We are a proud contributor to this book which examines the use of sport and physical activity-based interventions as a means by which to address crime and antisocial behaviour.

The Get Well, Stay Well Agreement launched in Dec 2022 as a framework to increase collaboration, health promotion and the use of physical activity and sport across the welfare and justice systems.

A co-designed regional Theory of Change sits at the heart of SYCP - aligning partners, guiding investment, and ensuring sport effectively prevents youth crime.

In April 2025, the University of Birmingham published its final evaluation of the Levelling the Playing Field Project, which was overseen by the Alliance of Sport and partners between 2020 and 2023.

This report is a must-read for anyone working with or supporting young people and looking to create more inclusive and equitable systems.

This preliminary copy of the report follows a period of research undertaken by AoS looking at how sport is being used to prevent youth crime and build a more resilient ASEAN.

Read this academic exploration of our co-designed Theory of Change underpinning the role of sport in the desistance from crime.

This 2014 paper comprises a small-scale, qualitative study of one such intervention in a Young Offender Institution (YOI) in the South of England.

The Alliance of Sport was instrumental in producing evidence for a new book detailing the impact of Covid-19 on sport across the world. 

The Alliance of Sport’s sector wide Theory of Change (ToC) has been analysed by experts in the field of sport and criminal justice to open it up to academic critique and debate

New research on how to form effective partnerships in sport and criminal justice has been published by Dr Haydn Morgan and Dr Colin Baker from the University of Gloucestershire.

A Unicef UK report examining youth justice issues which offers a series of recommended changes to ensure rights of children in contact with the law are properly protected and upheld.