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The British Journal of Criminology 37:568-581 (1997)
© 1997 Centre for Crime & Justice Studies (formerly ISTD)

RESEARCH-ARTICLE

THE IMPACT OF ILDERTON MOTOR PROJECT ON MOTOR VEHICLE CRIME AND OFFENDING

JOHN WILKINSON*

*Quality and Research Manager, Turning Point. This paper is based on research carried out while the author was employed as Research Officer for Inner London Probation Service. Some of die main findings have been published as an Inner London Probation Service research report. The author would like to thank Peter West of Ilderton Motor Project and Deputy Chief Inspector Doug McNichol, then of the Metropolitan Police Youth Affairs Branch, for their support for the research; Stephen Stanley of Inner London Probation Service for his helpful comments on this paper and David Morgan of Inner London Probation Service for his work on the data analysis

This paper evaluates the effectiveness in reducing offending of Ilderton, one of the UK's best known probation motor projects. Research into car crime and into criminal careers is reviewed to investigate the basis for targeting specialist motor offenders. A comparison group methodology is used. The offending careers of 35 probationers who attended the project are compared with those of a matched group of 40 probationers who did not, using information about arrests. The offending careers of the two groups are similar up to the point the Ilderton group started at the project. However at one, two and three-year follow-ups, the Ilderton group had committed less crime and in particular less car crime. After two years significantly fewer of the Ilderton group had reoffended: 65 per cent compared to 91 per cent of the comparison group, an effect size of r=0.26. This is consistent with Ilderton reducing vehicle-related crime.


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