The parole board and the role of forensic psychologists

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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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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Forensic psychology in women's prisons

Gillian Sutcliffe is Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist. She has worked for HMPPS since 2001 and in women’s prisons for 3 years, currently based at HMP Low Newton. Gillian is national lead for safety of women, and an interest in developing practice for women convicted of sexual offences.

Becky Day is a Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist and has worked for HMPPS for over 12 years. She is the lead psychologist at HMP Foston Hall where she manages the delivery of psychological services. She has an interest in working with women who are convicted of firesetting and developing practice for specific offences such as stalking.

Further reading:

Gilbert, G (2020). Compassion from its evolution to a psychotherapy. Frontiers in psychology. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology

Russell Kolts work found at his website: http://www.compassionatemind.net/

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Reflections from a Lifer: Erwin James

Erwin James has been a Guardian columnist and contributor since 1998. Currently he is 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 has been a consultant for Iain Duncan Smith MP on prisoner rehabilitation and a Commissioner on the panel of the Westminster Commission on Miscarriages of Justice. Erwin is 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

www.thereader.org.uk

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