...Bethany Hellawell; Iain Brennan Purpose Maintaining safety in prisons remains an integral priority for authorities as well as being conducive to rehabilitation. However, safety is both an objective and subjective construct. Official data measure tangible, recordable and often more extreme...

... implications for assessment, prognosis and risk management (Skeem et al., 2011 ; Boduszek et al., 2021). Psychopathy Criminal behavior Incarcerated men Substance use Psychiatric symptoms Maldives Assessment Prison A substantial empirical literature further demonstrates...

...Aliye Emirali Purpose This paper aims to reflect on the function of food refusals in prisons. Previous rapid evidence assessment (Adlam and Powell, 2023) has indicated that literature has lacked robustness, and includes just one study based in the UK which is outdated. The paper also considers...

...Leanne Hanley Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe how quality has been ensured when introducing compassionate ways of working to the Healthy Sex Programme in His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service ( HMPPS ). Design/methodology/approach This paper provides a conceptual overview...

...-harm. Women prisoners Interpersonal trauma Self-harm Violence Prison Compassion focused therapy The population size for this research was limited due to the psychological intervention being in the pilot stages. Therefore, this study focused on the experiences of the two therapists who were...

...Karen Johnson; Caroline Falgate Purpose This paper argues for greater emphasis on desistance self-narratives in criminal justice practice. It draws together the aims and objectives of separate HM Prison and Probation Service funded research studies and related literature across different...

... providing Stage 2 training. In addition, there is an expectation that ethics is taught to students at all stages of their training in forensic psychology. For example, the Forensic Accreditation Handbook for MSc Forensic Psychology notes that: Ethics Prison Hospital Psychology Forensic...

.... Design/methodology/approach A semi-structured interview was conducted with 62 men who were resident in a specialist treatment service in a UK high secure prison. The interview schedule framed questions about abuse and trauma in a neutral way. Findings There was a significant increase in the reported...

...Sian Evans; Madeline Smyth; Rachel Worthington Purpose Sexual boundary violations (SBV) can have significant implications in any environment, including that of a prison setting. Conducting research on a sensitive topic in prison services can be difficult to achieve, however, understanding why SBV...

...-structured interviews took place with eight males sentenced to an OLR across two prisons in Scotland. All participants were in closed custody and had not yet progressed through their sentence. Interviews were transcribed and analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Findings Four main themes were...

... the narrative accounts of convicted street gang members within an English and Welsh prison sample. Design/methodology/approach Using semi-structured interviews with nine convicted male prisoners, data were analysed, systematically coded and themes generated in line with the principles of thematic analysis...

...Toni Edgell; Hannah Lorimer Purpose Research indicates the challenges indeterminate sentenced prisoners (ISPs) face within open prison may have a potentially devastating impact on rehabilitation and prison sentence progression. The authors conducted a study in an English open prison to explore...

...Lisa Edmondson; Harleen Kooner; Cara Wood Purpose This paper describes qualitative research evaluating the impacts of parkrun in a female prison. The extended methodology section explains why HMPPS psychologists have been ideally suited to investigate custodial parkrun whilst successfully...

... prison population, there is no research to date that has explored the experiences of people with ADHD in prison. Therefore, this study aims to address this gap in the literature. Design/methodology/approach Data was collected within an adult male Category B prison. Semi-structured interviews were...

...Catharine Charlotte Booth; Zoe Stephenson Purpose Negotiation is an established strategy used by the police and His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service to manage serious incidents. Whilst the literature acknowledges the role of the negotiator to be stressful, little is known about...

...Jessica Adlam; Gemma Powell Purpose This rapid evidence assessment (REA) study aims to synthesise what is known about food refusal within male prison populations to aid a better understanding of why this occurs. By looking at the various functions of food refusal for this population, it is hoped...

... of violence interventions, by exploring the experience of prisoners who completed the self-change programme (SCP) during a 24-month period in HMP Shotts. Design/methodology/approach Five prisoners who completed the SCP at HMP Shotts were interviewed via a semi-structured interview to explore...

...Norman Anthony McClelland; Toby Brandon; Wendy Dyer; Kathryn Cassidy; Louise Ridley; Paul Biddle Purpose There is clear evidence that prison can be detrimental to mental health and that wider society has tended to assume “out of sight, out of mind” for prisoners in mental distress. The lack...

... countries, community mental health services operate independently from the criminal justice system (Kidia et al., 2017 ; Tamburello et al., 2017). To manage these unmet needs in prisons effectively, close and continuous collaboration between criminal justice systems and mental health...

...Laura Ramsay; Cheyenne M. May; Priscilla Kennedy; Erin Lucy Fitzakerley Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline qualitative research into what influences, maintains and reduces prolific self-harm within women’s prisons across England. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured...