Behind the Crime on BBC Radio 4

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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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.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Children in Custody

This episode features two forensic psychologists working within the Youth Custody Service. Alisa Purton is a registered Forensic Psychologist and an Associate Fellow and Chartered Scientist of the British Psychological Society. Alisa joined the prison service in 2001 and has worked with children in custody since 2008. She is currently the lead psychologist for HMPPS Youth Custody Services which involves provision and management of psychology services for all children in custody across England and Wales.

Ariane Hanman is a registered Forensic Psychologist. Ariane joined the prison service in 2006 and, like Alisa has worked with children in custody since 2008, giving them a joint 28 years’ experience with children in custody. She is a Cluster Lead Psychologist within youth custody and is currently seconded to the Operations portfolio within Youth Custody Services and is leading on the delivery of a Framework of Integrated Care.

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Forensic psychology in secure hospitals

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.