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Risk Assessment
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01/04/24 • 64 min
R. Karl Hanson, Ph.D., C.Psych., is one of the leading researchers in the field of risk assessment and treatment for individuals with a history of sexual offending. Originally trained as a clinical psychologist, he was a researcher and research manager in the area of corrections and crime policy for Public Safety Canada between 1991 and 2017. Dr. Hanson has published more than 175 articles, including several highly influential reviews. He is the lead author of the Static-99R, STABLE-2007, and ACUTE-2007 risk tools, which are widely used for assessing the risk and needs of individuals with a history of sexual offending. Based in Ottawa, Canada, he is currently President of the not-for-profit organization SAARNA (Society for the Advancement of Actuarial Risk Need Assessment) and adjunct faculty in the psychology department of Carleton University (Ottawa).
Dr Philip Howard is the Head of Risk Assessment Data Science at the Ministry of Justice. He has worked as a statistician, social researcher and now data scientist on prison, probation and offender assessment issues since 1996. He is the author or co-author of each of the actuarial risk assessment instruments now in use in HMPPS.
Key reference:
Helmus, M. (2021) Estimating the Probability of Sexual Recidivism Among Men Charged or Convicted of Sexual Offences: Evidence Based Guidance for Applied Evaluators. S exual Offending: Theory, Research, and Prevention,Vol. 16, Article e4283, https://doi.org/10.5964/sotrap.4283
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Bias in Forensic Psychology: Live at the European Congress of Psychology, Brighton 2023
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12/14/23 • 49 min
Martine Ratcliffe has worked as a forensic psychologist for HM Prison and Probation Service for 20 years. She’s currently the national diversity and inclusion (D&I) lead for the Psychology Services Group. Her passion for D&I has been amplified through her work with men, women and children in custody and from personal experience as a mixed-race woman working within HMPPS.
Dr Tansy Warrilow is a clinical psychologist at Rampton High Secure Hospital. She has introduced innovative techniques within her practice to address sources of cultural bias for clients.
Lawrence Jones is a consultant clinical and forensic psychologist and has worked in community, prison and NHS settings with people who have offended with a range of mental health difficulties. He is a former chair of the DFP serving two terms. He has been involved with the DFP EDI committee. He is a white cisgendered man and acknowledges his privilege. He has co-edited a book on addressing bias in forensic practice.
Yin, R.K. (1984), Case Study Research. Design and Methods, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.
Hammond, & O’Rourke, M. (2022) The Cumulative Modelling of Risk. In Liell, G.C., Fisher, M.J. & Jones, L.F. (Eds) Challenging Bias in Forensic Psychological Assessment and Testing: Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Working with Diverse Populations.
On what to do:Day, A. Woldgabreal, Y., & Butcher, L. (2023) Cultural Bias in Forensic Assessment: Considerations and Suggestions 245-258. In Liell, G.C., Fisher, M.J. & Jones. L.F. (eds.) Challenging bias in forensic psychological assessment and testing : theoretical and practical approaches to working with diverse populations.
On grids: Blagden N., & Needs, A. (2023) Personal Construct Psychology and Repertory Grids: Acknowledging and Exploring Perspectives 259-277. In Liell, G.C., Fisher, M.J. & Jones. L.F. (eds.) Challenging bias in forensic psychological assessment and testing : theoretical and practical approaches to working with diverse populations. And the fantastic website with software that analyses grids and introduces them too: https://www.idiogrid.com/Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Compassion-focused therapy
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07/29/21 • 69 min
Professor Paul Gilbert is a Clinical Psychologist at the University of Derby and honorary visiting Prof at the University of Queensland. He retired from the NHS in 2016 after over 40 years as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist. He has researched evolutionary approaches to psychopathology with a special focus on mood, shame and self-criticism in various mental health difficulties for which compassion-focused therapy was developed. He has written/edited 21 books and over 250 papers and book chapters. In 2006 he established the Compassionate Mind Foundation as an international charity with the mission statement to promote wellbeing through the scientific understanding and application of compassion (www.compassionatemind.co.uk).
Further reading:
Seligman, M. E. P. (1972). "Learned helplessness". Annual Review of Medicine. 23 (1): 407–412.
Gilbert, P. (1984). Depression: From Psychology to Brain State. London: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Ribeiro da Silva, D., Rijo, D., Salekin, R.T. et al. Clinical change in psychopathic traits after the PSYCHOPATHY.COMP program: preliminary findings of a controlled trial with male detained youth. J Exp Criminol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-020-09418-x
Cozolino, L. (2017). The Neuroscience Of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain. Third Edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
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Is personality disorder a health or a justice issue?
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11/26/20 • 78 min
Clare Barstow spent 25 years in prison, having been convicted of murder nearly 30 years ago. Since her release has volunteered for prison charities, given many talks in prisons and in the community, and helps to shape services for the better through sharing her experiences.
Sarah Skett is a Registered Forensic Psychologist and an Associate Fellow fo the British Psychological Society. She has worked with people who have committed crimes for nearly 30 years and is Head of the Joint Offender Personality Disorder pathway for both the NHS and HM Prison and Probation Service.
Jake Shaw is an Associate Director and Consultant Forensic Psychologist with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. He specialises in working in the field of personality disorder.
Further reading:
Livesley, W. J., Dimaggio, G., & Clarkin, J. F. (Eds.). (2016). Integrated treatment for personality disorder: A modular approach. The Guilford Press. Bladzell, J., Prince, S., & Ramsden, J. (Eds.) (2020). Working effectively with personality disorder: Contemporary and critical approaches to clinical and organisational practice. Pavillion publishing and media Ltd. Public Health England. (2018). Gender specific standards to improve health and wellbeing for women in prison in England. www.gov.uk/pheHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Meet Sally and Kerensa
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09/23/20 • 4 min
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In memory of Erwin James: Reflections from a Lifer
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02/01/24 • 55 min
Last week we very sadly lost Erwin James, who was a champion of prison reform through his journalism - a career he started while still serving a life sentence in prison.
In 2021, we were honoured to welcome Erwin as a guest on the Forensic Psychology Podcast, and we wanted to repost that interview to remind ourselves of his thoughts on the role forensic psychologists played in his time in prison.
Erwin James was a Guardian columnist and contributor - a career he started in 1998 while still serving in prison. He then became Editor in Chief of Inside Time, the national newspaper for people in prison. He became a writer in prison where he served 20 years of a mandatory life sentence. He was a Commissioner on the panel of the Westminster Commission on Miscarriages of Justice. Erwin was the author of three books: A Life Inside: A Prisoners Notebook, The Home Stretch: From Prison to Parole, and Redeemable: a Memoir of Darkness and Hope.
Further reading:
Levering Lewis. D. (1994, first published 1973). Prisoners of Honor: The Dreyfus Affair (1994). Henry Holt & Company
Solzhenitsyn, A. (2003, first published 1966). Cancer Ward. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Tolstoy, L. (1998, first published 1869). War and Peace. Oxford University Press
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Behind the Crime on BBC Radio 4
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08/01/22 • 2 min
Sally and Kerensa will be presenting a brand new series called Behind the Crime on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesdays at 8pm.
Starting on Wednesday 3 August, they'll be talking to three people who have committed criminal offences, putting those offences into the context of the lives they've led.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0019r5b
These are powerful, emotional, dramatic conversations. They're also conversations that can help to explain why some people act in the ways they do.
And they demonstrate the work that forensic psychologists do in prisons.
So tune in to Behind the Crime on BBC Radio 4 or BBC Sounds.
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Forensic psychology in secure hospitals
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10/21/22 • 58 min
This episode features a forensic psychologist who worked in Broadmoor secure hospital for nearly three decades.
Derek Perkins, Ph.D. is a UK Consultant Clinical & Forensic Psychologist at West London NHS Trust, and Honorary Professor of Forensic Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London. He is the co-director of the online Protect research group on internet-related sexual offending, and a Trustee of the Lucy Faithfull Foundation child protection charity. Prof Perkins was Head of Psychological Services at Broadmoor Hospital (high secure psychiatric service for London and the South of England) from 1986-2013, having previously worked in the UK Prison Service and Midland Centre for Forensic Psychiatry. He has extensive experience in the assessment and treatment of sex offenders, including the interface between personality disorders and sexual offending, psychophysiological and other lab-based assessments of sexual interest, internet-related sexual offending, child sexual abuse and sexual homicide. He is regularly instructed in family and criminal court proceedings, including criminal court work and training in Hong Kong.
Further reading:
Bates, L (2021). Men Who Hate Women. Simon & Schuster UK. ISBN13: 9781398504653
Blackburn, R. (1995) The Psychology of Criminal Conduct: Theory, Research and Practice. ISBN: 978-0-471-96175-8
Black, D.A (2002) Broadmoor Interacts: Criminal Insanity Revisited: a Psychological Perspective on its Clinical Development. Barry Rose Law Publishers Ltd
Gordon, H (2012) Broadmoor. London: Psychology News Press. ISBN 978-0-907-63335-8;
Walton, J. & Hocken. K. (2020). Acceptance and Compassion as Interventions for Paraphilia. In Perkins. D., Akerman, G., Bartols, R. (eds).Assessing Sexual Interest and Arousal.
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The parole board and the role of forensic psychologists
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09/30/21 • 72 min
Martin Jones has been Chief Executive of the Parole Board since October 2015. He has spent the majority of the past 30 years working in the justice system in a range of delivery or policy roles. In the summer of 2021 Martin was awarded a CBE for services to victims, transparency and diversity in the parole system.
Fiona Ainsworth is a Chartered Forensic Psychologist and associate fellow of the BPS. She worked in HMPPS for ten years, initially specialising in the assessment and treatment of people who commit sexual offences. In 2010 she left the prison service for self-employment and she joined the Parole Board in 2017.
Further reading:
Mann, Howard, Tew (2018) What is Rehabilitative Culture? The Prison Service Journal, 235, 3-9
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/parole-board
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Open Prisons
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12/21/23 • 55 min
Adrian Turner joined the prison service 1988 as a prison officer, working at Ashford Remand Centre. He subsequently worked at HMP Full Sutton, HMP Norwich, HMP Whitemoor, PSC Newbold Revel, HMP Lindholme, HMP Channings Wood, HMP Gloucester, HMP Eastwood Park, HMP Bristol, HMP Sudbury and currently works as the Senior Operational Lead for the open estate. Prior to working in headquarters he was Governing Governor of Sudbury open prison for seven years. He has worked at every level of HM Prison and Probation Service and in every type of establishment. His main motivation is to help rehabilitate prisoners and give them the skills they need to lead a crime free life. Sudbury was particularly strong in this area with around 50,000 ROTL events per year helping prisoners build and embed protective factors such as accommodation, employment, children and families which are known to be key to successful rehabilitation. At Sudbury they would routinely have between 150 and 200 prisoners at work in the community each day, working in multiple industries matched to their skills, knowledge and qualifications. This gave them the best opportunity to lead crime free lives on release creating safer communities.
Dr Gary Goodley is a principal Forensic Psychologist working in prisons across the Midlands. He has over 16 years experience working in prisons, the last 10 of which have been spent based in open prisons. Gary recently completed a PhD evaluating the effectiveness of risk management protocols in open prisons.
Key references:
Andvig, E., Koffeld-Hamidane, S., Ausland, L. H., & Karlsson, B. (2021). Inmates’ perceptions and experiences of how they were prepared for release from a Norwegian open prison. Nordic journal of criminology, 22(2), 203-220.
Clark, D. A., Fisher, M. J., & McDougall, C. (1993). A new methodology for assessing the level of risk in incarcerated offenders. The British Journal of Criminology, 33(3), 436-448.
Goodley, G., & Pearson, D. (2023). Monitoring prisoners preparing for release: Who ‘fails’ in open prison conditions?. European Journal of Criminology, 14773708231183570.
Goodley, G., & Pearson, D. (2023). Risk management in open prisons: A critical analysis and research agenda. Probation Journal, 02645505231173683.
Mastrobuoni, G., & Terlizzese, D. (2022). Leave the door open? Prison conditions and recidivism. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14(4), 200-233.
McDougall, C., Pearson, D. A., Willoughby, H., & Bowles, R. A. (2013). Evaluation of the ADViSOR project: Cross‐situational behaviour monitoring of high‐risk offenders in prison and the community. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 18(2), 205-228.
Statham, B. M., Winder, B., & Micklethwaite, D. (2021). Success within a UK open prison and surviving the ‘pains of freedom’. Psychology, Crime & Law, 27(8), 729-750.
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How many episodes does The Forensic Psychology Podcast have?
The Forensic Psychology Podcast currently has 38 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Society & Culture, True Crime and Podcasts.
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The episode title 'Forensic psychology in secure hospitals' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on The Forensic Psychology Podcast is 47 minutes.
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The first episode of The Forensic Psychology Podcast was released on Sep 23, 2020.
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