By Prof. Pamela Taylor CBE The 2026 Annual National Forensic Psychiatry Trainee Conference took place in London on 24th May and was exciting for me because Crime in Mind had offered a prize for the best poster featuring new research. Five… Continue reading
An end in sight? – Expert recommendations on Indefinite sentences for Public Protection (IPPs). IPPs followed from good intentions but turned out to be bad law, inadequately supported and harmful. Is an appropriately informed solution finally in sight? A Howard… Continue reading
David Farrington died in November 2024 1. His loss will be widely and keenly felt, but his productivity through a lifetime’s devotion to understanding pathways to offending will live on. We are so sad to lose him, and yet his… Continue reading
by Pamela Taylor, Co-chair of Crime In Mind. This article appears in our latest newsletter (Winter 2024) which can be downloaded here. After my first ever research project – a randomised controlled trial of ECT for schizophrenia – research in prisons seemed… Continue reading
Matthias Burghart and Sophia Backhaus have just published their ‘umbrella review’ of the impact of family violence on mental health1. We are excited because this was partly supported by one of our first Seed Corn Grants. It has been a… Continue reading
This year Crime in Mind once again sponsored a prize for the best emergent research presentation by a higher trainee in forensic psychiatry, given at their annual conference. Cosmina Cross and Laur Evans, last year’s runners up for the prize,… Continue reading
We are delighted when we get feedback on our webinars. After the webinar from our Scottish colleagues, about approaches to risk management of complex offenders in Scotland, we had some particularly important comments, in part questioning the focus. This was… Continue reading
When an individual kills others and then themself, the rest of us tend to presume the perpetrator must have been mentally ill. Alexis Theodorou and colleagues have just published their investigation of the extent to which this is true1. They… Continue reading
In December 2023, HM Prison and Probation Service and the NHS published a welcome and ambitious document The Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway1. This sets out the joint vision for psychologically informed services for offenders with a diagnosis of personality… Continue reading
The Suicide prevention in England: 5-year cross-sector strategy has just been published1. For hospital inpatients, the good news is that, based on National Confidential Inquiry2 figures, ‘collective efforts to improve patient safety led to a 35% fall in suicides in… Continue reading