Notes on Contributors

Regi T. Alexander is Consultant Psychiatrist at St. Johns House, Norfolk, and Research Lead Consultant for Adults with Developmental Disorders at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, UK. Dr. Alexander is the Editor of the Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability and was a member of the UK National Institute of Healthcare and Excellence (NICE) Guidelines Development Group on mental health problems in people with learning disabilities.

Salma Ali is a Liaison & Diversion Practitioner specializing in working with people with intellectual disability. She is also a Forensic Psychologist in Training and has worked with young people and adults with mental health, substance misuse, and intellectual disabilities for over 15 years. Currently she works within Liaison & Diversion services at Central & North‐West London Foundation Trust, and has been integral in the development of the RAPID screening tool, and with the implementation of screening and assessment pathway for offenders with intellectual disability. She has spoken at a number of conferences and had a number of publications within this area, and continues to find ways of ensuring that the needs of offenders with intellectual disabilities are appropriately identified and addressed.

Danyal Ansari is a Clinical Associate in Applied Psychology at The Universities of Dundee and Stirling, and is employed with NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde. His work focuses on providing cognitive behavioral therapy for individuals experiencing common mental health problems. He has previously worked with individuals who have intellectual and developmental disability and autism where he provided clinical and forensic input to the service.

Nigel Beail is Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Professional Lead for Psychological Services with South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, UK. He is also Professor and Clinical Lecturer at the Clinical Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology at the University of Sheffield. He has published extensively on practice‐based research from his clinical work.

Susan E. Breckon is a Clinical Psychologist with Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust, UK. She works clinically in the rehabilitation of patients with intellectual disabilities and complex developmental disorders who are detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 because of offending behavior and mental health problems. Her work focuses on a formulation‐based approach to risk management and care planning at the point of discharge from secure services.

Warren Brookbanks is Professor of Criminal Law and Justice Studies and Director of the Centre for Non‐Adversarial Justice at the Auckland University of Technology Law School. He has coauthored or edited books on forensic psychiatry and law, unfitness to stand trial, criminal justice, and therapeutic jurisprudence. In recent years has undertaken research for the New Zealand, English and Scottish Law Commissions, the New Zealand Ministry of Health, and the former Mental Health Commission. He was a founding Trustee of the Odyssey House Trust (NZ), a former President of the Australia and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL), and is currently chair of the Oakley Mental Health Foundation Trust Board.

Verity Chester has a background in forensic psychology and is a Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry at St Johns House, Norfolk, UK and a PhD Candidate at the University of East Anglia where she is researching the offending behavior of people with intellectual or developmental disabilities. She also coordinates the Clinical Research Group in Forensic and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Isabel C. H. Clare is a Consultant Clinical & Forensic Psychologist working in health services research with the NIHR CLAHRC (Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research & Care) East of England at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, and in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK. She has been a clinical academic throughout her career, with both her clinical work and her research focusing particularly on the assessment, treatment, and support of people with intellectual disabilities and/or other neurodisabilities whose behavior has, or could, bring them into contact with the criminal justice system. With colleagues, she has carried out many grant‐funded research studies in these and related areas and has published extensively.

Leam A. Craig is a Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist and Partner at Forensic Psychology Practice Ltd. He is Professor (Hon) of Forensic Psychology at the University of Birmingham and visiting Professor of Forensic Clinical Psychology at Birmingham City University, UK. He is a Chartered and Registered [Forensic and Clinical] Psychologist. Dr. Craig is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the Academy of Social Sciences and recipient of the Senior Academic Award by the Division of Forensic Psychology. His practice includes services to forensic adult mental health and learning disability hospitals, prison, and probation services and he currently works as a consultant to the National Probation Service on the Offenders with Personality Disorder Pathway. He chairs the British Psychological Society Expert Witness Advisory Group. Dr. Craig has over 90 publications including 10 books and he is a series editor for the What Works in Offender Rehabilitation book series for Wiley Blackwell.

P. Ann Dirks‐Linhorst is Professor of Criminal Justice Studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, in the US. She previously served as Forensic Director for the Missouri Department of Mental Health. Her research interests include the intersection of the mental health and criminal justice systems.

Fergus Douds is a Consultant Psychiatrist in intellectual disability and a general adult psychiatrist. His special interest is in forensic intellectual disability issues. Dr. Douds is employed at The State Hospital, Carstairs in Scotland, UK with responsibility for high secure intellectual disability services for Scotland and Northern Ireland and is lead clinician for the Scottish Forensic Network (Intellectual Disability).

Ian Freckelton is a Queen’s Counsel in full‐time practice as a barrister throughout Australia. He is Professorial Fellow of Law and Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne, and Adjunct Professor of Forensic Medicine at Monash University, La Trobe University, Queensland University of Technology, and Auckland University of Technology. He is the Editor of the Journal of Law and Medicine and the Editor‐in‐Chief of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. He is a Life Member and former President of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL). He has authored over 40 books and more than 500 peer reviewed articles.

Scott Galloway is a Consultant Chartered Clinical and Practitioner Psychologist and was the Clinical Director and Lead Psychologist for the Central & North‐West London Foundation Trust Learning Disabilities Services for 10 years. Dr. Galloway has worked for 24 years in the field of intellectual disabilities, working in and managing both community and specialist inpatient assessment and treatment services for people with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, mental illness, personality disorders, and challenging or violent behavior, including those with a forensic history. He has recently worked on the development of the RAPID screening tool as part of the establishment of the screening and assessment service for offenders with intellectual disability.

Beverley Garrigan is a PhD student at the Department of Clinical Psychology, University of East Anglia, UK. Her PhD focuses on moral decision‐making in typically developing adolescents and those with acquired brain injuries. She has a BSc in Psychology from the University of Manchester and an MSc in Applied Forensic Psychology from the University of York.

Gina Gómez de la Cuesta is a Specialist Clinical Psychologist in Cambridge, UK. She did her PhD at the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, UK under the supervision of Professor Simon Baron Cohen and Dr. Ayla Humphrey. She has set up Bricks for Autism, running training courses for professionals in how to use LEGO® in social skills groups for children on the autism spectrum. Currently she is involved with the NIHR‐funded I‐SOCIALISE trial evaluating the effectiveness of LEGO® based therapy in schools with Professor Barry Wright, York University.

Nicola S. Gray is a Chartered Clinical and Forensic Psychologist. Currently she is Professor of Psychology at Swansea University, UK and Director of the Welsh Applied Risk Research Network (WARRN). She received her PhD from the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London and has worked within the NHS and Cardiff University before her present posts. Dr. Gray’s research interests are in risk assessment and safety planning, psychopathy, personality disorder, sexual offending, and neuropsychology. She regularly trains professionals on structured professional judgment for the assessment of future risk and management and other schemes for risk management. She has published widely in the areas of risk assessment, psychopathy, implicit cognitions, and schizophrenia.

Dorothy Griffiths is a Professor in the Child and Youth Studies Department and the Centre for Applied...