The Forensic Psychology Podcast

Sally and Kerensa will be presenting a brand new series called Behind the Crime on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesdays at 8pm. Starting on Wednesday 3 August, they'll be talking to three people who have committed criminal offences, putting those offences into the context of the lives they've led. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0019r5b These are powerful, emotional, dramatic conversations. They're also conversations that can help to explain why some people act in the ways they do. And they demonstrate the work that forensic psychologists do in prisons. So tune in to Behind the Crime on BBC Radio 4 or BBC Sounds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode features two forensic psychologists working within the Youth Custody Service. Alisa Purton is a registered Forensic Psychologist and an Associate Fellow and Chartered Scientist of the British Psychological Society. Alisa joined the prison service in 2001 and has worked with children in custody since 2008. She is currently the lead psychologist for HMPPS Youth Custody Services which involves provision and management of psychology services for all children in custody across England and Wales. Ariane Hanman is a registered Forensic Psychologist. Ariane joined the prison service in 2006 and, like Alisa has worked with children in custody since 2008, giving them a joint 28 years’ experience with children in custody. She is a Cluster Lead Psychologist within youth custody and is currently seconded to the Operations portfolio within Youth Custody Services and is leading on the delivery of a Framework of Integrated Care. Further reading: Glynn, M. (2014) Black Men, Invisibility and Crime Offence Paralleling Behaviour: A Case Formulation Approach to Offender Assessment and Intervention Daffern, M., Jones, L. & Shine, J. (2010) Towards a Critical Race Theory of Desistance Lipsey, M. (2009) The Primary Factors that Characterize Effective Interventions with Juvenile Offenders: A Meta-Analytic Overview Miller, W. R. & Rollnick, S. (2012) Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change (Applications of Motivational Interviewing) Documentary: Australia’s Shame: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2016/07/25/4504895.htm Album: Psychodrama by Dave Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Jo Wood is a Registered Forensic Psychologist who has worked for the probation service for over 20 years. She is the lead psychologist for the Manchester division and works with a range of agencies as part of her work within Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA). She specialises in work with individuals who commit sexual or violent offences and also individuals who have learning difficulties.  Andrew Bates has worked as a Registered Forensic Psychologist since 1987 in custodial, community and voluntary sector settings. He has provided training, consultancy and professional supervision of other psychologists for many agencies including the NHS, NSPCC, social services and the private sector. He has worked full-time for the National Probation Service since 2001 undertaking assessment, treatment, case consultancy and research. His areas of forensic specialism are sexual offending, autism, learning disability, stalking and personality disorder. Further reading: Van der Kolk, Bessel A., (2015). The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma. New York: Penguin Books. Robin Wilson: http://www.robinjwilson.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Erwin James has been a Guardian columnist and contributor since 1998. Currently he is Editor in Chief of Inside Time, the national newspaper for people in prison. He became a writer in prison where he served 20 years of a mandatory life sentence. He has been a consultant for Iain Duncan Smith MP on prisoner rehabilitation and a Commissioner on the panel of the Westminster Commission on Miscarriages of Justice. Erwin is the author of three books: A Life Inside: A Prisoners Notebook, The Home Stretch: From Prison to Parole, and Redeemable: a Memoir of Darkness and Hope. Further reading: Levering Lewis. D. (1994, first published 1973). Prisoners of Honor: The Dreyfus Affair (1994).   Henry Holt & Company Solzhenitsyn, A. (2003, first published 1966). Cancer Ward. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Tolstoy, L. (1998,  first published 1869). War and Peace.  Oxford University Press  www.thereader.org.uk  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Martin Jones has been Chief Executive of the Parole Board since October 2015. He has spent the majority of the past 30 years working in the justice system in a range of delivery or policy roles. In the summer of 2021 Martin was awarded a CBE for services to victims, transparency and diversity in the parole system. Fiona Ainsworth is a Chartered Forensic Psychologist and associate fellow of the BPS. She worked in HMPPS for ten years, initially specialising in the assessment and treatment of people who commit sexual offences. In 2010 she left the prison service for self-employment and she joined the Parole Board in 2017.  Further reading: Mann, Howard, Tew (2018) What is Rehabilitative Culture? The Prison Service Journal, 235, 3-9 https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/parole-board Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gillian Sutcliffe is Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist. She has worked for HMPPS since 2001 and in women’s prisons for 3 years, currently based at HMP Low Newton. Gillian is national lead for safety of women, and an interest in developing practice for women convicted of sexual offences.  Becky Day is a Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist and has worked for HMPPS for over 12 years. She is the lead psychologist at HMP Foston Hall where she manages the delivery of psychological services. She has an interest in working with women who are convicted of firesetting and developing practice for specific offences such as stalking. Further reading: Gilbert, G (2020). Compassion from its evolution to a psychotherapy. Frontiers in psychology. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology Russell Kolts work found at his website: http://www.compassionatemind.net/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professor Paul Gilbert is a Clinical Psychologist at the University of Derby and honorary visiting Prof at the University of Queensland. He retired from the NHS in 2016 after over 40 years as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist. He has researched evolutionary approaches to psychopathology with a special focus on mood, shame and self-criticism in various mental health difficulties for which compassion-focused therapy was developed. He has written/edited 21 books and over 250 papers and book chapters. In 2006 he established the Compassionate Mind Foundation as an international charity with the mission statement to promote wellbeing through the scientific understanding and application of compassion (www.compassionatemind.co.uk). Further reading: Seligman, M. E. P. (1972). "Learned helplessness". Annual Review of Medicine. 23 (1): 407–412. Gilbert, P. (1984). Depression: From Psychology to Brain State. London: Lawrence Erlbaum. Ribeiro da Silva, D., Rijo, D., Salekin, R.T. et al. Clinical change in psychopathic traits after the PSYCHOPATHY.COMP program: preliminary findings of a controlled trial with male detained youth. J Exp Criminol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-020-09418-x Cozolino, L. (2017). The Neuroscience Of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain. Third Edition. New York:  W.W. Norton & Co. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professor Jane L. Ireland PhD is a Chartered Psychologist, Forensic Psychologist, and Chartered Scientist. She has a background in both psychology and law. She holds a professorial chair at the University of Central Lancashire and is clinical lead for violence therapies at a secure forensic psychiatric unit. Jane regularly provides expert witness services in family, criminal and personal injury cases. Her research interests include aggression, psychopathy, personality disorder, self-injurious behaviour and treatment evaluation. She is an accredited EMDR (trauma) therapist who leads a trauma clinic.   Further reading:   John Archer Rowell Huesmann Murray Straus Kaj Bjorkqvist   She also recommended for functional analysis:   Jackson, H.F., Glass, C. & Hope, S. (1987). A functional analysis of recidivistic arson. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 26, 175-185.   And for motivation publications by Richard Ryan and Edward Deci. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Martine Ratcliffe has worked as a forensic psychologist for HM Prison and Probation Service for 20 years. She’s currently the national diversity and inclusion (D&I) lead for the Psychology Services Group. Her passion for D&I has been amplified through her work with children, becoming a mum and from personal experience as a mixed-race woman working within HMPPS. Further Reading: The Lammy Review (2017): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/643001/lammy-review-final-report.pdf Bashe, A., Anderson, S. K., Handelsman, M. M., & Klevansky, R. (2007). An acculturation model for ethics training: The ethics autobiography and beyond. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 38(1), 60–67. https://doi.org/10.1037/0735-7028.38.1.60 Handelsman, Mitch & Gottlieb, Michael & Knapp, Samuel. (2005). Training Ethical Psychologists: An Acculturation Model. Professional psychology, research and practice. 36. 59-65. 10.1037/0735-7028.36.1.59.  Gottlieb, Michael & Handelsman, Mitch & Knapp, Samuel. (2008). Some Principles for Ethics Education: Implementing the Acculturation Model. Training and Education in Professional Psychology. 2. 123-128. 10.1037/1931-3918.2.3.123.  Menakem, R. (2017). My grandmother’s hands. Central Recovery Press. Gross, R. (2010). Psychology: The science of mind and behaviour (6th ed.). Hodder & Stoughton Educational Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Working as a psychologist can be thrilling, rewarding and challenging – and HM Prison and Probation Service are looking for trainees right now! In this special bonus episode, Neil Gredecki from HMPPS Psychology Services explains what they’re looking for, and how to apply. There are 150 traineeships available, and full details are here: https://bit.ly/3ep8nCU Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.