Crime In Mind Seminar “ANTILIBIDINAL MEDICATION – MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF SEXUAL AROUSAL (MMSA) IN THE UK” will be held on Tuesday 7th May 2024, 5-7pm. This will be a free virtual event via Zoom. Spaces are limited on a first… Continue reading
Our next Seminar “Approaches to Risk Management of Complex Offenders in Scotland” will be held on Tuesday 9th April 2024, 5-7pm. This will be a free virtual event via Zoom. Spaces are limited on a first come basis. To book… Continue reading
A reminder that our next Seminar – ‘POLAR: The development of an integrated intervention pathway in prisons‘ will be held on Tuesday 5th March 2024, 3-5pm. This will be a free virtual event via Zoom. Spaces are limited on a… Continue reading
Our next Seminar – ‘POLAR: The development of an integrated intervention pathway in prisons‘ will be held on Tuesday 5th March 2024, 3-5pm. This will be a free virtual event via Zoom. Spaces are limited on a first come basis.… Continue reading
When an individual kills others and then themself, the rest of us tend to presume the perpetrator must have been mentally ill. Alexis Theodorou and colleagues have just published their investigation of the extent to which this is true1. They… Continue reading
In December 2023, HM Prison and Probation Service and the NHS published a welcome and ambitious document The Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway1. This sets out the joint vision for psychologically informed services for offenders with a diagnosis of personality… Continue reading
A reminder that our next Seminar – ‘Looking For Love in All The Wrong Places’ – Chemsex Crime, Risk & Vulnerability will be held on Thursday 23rd November, 5-7pm. This will be a free virtual event via Zoom. Spaces are limited… Continue reading
Our next Seminar – ‘Looking For Love in All The Wrong Places’ – Chemsex Crime, Risk & Vulnerability will be held on Thursday 23rd November, 5-7pm. This will be a free virtual event via Zoom. Spaces are limited on a… Continue reading
The Suicide prevention in England: 5-year cross-sector strategy has just been published1. For hospital inpatients, the good news is that, based on National Confidential Inquiry2 figures, ‘collective efforts to improve patient safety led to a 35% fall in suicides in… Continue reading
by Dr Laura Janes – Consultant solicitor, GT Stewart Solicitors This article appears in our latest newsletter (Summer 2023) which can be downloaded here. The problem with the law is that it tends to galvanise around legal events rather than the… Continue reading