The Journal of Forensic Practice: Volume 24 Issue 3

Developing immersive videos to train social cognition in individuals with schizophrenia in forensic psychiatry

Mathieu Dumont, Catherine Briand, Ginette Aubin, Alexandre Dumais, Stéphane Potvin

This study aims to develop immersive scenarios (immersive videos) to foster generalization of learning while addressing social cognition, a factor associated to violence in…

Finding words for the unspoken: family intervention in forensic settings

Andy Cook, Julie Payne

The purpose of this paper is to describe family intervention (FI) with four families in which the service user is under the care of forensic mental health services. There is a…

The dark figure of violence committed by discharged psychiatric inpatients

Kaitlin Hardin, Nicholas Scurich

Official criminal justice statistics (e.g. arrest rates) underestimate the frequency of crime because not all crime gets reported to authorities, a phenomenon known as the “dark…

Service user experiences of a psychologically enhanced resettlement service [PERS] in an English open prison

Dannii Jarvis, Jake Shaw, Tamsin Lovell

The purpose of this study is to investigate the experiences of adult male prisoners presenting with personality difficulties in an open (Category D) prison in the UK and their…

Narratives of life after political imprisonment: Republican and Loyalist ex-prisoners in Northern Ireland

Nigel Hunt, Stacey Willis

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of prison experience in ex-political prisoners in Northern Ireland in the context of changing and conflicting master narratives.

The experience of inequality and its impact on mental illness – thematic analysis of patients’ lived experiences admitted to secure mental health hospital

Kristina Brenisin, Aile Trumm, Elizabeth Akinwande, Kieran Breen

The concept of inequality refers to being treated unfairly in society and its impact on mental illness has been explored primarily using a quantitative research approach…

A qualitative study exploring the experiences of multi-disciplinary staffs in a medium secure service when working from home and virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic

Kim Liddiard

Little is known about the personal and professional experiences of staff when working virtually and from home during the COVID-19 pandemic in a medium secure environment. This…

Digital displacement of youth offending: addressing the issue

Alex McCord, Philip Birch, Lewis A. Bizo

Global evidence suggests a potential displacement of youth offending from the physical to the digital landscape, requiring revision of existing detection and intervention methods…