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There has been a long history of forensic psychology in the Prison Service. Psychologists have also worked in the Probation Service, but, until recently, were not part of a co-ordinated professional structure. This publication describes some of the developments in both areas, and the aims to promote closer working between the services.
It includes four broad and related themes:
- The prison environment from the perspective of forensic psychological practice and research.
- The prevention of harm, which explicitly includes papers on risk assessment, bullying and suicide.
- Three papers on working with prisoners with specialist needs, namely women, young offenders and lifers.
- Five papers on regimes and programmes including papers on therapeutic regimes, prison regimes, cognitive skills programmes, sex offender treatment programmes and a programme for violent offenders.
Contents
Introduction
Graham Towl & Cynthia McDougall
Psychological research in prisons
Danny Clark
Risk assessment
Danny Clark
Bullying in prisons
Jane Ireland
Suicide and self-injury
Martin McHugh
Working with women prisoners
Debs Kelland & Pauline McAvoy
Working with young offenders
Alison Dalkin & Sarah Skett
Working with life sentence prisoners
Phil Wilmott
Therapeutic regimes
Roland Woodward
Forensic psychologists' contribution to the development of prison regimes
Graham Beck
Cognitive skills programmes
Linda Blud
HM Prison Service sex offender programme
Ruth E. Mann & Emma Riches
Violent offender programmes
Gill Atrill
Managing difficult prisoners
Alex Lord
Incident management
Jacquie Evans & Colin Henson
Psychologists working with Probation Services
Kate Law
Future directions
Cynthia McDougall & Graham Towl
Series: Issues in Forensic Psychology
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