...Holly Panting; Charlotte Swift; Wendy Goodman; Cara Davis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the Stages of Change (SOC) model can be applied to working with offenders with learning disabilities (LD), and furthermore, to determine if it might be efficacious...

...Tim Riding Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the nature and impact of a restraint reduction strategy implemented within a secure learning disability service in response to the national Positive and Safe programme. Design/methodology/approach The strategy was comprised of three...

...Robert J. Chandler; Charlotte Swift; Wendy Goodman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the use of cognitive behavioural approaches to treat a gentleman with a learning disability who had been reported to the police for allegedly making contact with children using social media...

...Dr Fergus Douds and Professor Michael Brown; Fellex Mediseni; Michael Brown Purpose – The Purpose of this paper is to identify and explore the views and experiences of specialist learning disability (LD) health service professionals regarding the management of and support offered to people...

...Ruth Howard; Emma Phipps; Jane Clarbour; Kelly Rayner Purpose – People with learning disabilities (LD) often lack necessary support in navigating and coping within the Criminal Justice System (CJS). The purpose of this paper is to explore their experiences, from their own perspective...

...Daniel Silva; Karen Gough; Hannah Weeks Purpose – At present, there are significant limitations to the criminal justice system’s (CJS) ability to respond appropriately to detainees or defendant with learning disabilities (LD). The development of Liaison and Diversion Services has provided...

...Karina Louise Hepworth; Helen Williams Purpose – The learning disability nursing role in the multi-professional Youth Offending Team (YOT) enables the recognition, acknowledgement and understanding of the needs of people entering the Criminal Justice System (CJS) and provides a platform to ensure...

... – The paper highlights the emerging nature of problematic internet use amongst learning disabled offenders. It serves to raise awareness among health and social care professionals and instigate the development of further good practice. The second measure utilised was the Adult Nowicki-Strickland Internal...

... an overview of both the process and method used to implement occupational therapy, as well as a service user perspective and an illustration of its efficacy in a medium secure setting. Personality disorder Learning disabilities Intellectual disability Occupational therapy Medium secure unit Forensic...

...John Devapriam; Regi T. Alexander Purpose Traditionally, services for people with learning disabilities (LD) and forensic needs are underdeveloped. This paper aims to describe the setting up of a tiered model of LD forensic service provision in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, facilitated...

... delineates the complexity and heterogeneity of treatment and supports needs of individuals with intellectual disabilities and offending behaviour. Anna M. Palucka can be contacted at: anna.palucka@camh.ca © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Learning disabilities Intellectual disability...

.... Five key criteria define the levels of the scale, as shown in Table I . Ashlee Curtis can be contacted at: ajcur@deakin.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Arson Intellectual disability Learning disability Treatment Systematic review Fire setting Disabilities...

...Joel Harvey; Brian Quinn Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the complexities involved in the role of forensic practitioners working with people with learning disabilities and to put forward a preliminary model of forensic practitioner resilience. Design/methodology/approach...

...Brendan M. O'Mahony Purpose This paper's aim is to examine the interaction between an intermediary, a vulnerable defendant and barristers and the judge in a courtroom. The paper seeks to consider how the communication needs of vulnerable defendants, such as those with learning disabilities, should...

... support service (FSS) for adults with learning disabilities. Design/methodology/approach The review involved analysing data from the Forensic Support Service database for two six month periods (pre‐ and post‐introduction of the screen). Percentages of FSS cases referred to the speech and language...

... Disabling barriers Structural analysis Quantitative methods Criminology and sociology Intellectual disabilities Learning disabilities United Kingdom Administration of justice Research by Vernon (1999) and Pfeiffer (1991) suggests that owing to a lack of economic support, many disabled...

..., it is not known in which form these treatments were offered, and whether any adjustments were made. Intellectual disability Learning disabilities Juvenile offenders Characteristics Functioning Treatment Disabilities Young adults This article, which is based on the analysis of data from 1,363...

...Fola Esan; Melanie Pittaway; Beatrice Nyamande; Alex Graham Purpose This paper aims to describe the experience of a secure learning disability service in participating in the national Shared Pathway pilot project in secure services. Design/methodology/approach Some background drivers...

... approach being a potential mode of treatment suitable for a proportion of patients with learning disability in secure conditions. Originality/value TC approaches are innovative in forensic learning disability. No previous evaluations of TC based interventions have been published in this field...

...Paula Johnson Purpose This paper aims to focus on staff injuries arising from incidents involving physical intervention (PI) with service users in a forensic, learning disability hospital. Design/methodology/approach Incident reports and individual electronic patient records were analysed...