Crime Blog Posts

• Continued low rate of use of appropriate adults for detainees with learning disabilities and ADHD cause for concern

  17 Feb 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• Needs of people with learning disabilities in criminal justice system not being met

  12 Feb 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• Predictors of outcomes of police involvement in behavioural crises analysed in Canadian study

  27 Jan 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• Effective circles of support recommended for success of strategies to reduce abuse in people with learning disabilities

  08 Jan 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• Prisoners with learning disabilities in Australian study had significantly worse health outcomes than their non-disabled peers

  23 Dec 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Extraneous risk factors play role in differences in self-reporting of anti-social behaviour among adolescents with and without mild to moderate learning disabilities

  20 Dec 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• The largest ever study of self-harm in prisons: prevalence, risk, clustering and subsequent suicide

  16 Dec 2013

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Impoverished personal relationship found to be predictor of offending in adults with learning disabilities

  29 Nov 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Gains made from CBT for men with learning disabilities and sexually abusive behaviour maintained at longer-term follow up

  27 Nov 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Almost half of adults with learning disabilities and autism had been victimised in the community

  22 Nov 2013

  • John Northfield