{"id":3694,"date":"2026-10-06T12:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T11:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmuperu.co.uk\/bjcj\/?page_id=3694"},"modified":"2026-10-07T10:45:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:45:54","slug":"volume-21-issue-2-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mmuperu.co.uk\/bjcj\/volume-21-issue-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume 21 (Issue 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome<\/h2>\n

Beyond Silos: Reframing Mental Health, Trauma and Partnership Across Criminal Justice<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Professor Charlie Brooker, Dr Andrew Fowler, Dr Vickie Barrett & Dr Stephanie Wallace<\/em><\/p>\n

Welcome to this special issue of the British Journal of Community Justice<\/em> on \u2018Probation and mental illness\u2019.<\/p>\n

For much of the past three decades, research at the intersection of criminal justice and mental health has documented a remarkably consistent set of findings. People who come into contact with prisons, probation and community justice services experience disproportionately high levels of mental illness, substance misuse, trauma, neurodevelopmental disorders and social disadvantage. At the same time, criminal justice agencies have increasingly been expected to respond to these needs while continuing to fulfil their primary responsibilities of public protection and reducing reoffending. Despite considerable policy development, many of the structural challenges identified twenty or thirty years ago remain strikingly familiar today. Individuals continue to move between prison, probation, healthcare and community services through fragmented pathways, information sharing remains inconsistent, service thresholds frequently create barriers to access, and practitioners are often required to navigate increasingly complex cases within overstretched systems.<\/p>\n

The papers brought together in this issue offer a timely opportunity to reflect on how the field has evolved. Although the studies originate from different countries, adopt different methodologies and focus on different populations, they converge around a common message: improving outcomes for justice-involved people requires systems that are integrated rather than fragmented, relationships that are collaborative rather than transactional, and approaches that recognise mental health, trauma and social disadvantage as central\u2014not peripheral\u2014to criminal justice practice. Collectively, these papers move beyond identifying problems towards exploring practical solutions capable of reshaping the relationship between criminal justice and health.<\/p>\n

Continued below in foreword…<\/p>\n

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Journal Articles<\/h2>\n

Foreword: Beyond Silos: Reframing Mental Health, Trauma and Partnership Across Criminal Justice<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n

Charlie Brooker, Andrew Fowler, Vickie Barrett & Stephanie Wallace<\/em><\/p>\n

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1) Development of a Partnership Enhancing Treatment Referrals, Pathways and Inter-Agency Communication Between an NHS Mental Health Trust and a Probation Delivery Unit<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n

Andrew Bates, Gwen Bonner, Alan Buckley, Vicki Parkin, Sachana Rai & Jen Culver<\/em><\/p>\n

2) Out of Reach: Mental Healthcare in Approved Premises and the Continuity of Care Gap in England and Wales<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n

\u00a0Peter Marston & Charlie Brooker<\/em><\/p>\n

3) The Prevent Project: Strengthening Mental Health and Suicide Prevention across European Criminal Justice Systems<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n

Carmen-Valeria Baias, Rita Domingos, Eleni Vezali, Stefanos Alevizos, Ana Teresa Marques Silva, Amedeea Enache, Dimitris Georgoulis & Mihaela Pintea Traian<\/em><\/p>\n

4) Youth justice staff and service-users\u2019 experiences of Trauma-Informed Care: A qualitative study<\/a><\/h4>\n

Emma Facer-Irwin, Tu\u011f\u00e7e Dolen, Frances Blumenfeld, Kate Budge & Danny Taggart<\/em><\/p>\n

5) \u201cWe carry it around with us\u201d: Community justice researcher reflections on doing emotionally demanding research<\/a><\/h4>\n

Kerry Ellis Devitt, David Coley & Jess Lawrence\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

6) Specialised Mental Health Supervision: Officer Stress and Implementation<\/a><\/h4>\n

Nicholas Powell, Tonya Van Denise & Frances Chen<\/em><\/p>\n

7) At the interface: Probation. Mental Health Systems and a Public Health Approach to Reoffending<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n

Deborah Irwin<\/em><\/p>\n

8) An Examination of Perceived Social Support and Abusive Parenting <\/a><\/h4>\n

Duygu & Pehlivanoglu\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

9) Addressing the Needs of Those Experiencing Mental Illness in the Probation Services<\/a><\/h4>\n

Coral Sirdfield & Charlie Brooker<\/em><\/p>\n

10) The role of navigators working in criminal justice and mental health settings.\u00a0 Vital cogs in a fragmented system?<\/a><\/h4>\n

Chris Martin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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