Psychology
Intervention with offenders
Including research on: Dialectical behaviour therapy with female offenders (Claire Nee); Social climate as a mediator of adjustment and response to therapeutic interventions in custodial settings (Adrian Needs); Interventions with young offenders (Claire Nee, Lucy Wainwright); Moral disengagement in young offenders (Llian Alys; Clare Wilson ; Jill Richmond); Processes involved in personal change (Adrian Needs).
Research example
Research is currently being conducted in the young women's unit at HMP Holloway by Adrian Needs and M.Sc. Forensic Psychology students. This is examining the relationship between a number of psychological characteristics (e.g. schemas), behavioural indices (e.g. bullying), staff variables (e.g. stress) and perceptions by both prisoners and staff of the social climate and therapeutic provision.
Recent publications
Burrowes, N. & Needs, A. (2009). Time to contemplate change? A framework for assessing readiness to change in offenders. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 14, 39- 49.
Nee, C. (in press). Residential burglary: methodological and theoretical underpinnings. In J. Brown and E. Campbell (Eds.) Cambridge handbook of forensic psychology. First edition. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press.
Newberry, M. (2010). The experiences of black and minority ethnic (BME) prisoners in a therapeutic community prison. In E. Sullivan & R. Shuker (Eds.). Grendon and the emergence of forensic therapeutic communities: Developments in research and practice (pp. 305-316). London: Wiley.
Ward, T. & Nee, C. (2009). Surfaces and depths: evaluating the theoretical assumptions of cognitive skills programmes. Psychology, Crime and Law (special edition on Offender Cognition and Emotion), 15, 165-182.