Free access: British Journal of Forensic Practice

This week only, the British Journal of Forensic Practice is offering open access to all of its content. The journal covers a wide range of criminal justice topics, making it of potential interest for forensic practitioners, correctional professionals, academics, and those in allied fields. From my brief perusal, the journal appears to offer a refreshingly humanistic perspective, focusing on rehabilitation and critical analysis of current approaches. A few examples of recent articles and issues that caught my eye, all accessible this week (I've included links):

• Qualitative viewpoints in forensic practice – a special themed issue

• Treatment in forensic practice – a special themed issue, focused mainly on sex offenders

• Including the excluded: high security hospital user perspectives on stigma, discrimination, and recovery by Anna Williams, Estelle Moore, Gwen Adshead, Anthony McDowell, James Tapp

• Ganging up on gangs: why the gang intervention industry needs an intervention by James Densley

• How does the delivery of multisystemic therapy to adolescents and their families challenge practice in traditional services in the Criminal Justice System? by Zoë Ashmore, Simone Fox

• Is offender rehabilitation a form of punishment? by Tony Ward

• The alcohol treatment needs of violent and non-violent prisoners by Nicola Bowes, Adele Sutton, Serena Jenkins, Mary McMurran 

• Assessing the functions of self-harm behaviours for dangerous and severely personality disordered males in a high secure hospital by Jen Gallagher, Kerry Sheldon

• Reducing prisoner vulnerability and providing a means of empowerment: evaluating the impact of a Listener Scheme on the Listeners by Rani Dhaliwal, Julia Harrower

• Attitudes towards male and female sex offenders: a comparison of forensic staff, prison officers and the general public in Northern Ireland by Caitriona Higgins, Carol Ireland

• What we know about men who download child abuse images by Kerry Sheldon 

• Good Lives sexual offender treatment for mentally disordered offenders by Theresa A. Gannon, Tracy King, Helen Miles, Lona Lockerbie, Gwenda M. Willis

And that, folks, is just the tip of the iceberg. You'll need to browse the content yourself (HERE) to find the articles of special resonance with you.