Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour: Volume 9 Issue 1

Outcomes of an inner city forensic intellectual disability service

Leah Wooster, Jane McCarthy, Eddie Chaplin

National policy in England is now directed towards keeping patients with intellectual disability (ID) presenting with forensic problems for time-limited treatment. The result is…

Does the adapted sex offender treatment programme reduce cognitive distortions? A meta-analysis

Chris Patterson

For the 3.8 per cent of people with intellectual disabilities (IDs) who have offended sexually, the main form of treatment is the group-based, cognitive-behavioural, adapted sex…

Working with intellectually disabled autistic individuals – a qualitative study using repertory grids

Rachel Worthington, Chris Patterson, Neel Halder

The purpose of this paper is to elucidate how care professionals/providers construe, understand and make sense of the characteristics that are important when providing care to…

Social cognition in intellectually disabled male criminal offenders: a deficit in affect perception?

Luke Patrick Wilson Rogers, John Robertson, Mike Marriott, Matthew Kenneth Belmonte

Although intellectual disability (ID) and criminal offending have long been associated, the nature of this link is obfuscated by reliance on historically unrigorous means of…

Keep Safe: the development of a manualised group CBT intervention for adolescents with ID who display harmful sexual behaviours

Aida Malovic, Rowena Rossiter, Glynis Murphy

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the development of Keep Safe, a manualised group intervention for adolescents with intellectual disabilities (ID) who display harmful…

Rare instances of individuals with autism supporting or engaging in terrorism: a response to Lino Faccini and Clare Allely

Nicholas Paul Chown, Luke Beardon, Kleio Cossburn

Rare instances of individuals with autism supporting or engaging in terrorism: a reply

Clare Sarah Allely, Lino Faccini