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Journal of Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour

Practice, policy and research

ISSN: 2042-0927

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Journal of Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour is aimed at everyone who is involved in supporting people with learning disabilities who are involved (or in danger of becoming involved) with the criminal justice or forensic health systems.

The journal offers information on the latest research and policy, as well as practical advice about working effectively with these groups who often fall in the gap between mainstream learning disability and forensic services.

Coverage

• the nature of learning disabilities and offending behaviour  –  including recent research, epidemiological issues, the nature and type of offending and cross-cultural comparisons
• treatment approaches – what works?
• diagnostic issues
• risk assessment and management
• the needs and views of service users and carers.

Key Journal Audiences

Journal of Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour is vital for everyone involved in learning disabilities and offending behaviour. It is a hugely valuable source of information for practitioners, managers, policy-makers, academics, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, nurses, students, carers and people who use services, as well as NHS and primary care trusts, universities and colleges, local authorities, probation services, learning disability services, HM prisons, the Police and the voluntary sector.

The official journal of the Annual International Conference on the Care and Treatment of Offenders with a Learning Disability. In 2012 the conference is being organized by The National Autistic Society and hosted by Northumbria University, St Andrew's Healthcare and Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Abstracted and Indexed in:

• British Nursing Index
• Educational Research Abstracts
• Social Care Online.

Journal of Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour is available as part of an online subscription to the Emerald Health and Social Care Subject Collection. For more information, please email collections@emeraldinsight.com.

This journal is a member of and subscribes to the
principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics.