The Forensic Psychology Podcast

Does fairness matter in prison?

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Flora Fitzalan Howard is a Registered Forensic Psychologist working as a researcher and evidence-based practice specialist within Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service’s Evidence-Based Practice team.  She worked in prisons as a practitioner psychologist before specialising in research and evidence-based practice.  Her research interests have focussed on procedural justice, prison culture, self-harming behaviour in prison, and developing the rehabilitative potential of prison processes (such as recall to prison, electronic monitoring, and disciplinary adjudications).

Dr Helen Wakeling is a Chartered Research Psychologist, working as a researcher and evidence-based practice specialist within the Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service’s Evidence-Based Practice Team. She has worked as a researcher within HMPPS for over 18 years, specialising originally in research into sexual offending, and the use of psychometrics with men convicted of sexual offences undertaking an intervention. More recently her research interests include procedural justice, prison culture, drug taking in prisons and psychosocial maturity.

Recommended reading:

• MacQueen & Bradford (2017). Where did it all go wrong? Implementation failure—and more—in a field experiment of procedural justice policing.  Journal of Experimental Criminology, 13, 321-345