... and kept confidential. All electronic data were stored on password protected computers including audio data and transcriptions. The research took place in a specialist forensic mental health and learning disability service for adults which supports people within low, medium and high secure...

...Rachel Craven; Matthew Tonkin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare learning-disabled (LD) and non-LD offenders in terms of their relating styles and to examine the relationship between relating styles and offence types. Design/methodology/approach Two groups of male offenders...

...Julia Kelly Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline and evaluate the development of a thinking skills programme for adults with learning disabilities at risk of offending. Design/methodology/approach – The programme was evaluated over three years using self-report clinical...

...Geoff Dickens; Philip Sugarman; Marco Picchioni; Clive Long In this study we demonstrate how the Health of the Nation Outcomes Scales for secure and forensic service users (HoNOS‐secure) tracks risk and recovery in men with mental illness and men with learning disability in a secure care pathway...

...Carl Benton; Ashok Roy This paper reports on the first three years of a community forensic team in Birmingham working with individuals with learning disabilities who have offended or are at risk of doing so. Using an interprofessional model, the team provided assessment, intervention and management...

...Leam Craig; Claire Nagi; Roger Hutchinson Assessment of mental capacity in people with learning disabilities involved in criminal proceedings has been debated, and the introduction of mental capacity legislation in the United Kingdom makes provisions for people who lack the capacity to make...

...Laura Spiers The Psychopathy Checklist‐Revised is used in forensic and clinical settings to give an indication of the level of psychopathy an individual presents. The use of the PCL‐R with offenders with a learning disability (LD) is understudied. The current study aims to replicate a study...

...James Sasse; Karen Gough The purpose of the study discussed here was to review the experience and management of bullying on an open forensic borderline learning disability unit. Semi‐structured interviews were used to gather the perceptions, experiences and recommendations of service users about...