Institute of Criminal Justice Studies

Profile

Qualifications:

• Oxford University Special Diploma in Social Administration (Plater College)
• MA "State, Policy and Social change" (Portsmouth)
• CCETSW Practice Teaching Award (Southampton)
• Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Portsmouth)
• FHEA, MA, Dip Soc Admin, PG (Cert) TLHE

Expertise:

• Practitioner in homelessness, mental health, drug and alcohol issues
• Operational and senior management
• Understanding and working with multiple interacting needs
• Multi agency working
• Substance use and misuse, theory, policy and intervention
• Service user involvement in the planning and delivery of services
• Substance misuse, Addiction, Social exclusion, multi agency working, service user empowerment

Membership of Research Groups/Networks

• Youth and Social Justice Research Group (University of Portsmouth)
  
• Offender Health Research Group (University of Southampton)
• A New Science of Virtues Network (University of Chicago)

Membership of Learned Societies:

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Society for the Study of Addiction
• British Society of Criminology
• The European Society of Criminology

Publications:

• Jennings, P and Pycroft, A 'The Numbers Game - A Systems Perspective on Risk'
  in Pycroft, A and Clift, S (eds) (forthcoming September 2012), Risk and Rehabilitation: The Management and Treatment of Substance Misuse and Mental Health in the Criminal Justice System. Bristol. Policy Press
• Pycroft, A 'The Alcohol Treatment Requirement - Drunk but Compliant'
  in Pycroft, A and Clift, S (eds) (forthcoming September 2012), Risk and Rehabilitation: The Management and Treatment of Substance Misuse and Mental Health in the Criminal Justice System. Bristol. Policy Press
• Pycroft, A 'Rehabilitation in a Post What Works Era: The Possibilities of Co-mimethical Virtue'
  in Pycroft, A and Clift, S (eds) (forthcoming September 2012), Risk and Rehabilitation: The Management and Treatment of Substance Misuse and Mental Health in the Criminal Justice System. Bristol. Policy Press
• Pycroft, A (2010) ”Complexity, Consensus and Emergence: The Mixed Economy of Service Provision” in Pycroft, A and Gough, D (eds) Multi Agency Working in Criminal Justice: Control and Care in Contemporary Correctional Practice. Bristol. Policy Press.
• Carter, C and Pycroft, A "Getting Out: Offenders in Conservation Work Settings" in Cowe, F, Brayford, J and Deering, J (eds) (2010) What Else works? Creative Work with Offenders Cullompton. Willan
• Pycroft, A "The psychology of addiction: are there more questions than answers?” (2007) in Pakes, F and Winstone, J, Psychology and Crime. Cullompton. Willan."
• Pycroft, A “Too little, too late? Service user involvement and the Probation Service” in Community Justice Matters. No 64 Summer 2006.
• Pycroft, A "A new chance for rehabilitation: multi agency provision and potential under NOMS" in Winstone, J and Pakes, F. (2005). Community Justice: Issues for probation and criminal justice. Cullompton. Willan.
• Book review of  "Offending Behaviour:  Moral reasoning, criminal conduct and the rehabilitation of offenders." by E. Palmer in The International Journal of Police Science and Management. Vol 6 issue 4 Nov. 2004.
  
  Edited Volumes

• "Multi Agency Working in Criminal Justice; Care and Control in Contemporary Correctional Practice" Pycroft, A and Gough, D (eds) (2010). Bristol. Policy Press.
• Pycroft, A and Clift, S (eds) (forthcoming May 2012) Risk and Rehabilitation: The Management and Treatment of Substance Misuse and Mental Health in the Criminal Justice System. Bristol. Policy Press

Monographs:

• Understanding and Working with Substance Misusers (2010). London Sage Publications.
• Pycroft, A, (forthcoming 2013) Key Concepts in Substance Use and Misuse. London. Sage

Conference presentations:

• British Society of Criminology Annual Conference at the University of Wales (2009) paper entitled "Service User Participation, Complex Needs and Hard to Reach Groups."
• With Paul Jennings (IBM UK) at the University of Portsmouth Business School Knowledge Transfer Conference (2009) paper entitled "Conceptualising Risk within Complex Systems."
• With Paul Jennings (IBM UK) at the UK Systems Society Annual Conference at the University of Oxford (2009) paper entitled "Conceptualising Risk within Complex Systems."
• With Claudia Carter (Forest Research) British Society of Criminology annual conference at the University of Huddersfield (2008) paper entitled "Researching Offender and Nature Schemes
• With Claudia Carter (Forest Research)  The Newport Centre for Criminal and Community Justice (University of Wales) conference " Creative Work with Offenders and Other Socially Excluded People " paper entitled "Offender Rehabilitation in Conservation Work Settings"  April 2008
• British Society of Criminology annual conference (2007) at the Manheim Centre for Criminology,London School of Economics. Paper entitled "Working with Complexity - addiction and the criminal justice system.
• Keynote speaker at University of Wales (Newport Centre for Criminal and Community Justice) conference  on “Young People, Drugs and Anti Social Behaviour.”  March 31st 2006. Paper entitled “Can user involvement enhance drug services for young people?”
• British Society of Criminology Annual Conference (2004) at the University of Portsmouth.  Paper entitled “Empowering the Users of the Correctional Services.”

Research activities:

The following projects have been funded by the crime solutions partnership between the University of Portsmouth and the University of Central Lancashire and have been match funded by the organisations involved (to a total of 16k):

• A research project to evaluate the effectiveness of offender and nature work schemes. The research is being carried out in partnership with the Forestry Commission. Working paper: Pycroft, A and Carter, C 'Forestry Work, Good Lives and Desistance from Crime'
• A research project investigating young people with multiple needs, and their perception of the services that they receive. Working paper: Pycroft, A., Wallis, A and Bigg, J 'Service User Participation with Adolescents Who Have Complex Needs'
• Research into the effectiveness of the Alcohol Treatment Requirement in one probation area. Working Paper: Pycroft, A 'The Implementation and Effectiveness of the ATR in One Probation Area'. See also Pycroft, A (forthcoming May 2012) 'The Alcohol Treatment Requirement - Drunk but Compliant' in Pycroft, A and Clift, S (eds) Risk and Rehabilitation: The Management and Treatment of Substance Misuse and Mental Health in the Criminal Justice System. Bristol. Policy Press

Training, consultancy and knowledge transfer:

• Currently funded by Southampton City NHS to carry out an evaluation of the day detoxification service provided by the Homeless Healthcare Team (Solent NHS Trust).
• In 2009 commissioned to carry out a needs assessment for the implementation of the Integrated Drug Treatment Strategy in a prison for those serving life sentences and indeterminate sentences (19.5k) working paper: Pycroft, A 'A Whole Systems Approach to Harm Reduction in Prison Settings.'
• With Paul Jennings (IBM UK) an ongoing project considering the nature of risk within organisations. See Jennings, P and Pycroft, A (forthcoming May 2012) 'The Numbers Game: A Complex Systems Perspective on Risk Assessment' in Pycroft, A and Clift, S (eds) Risk and Rehabilitation: The Management and Treatment of Substance Misuse and Mental Health in the Criminal Justice System. Bristol. Policy Press