Journal of Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour

Practice, policy and research

Editors: Colin Dale and Debra Moore
Frequency: Quarterly
Print ISSN: 2042-0927
Online ISSN: 2042-8693

Aims and scope
This unique new Journal is aimed at everyone who is involved in supporting people with learning disabilities who are involved (or in danger of becoming involved) with the criminal justice or forensic health systems. The Journal offers information on the latest research and policy, as well as practical advice about working effectively with these groups who often fall in the gap between mainstream learning disability and forensic services.

The content of the Journal of Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour is relevant to all those working in the public and independent health and social care sectors, and the criminal justice and forensic health systems.

Coverage includes the following:
• the nature of learning disabilities and offending behaviour –
including recent research, epidemiological issues, the nature
and type of offending and cross-cultural comparisons
• treatment approaches – what works?
• diagnostic issues
• risk assessment and management
• the needs and views of service users and carers.

Readership
Journal of Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour is vital for everyone involved in learning disabilities and offending behaviour. It is a hugely valuable source of information for practitioners, managers, policy-makers, academics, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, nurses, students, carers and people who use services, as well as NHS and primary care trusts, universities and colleges, local authorities, probation services, learning disability services, HM prisons, the Police and the voluntary sector.

Editors
Colin Dale Caring Solutions (UK) Ltd, UK
Debra Moore Debra Moore Associates, UK

Editorial board members
Douglas Boer, The University of Waikato, New Zealand
Eddie Chaplin, Estia Centre, UK
Janet Cobb, Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities, UK
Graham Durcan, Centre for Mental Health, UK
Tony Fowles, Freelance Criminal Justice Consultant, UK
Mark Freeman, Offender Health, UK
Alison Giraud-Saunders, Independent Consultant, UK
Susan Hayes, University of Sydney, Australia
Ken Holland, British Institute of Learning Disabilities, UK
Pamela Inglis, Northumbria University, UK
Glynis Murphy, Tizard Centre, University of Kent, UK
Jo Poynter, Valuing People Support Team, UK
Val Reed, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Phil Shackell, North West Specialist Commissioning Team, UK
Jenny Talbot, Prison Reform Trust, UK
John L Taylor, Northumbria University and Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust, UK
Paul Thornton, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust, UK

Abstracting and indexing
Journal of Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour is abstracted/indexed in: British Nursing Index; Educational Research Abstracts and Social Care Online.

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... aimed at everyone who is involved in supporting people with learning disabilities who are involved (or in danger of becoming involved) with the criminal justice or forensic health systems.