... contributes to emotional dysregulation, influencing offending behaviour, particularly among violent offenders. However, evidence regarding its role in psychopathy and non-violent crime remains inconsistent. Few studies have examined alexithymia among female or ethnically diverse prison populations. Treatment...

... with mild ID were recruited via a method of self-selection from a regional medium and low secure service in Birmingham, UK. All service users were subject to hospitalisation under the Mental Health Act (1983/2007) and had histories of offending behaviour and were considered to present with ongoing risk...

... the prison environment, there have been various offending behaviour programmes developed to specifically address violent offending behaviour. One programme currently available within the Scottish Prison System (SPS) is the self-change programme (SCP). The SCP is a high-intensity intervention aimed...

... Programme Needs Assessment (PNA) in supporting decision making regarding selection onto high-intensity offending behaviour programmes. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative data analysis was used through the application of thematic analysis. Results were pooled using principles from meta-synthesis...

...Alessandra Cappai; Jodie Wells; James Tapp; Derek Perkins; Anna Manners; Martha Ferrito; Nitin Gupta; Mrigendra Das Purpose Substance misuse (SMU) is widely prevalent in mentally disordered offenders and is linked with violence and offending behaviour. There is however, a scarcity of literature...

...Jennifer Copley; Dan Johnson; Stella Bain Purpose – To consider the power of psychological well-being, empathy and coping style in predicting staff attitudes towards young people in looked after accommodation, involved in or at risk of offending behaviour. The purpose of this paper...

... for adults with learning disabilities to address generic deficits and factors supporting offending behaviour and to increase readiness for offence-specific treatment. Therefore, what we know about offenders with learning disabilities suggests a tension between a greater need (both real and felt) to rely...

... implications – These preliminary findings indicate the importance of assessing substance use in MDOs and considering its relationship to offending behaviour in treatment and risk management. Originality/value – Although anecdotally substance use is known to be high and likely to be related to offending...

... to be developed, at present there is a lack of evidence of ‘what works’. This paper reports a review of the type and level of offending behaviour engaged in by those in a single medium secure service, including the conviction histories for such behaviours and the psychological approaches to risk reduction...

... lack of accommodation and primary care access on release, and that disrupted the connectivity of care. These factors contributed to the social exclusion of this vulnerable group. KEYWORDS mental health; women prisoners; young offenders; women life-sentence prisoners; offending behaviour; inreach...