Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour This is an RSS file. You can use it to subscribe to this data in your favourite RSS reader or to display this data on your own website or blog.

Forio: a Swiss treatment program for young sex offenders with intellectual disabilities
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour,Volume 9, Issue 3, Page 117-127, September 2018. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a description of a Swiss outpatient group therapy for adolescent and young men with intellectual disabilities who have sexually offended. Design/methodology/approach The findings from two studies that examined the treatment independently from one another are brought together. These combine the qualitative methods of document analysis of programme tools, overt participant observations of treatment sessions and semi-structured interviews with programme designers. Fin...
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour - November 14, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Forio: a Swiss treatment program for young sex offenders with intellectual disabilities
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a description of a Swiss outpatient group therapy for adolescent and young men with intellectual disabilities who have sexually offended. Design/methodology/approach The findings from two studies that examined the treatment independently from one another are brought together. These combine the qualitative methods of document analysis of programme tools, overt participant observations of treatment sessions and semi-structured interviews with programme designers. Findings At the heart of Forio trea...
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour - November 14, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

A community EQUIP treatment group
This study provides some evidence that EQUIP can be adapted to suit this population. Social implications The availability of community interventions may, over time, decrease the need for detention in inpatient setting s. This is in line with the transforming care agenda. Originality/value This is the first published research into use of EQUIP in the community with adult participants with intellectual disabilities. (Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour)
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour - August 7, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Examining the utility of the Stages of Change model for working with offenders with learning disabilities
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the Stages of Change (SOC) model can be applied to working with offenders with learning disabilities (LD), and furthermore, to determine if it might be efficacious for this approach to be incorporated into a wider service model for this population. Design/methodology/approach This paper reports on the results of a consultation to a specialist forensic LD service in the South West of England. A two-pronged approach was taken to consult to the service in relation to the research question...
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour - August 1, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Case study illustrations of a psychological treatment pathway in a secure intellectual disability service
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe in detail the treatment pathway utilised in a male medium and low secure intellectual disability (ID) service. Over the preceding five years, service users have followed the outlined treatment pathway. The current paper offers case study material to illustrate the care pathway. Design/methodology/approach The treatment pathway is described and two case examples are provided, illustrating participation in the pathway. Evaluative data are provided on length of hospitalisation, direction of pathway ...
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour - August 1, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Examining the utility of the Stages of Change model for working with offenders with learning disabilities
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the Stages of Change (SOC) model can be applied to working with offenders with learning disabilities (LD), and furthermore, to determine if it might be efficacious for this approach to be incorporated into a wider service model for this population. Design/methodology/approach This paper reports on the results of a consultation to a specialist forensic LD service in the South West of England. A two-pronged approach was taken to consult to the service in relation to the research question...
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour - August 1, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Case study illustrations of a psychological treatment pathway in a secure intellectual disability service
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe in detail the treatment pathway utilised in a male medium and low secure intellectual disability (ID) service. Over the preceding five years, service users have followed the outlined treatment pathway. The current paper offers case study material to illustrate the care pathway. Design/methodology/approach The treatment pathway is described and two case examples are provided, illustrating participation in the pathway. Evaluative data are provided on length of hospitalisation, direction of pathway ...
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour - August 1, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Reflections on introducing a Leavers ’ Preparation Group in an intellectual disability secure service
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on the introduction of a Leavers ’ Preparation Group in an Intellectual Disability (ID) Secure Service. In the context of reductions in ID inpatient beds and reductions in restrictive practices, discharge and transfers out of hospital settings are increasing. The current group was established to provide support and preparation fo r service users as they approach discharge/transfer from hospital. The current paper provides example outcome data and reflects on the experience and learning points in d...
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour - July 27, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Rare instances of individuals with autism supporting or engaging in terrorism: a reply
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour,Volume 9, Issue 1, Page 64-66, March 2018. (Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour)
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour - March 21, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Rare instances of individuals with autism supporting or engaging in terrorism: a response to Lino Faccini and Clare Allely
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour,Volume 9, Issue 1, Page 59-63, March 2018. (Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour)
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour - March 21, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Keep Safe: the development of a manualised group CBT intervention for adolescents with ID who display harmful sexual behaviours
This study is innovative and valuable given the recognition that research and practice is significantly lacking in this area. (Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour)
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour - March 21, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Social cognition in intellectually disabled male criminal offenders: a deficit in affect perception?
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour,Volume 9, Issue 1, Page 32-48, March 2018. Purpose 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 assessing ID and fractionating social cognitive skills. The purpose of this paper is to review and report current findings and set an agenda for future research in social perception, social inference and social problem solving in ID violent offenders. Design/methodology/approach The literature is reviewed on comorbidity of criminal offendin...
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour - March 21, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Working with intellectually disabled autistic individuals – a qualitative study using repertory grids
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour,Volume 9, Issue 1, Page 22-31, March 2018. Purpose 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 adults with intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder, based on their experiences of working within their roles within a residential care setting. Design/methodology/approach Care professionals and providers working at a community autism and intellectual disability service were interviewed to ascertain their experiences of work...
Source: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour - March 21, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research