Overview
This intensive one-day course will focus on the role of psychological practitioners in two key tasks in relation to the major police investigations on which they may consult. First, the course will examine the role of psychological practitioners assisting law enforcement personnel in understanding the perpetrators of violence and different kinds of violent acts. This topic will inform the support provided to police in developing investigative and interview strategies with a person or persons of concern. Second, the course will examine techniques in offence analysis, focusing on perpetrator behaviours and decision-making as well as potential motives. This topic will inform risk and threat assessment activities to be implemented either by police or mental health and criminal justice professionals.
Additionally, because many of the psychological practitioners interested in this course may also be engaged in such work, we will examine briefly some of the challenges of undertaking therapeutic interventions with detained clients, focusing on their offending behaviour (index offence work). This topic will inform the design, implementation and evaluation of therapeutic work that may make a difference to a client’s risk management and eventual request for release from custody or discharge from psychiatric care.
The course will work through each topic in turn, building knowledge and skills through each part. Case studies will be used as a vehicle for illustrating key points and providing examples that attendees can use to think of the potential relevance of the topics discussed to their own practice.
Learning Outcomes
- To identify and discuss techniques in the analysis of violent behaviour, which can be translated into useful guidance for police colleagues working in active criminal investigations
- To identify and discuss techniques in the indirect assessment of potential violence perpetrators, which can also be translated into useful guidance for police colleagues working in active criminal investigations
- To explore options and challenges in undertaking index offence analysis work with convictions for extremely harmful behaviour
Presenter(s)
Dr. Caroline Logan
About the presenter(s)
Dr Caroline Logan is a Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist. She has worked as a lead consultant in high and medium secure forensic mental health services in the north of England, and as a consultant/contractor with law enforcement and threat assessment and management agencies in the UK and elsewhere for almost 30 years. She is also an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester (from 2009, and before that, a senior research fellow then an honorary research fellow at the University of Liverpool between 1996-2009) and a scientist at the Kompetansesenter at Helse Bergen in Norway. Dr Logan has ongoing clinical and research interests in personality disorder and psychopathy, mental disorder and comorbidity, risk and threat assessment and management, violent extremism, and forensic clinical interviewing, and she has a special interest in gender issues in the range of offending and harmful behaviour. She has published five books and over 80 articles on these subjects, including Violent Extremism: A Handbook of Risk Assessment and Management, a book co-edited with Randy Borum and Paul Gill, published in November 2023, and a second edition of Managing Clinical Risk: A Guide to Effective Practice, co-edited with Lorraine Johnstone, published in December 2023. She has commenced work on a new book on violent extremism in youth with Professors Borum and Gill, and a book on personality problems and risk is in the pipeline.
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