Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour: Volume 11 Issue 3

‘Blocked at every level’: criminal justice system professionals’ experiences of including people with intellectual disabilities within a targeted magistrates’ court

Darren David Chadwick, Caroline Wesson

Mental health courts (MHCs) may enable better support for people with intellectual disabilities (ID) within the criminal justice system (CJS) but little evaluative empirical…

Learning disability screening: impact on prison programmes

Laura Ramsay, Helen Wakeling, Rebecca De Lucchi, Hannah Gilbert

The purpose of this paper is to examine staff views’ of the usefulness of the Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) screening tools for learning disability and/or…

A literature review about the prevalence and identification of people with an intellectual disability within court Liaison and Diversion services

Karina Marshall-Tate, Eddie Chaplin, Jane McCarthy, Annmarie Grealish

Expert consensus is that people with an intellectual disability are over represented across the criminal justice setting (CJS). Primary research studies have been conducted in…

Contributory role of autism spectrum disorder symptomology to the viewing of indecent images of children (IIOC) and the experience of the criminal justice system

Clare Sarah Allely

Allely and Dubin (2018) and Allely et al. (2019) have emphasised that there are a range of innate vulnerabilities in many individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who are…

Revisiting cognitive assessment in the Indian prison setting

Pankhuri Aggarwal, Angela A. Joseph

Individuals with cognitive impairment are more likely to come into contact with the criminal justice system (Kimbell, 2016). Yet, only a handful of studies describe the nature of…