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Mental health and wellbeing and personality disorders: a guide for criminal justice professionals
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Justice
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Justice
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 29
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
This guide aims to provide practical advice and information for criminal justice professionals on recognising, working with, and supporting people who are experiencing mental health distress and who come into contact with the criminal justice system. Section one provides information on why criminal justice professionals are likely to come across people with mental health conditions in the criminal justice system and how to recognise when someone might be experiencing mental health distress. Section two provides a three step guide to working with and supporting someone who may be experiencing mental health distress. This could include victims and witnesses, or individuals who have been convicted of an offence. Section three provides information on the support available for people with mental health problems in different parts of the Northern Ireland criminal justice system. Section four provides more detailed information on the main range of mental health conditions, mental health issues and personality disorders. The guide is relevant for police officers, advocacy and support workers, solicitors, barristers, prosecutors, magistrates, the judiciary and courts and probation, prison, youth justice and Department of Justice staff. (Edited publisher abstract)
Developing a framework for the identification of criminogenic needs in offenders with intellectual disability and personality disorder: the Treatment Need Matrix
- Author:
- TAYLOR Jon
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 8(1), 2014, pp.43-50.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The criminogenic needs and psychological vulnerabilities of offenders with intellectual disability (ID) has only recently received attention within the academic literature. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of an approach to identifying such needs in order to inform treatment planning and service delivery. Design/methodology/approach: The paper describes the methods employed to identify relevant psychological variables for this population, provides an overview of the framework and describes the practices employed to establish the relevance of a range of criminogenic needs. Findings: A range of psychological variables derived from a systematic literature review are presented in the context of an assessment framework. Research limitations/implications: The Treatment Need Matrix (TNM) is currently an experimental framework for identifying the needs of offenders with ID (and personality disorder (PD)). Further research is needed to establish the reliability and validity of the tool. Practical implications: The TNM offers clinicians a practical methodology for determining the significance of a range of psychological variables cited in the literature as relevant treatment targets for offenders with IDs. Originality/value: The specific criminogenic needs of offenders with ID (and PD) has received little attention within the academic and research communities. This paper offers a novel approach to the identification. (Publisher abstract)
Learning from ‘near misses’: interviews with women who survived an incident of severe self-harm in prison
- Authors:
- BORRILL Jo, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 44(1), February 2005, pp.57-69.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article describes qualitative research with women survivors of potentially lethal self-harm in prison. In-depth interviews were carried out during 2002/03 with 15 women, (adults and young offenders), from six establishments. The interviews focused on the women's own accounts of the ‘near miss’ incident, including intentions and motivations, factors leading up to the incident, experiences of care and support, current self-harm and suicidality, and suggestions for prevention. Recommendations include: improvements to the general prison regime; training and support for staff; specialist help for women with histories of abuse, mental illness, or borderline personality disorder; improved support following stressful life events.
Improving health, supporting justice: the national delivery plan of the Health and Criminal Justice Programme Board
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 61p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This plan is published in response to the recommendations for improving the health and well-being of adult offenders in Lord Bradley’s 2009 review of people with mental health problems or learning disabilities in the criminal justice system in the United Kingdom. It accepts the direction proposed in the Bradley review and in combination with feedback from stakeholders given during the consultation ‘Improving health, supporting justice’ sets out a strategic framework of 5 objectives with timescales aimed for over the next 18 months. Delivering this plan in recessionary times means little scope for new resources and it concentrates on improving and re-focusing existing services across individual Primary Care Trust and criminal justice agencies and localities working in partnership, by adopting existing good practice, system reform to better working practices and the innovative skills of frontline staff. In addition this plan details several service specific priorities, for example for the Police and Crown Prosecution Services, the courts, prisons and probationary services and drugs and alcohol misuse services. Key deliverables, with timescales are listed throughout the text, which are referenced against the Bradley review recommendations, eighty two of which are annexed to this paper.
Managing offenders with mental illness and personality disorder converting policy into practice
- Author:
- MULLIS David
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 52p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
Review of literature on the management of offenders with mental health problems or personality disorders. Begins by defining mental illness, explores its links to criminality and discusses the rights of mentally disordered offenders. Explains the current legal situation and possible future changes in legislation, with particular reference to detention of individuals with personality disorders. Moves on to discuss probation practice with mentally disordered offenders, covering such issues as risk assessment and management, dangerousness, training, and the feasibility of the "what works" approach. Concludes by examining how a multi-agency approach can be made effective.