishment part.

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