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First issue publishing
April 2010

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.

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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
Eddie Chaplin Estia Centre, UK
Janet Cobb Consultant, UK
Graham Durcan Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, UK
Tony Fowles Freelance Criminal Justice Analyst, UK
Mark Freeman Offender Health, UK
Alison Giraud-Saunders Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities, UK
Susan Hayes University of Sydney, Australia
Ken Holland British Institute of Learning Disabilities, UK
Pamela Inglis Northumbria University, UK
Jo Poynter Valuing People Support Team – CSIP, UK
Phil Shackle North West Specialist Commissioning Team, UK
Jenny Talbot The Prison Reform Trust, UK
Paul Thornton Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust, UK
Val Reed Anglia Ruskin University, 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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