The Journal of Forensic Practice: Volume 15 Issue 3

The Good Lives Model tool kit for mentally disordered offenders

Mary Barnao

The Good Lives Model (GLM) is a new approach to offender rehabilitation that provides an integrative framework for assisting individuals to achieve their goals while reducing…

Functions of deliberate self‐injury of personality disordered prisoners: a small scale study

Alice Larissa Bennett, Mark Moss

The purpose of this paper is to explore client‐reported functions of deliberate self‐injury for prisoners located within a dangerous and severe personality disorder site.

A novel CAMHS risk assessment system: clinicians’ views

Matthew R. Daniel, Steve Weir, Paul A. Tiffin

The purpose of this paper is to record and analyse clinicians’ views of the proposed FACE Child and Adolescent Risk Assessment Suite (CARAS). This is a novel risk assessment…

Women who use secure services: applying the literature to women with learning disabilities

Rebecca Fish

This paper aims to review research of relevance to women with learning disabilities, focusing in particular on literature which is applicable to women with learning disabilities…

Aggression in specialist secure and forensic inpatient mental health care: incidence across care pathways

Geoff Dickens, Marco Picchioni, Clive Long

The purpose of this paper is to describe how aggressive and violent incidents differ across specialist gender, security and mental health/learning disability pathways in…

Organisational impact of a forensic education programme

Helen Walker, Jennifer Young, David Langton, Lindsay Thomson

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the organisational impact of the New to Forensic Mental Health education programme, developed for use across all forensic services in…

Editorial

Carol A. Ireland, Neil Gredecki