HM Prison and Probation Service

Prisoner perceptions of safety across custodial environments

Purpose Maintaining safety in prisons remains an integral priority for authorities as well as being conducive to rehabilitation. However, safety is both an objective and subjective construct. Official data measure tangible, recordable and often more extreme instances of unsafety....

Relational practice in an offender personality disorder partnership: what we might learn from barriers

Purpose The Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) strategy (Joseph and Benefield, 2012) mandates the co-delivery of services between NHS clinicians and criminal justice workers. The strategy assumes that joint responsibility of and a psychologically informed approach to high-risk o...