Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour: Volume 5 Issue 4

Real Work Opportunities: establishing an accessible vocational rehabilitation programme within a forensic intellectual disability service

Alyssa Cox, Hayley Simmons, Ginny Painter, Pippa Philipson, Rachel Hill, Verity Chester

Patients treated within secure/forensic settings experience numerous barriers to meaningful vocation, including restrictions under the Mental Health Act, which limit community…

Forensic learning disability nursing: what's it really like?

Mark F Dalgarno, Sharon A Riordan

– The purpose of this paper is to explore the lived experiences of learning disability nurses working within forensic services, and their views on their practice as a speciality.

Transformers: a programme for people with an intellectual disability and emotion regulation difficulties

Jenna McWilliams, Ian de Terte, Janet Leathem, Sandra Malcolm, Jared Watson

The Transformers programme is a community-based intervention for people with an intellectual disability (ID) who have emotion regulation difficulties, which can manifest as…

Importance of locus of control in offenders with intellectual disability

Matthew Raymond, Susan Hayes

Locus of control (LOC) is the manner in which one attributes their ability to make change in life. This could be through others, fate or chance (externalised), or through oneself…

Getting to grips with the new Code of Practice

Colin Dale