Women with Mental Health & Wellbeing Needs in the Criminal Justice System Forensic Mental Health Practitioner Service – Women’s Services 1
Women with Mental Health & Wellbeing Needs
in the Criminal Justice System
Forensic Mental Health Practitioner Service –
Women’s Services1
Introductions
Workshop Content
Any questions?
Welcome!
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How we work to support vulnerable defendants and offenders
Mental Health provision in Probation Court Liaison and Diversion mental health
provision Earlier identification in police station liaison
and diversion services Dedicated services for Women
Partnerships
Together’s Forensic Mental Health Practitioner Service
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Health and social care inequalities CJ involvement is only one of poor outcomes
Issues facing women in CJS – Delegates experience?
Dedicated services for Women in the Criminal Justice SystemWhy women – only services?
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What is your experience of WiCJS coming to the attention of MH Services?
How we work in Courts Working in a gender-appropriate and a Trauma – Informed way
Links to accommodation partners
Together’s model of working with women defendants
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On your chairs you have found cards
We will now go through a few statements
If you agree – indicate by lifting the GREEN card
If you disagree – use the RED card
Quizz
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In the last 15 years, the number of women in prison has more or less remained
the same
#1
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Women commit a different range of offences from men. They
commit more acquisitive crime and have a lower involvement in
serious violence, criminal damage and professional crime.
However, proportionately, more women than men are remanded
in custody
#2
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The cost of keeping a woman in prison for 1 year is £23,600,
while the cost of a Community Order is
just under half of that.
#3
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51% of women in prison have mental health needs
and 32% of women in prison have a
long-standing illness
#4
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Almost 7 in 10 women in prison reported committed the offence(s) while under the influence of illegal
drugs and/or in order to obtain money to buy drugs
#5
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48% of women in prison reported having committed offences to
support someone else’s drug use
#6
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Women in prison self-harm twice as often as men in prison
#7
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Women with histories of violence and abuse are over represented in
the criminal justice system: More than 50% of women in
prison have experienced domestic violence;
1 in 3 has experienced sexual abuse
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30% of women in prison lose their accommodation while in prison
#9
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18,000 children are separated every year from their mothers, who are women with the chaotic homes lives, severe poverty and
who offend
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Sources:• Ministry of Justice (2013). Gender differences in substance
misuse and mental health amongst prisoners: Results from the Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction (SPCR) longitudinal cohort study of prisoners.
• Ministry of Justice (2011). Statistics on Women and the Criminal Justice System.
• Home Office (2007). The Corston Report: Review of women with particular vulnerabilities in the Criminal Justice System.
• Ministry of Justice (2012). A Distinct Approach: A guide to working with Women in the Criminal Justice System.
• Together for Mental Wellbeing (2013): A Common Sense Guide to working with women with health and wellbeing needs in the criminal justice system.
• www.womensbreakout.org.uk• www.womeninprison.org.uk
Same treatment does not result in equal outcomes
An important point
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Think in the context of trauma
Think holistically
And another one!
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We will work in groups
You all have the same case study
Identify the Issues discussion in groups
Feedback to wider group
Case Study
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Now consider this client’s presentation and needs in the context
of experiences of abuse and
complex trauma
Think “trauma”
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Each group has a different outcome for the case to consider
All of them are realistic
What are your thoughts?
Case Scenarios
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Frankie ClaymanWomen’s FMHP at Thames Magistrates Court
Eva RoussouProject Coordinator/ Women’s Lead
Forensic Mental Health Practitioner Service
Thank you!
Evaluation Forms
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