The Journal of Forensic Practice: Volume 17 Issue 3

Working in partnership: making it happen for high risk personality disordered offenders

Caroline Logan, Jo Ramsden

The implementation of the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) strategy requires partnership between NHS providers and custodial and community-based practitioners in the National…

Structured community activity for forensic mental health – a feasibility study

Catherine Roberts, Jason Davies, Richard G. Maggs

The restrictive nature of low secure mental health settings and the issues associated with risk management and safe practice raise numerous challenges which need to be overcome…

Addressing substance misuse in medium secure settings in the UK and Ireland – a survey of current practice

Jeremy Sandbrook, Tom Clark, Karen Amanda Cocksedge

Rates of co-morbid substance misuse are high within forensic populations. Addressing these problems should be a priority as mental disorder with co-morbid substance misuse is…

Collective narrative practice in forensic mental health

Catherine Gardner-Elahi, Sannam Zamiri

Narrative Therapy offers thinking and practices which can support the development of narratives of desistance and recovery. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the two ways in…

Identity, self-story and desistance from crime

Kevin O'Sullivan, Richard Kemp, David Bright

– The purpose of this paper is to lay the groundwork for a narrative study of desistance that is both qualitative and quantitative.

View of autism spectrum conditions held by staff working within a high secure psychiatric hospital

David Murphy, Karen McMorrow

Individuals with an autism spectrum condition (ASC) represent a small proportion of patients detained in high-secure psychiatric care (HSPC) with specific difficulties and needs…

Working with transgendered sex offenders: prison staff experiences

Katie Marlow, Belinda Winder, Helen Jane Elliott

– The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into the experiences of staff working with transgendered sex offenders in a prison setting.

Editorial

Neil Gredecki, Carol Ireland