Applications are invited to support people who have already completed some early work towards major research development proposals in the field of offender mental health and need to complete further specific work streams on a pathway to a substantive application… Continue reading
By. John Gunn, CBE, MD, FRC psych, FMedSci, Emeritus Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, KCL Chairman, Crime in Mind Introduction Congratulations to the Times newspaper on setting up a review of the criminal justice system. A review is overdue, but you… Continue reading
Those of you who joined our webinar by Don Grubin, Belinda Winder, Rebekah Bourne and Callum Ross on Tuesday 7th May – and those who missed it too – may like to follow up some of the material presented. Belinda… 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
This is an invitation worth taking. It is the title of a book just published by The Borough Press. Twelve stories have been brought together by Joanna Cannon, once a practising psychiatrist and now an author of fiction. Nothing in… Continue reading