Legal, criminological and forensic

Working with offenders - The ins and outs

Graham Towl, Head of Psychology for the Prison Service and the National Probation Service, on working towards an effective partnership.

18 May 2002

There is a strong case for both the National Probation Service and HM Prison Service looking to areas of applied psychology to help deliver services in partnership. Forensic psychology is not the only area of applied psychology that is potentially germane. We now need to acknowledge the potential contributions of occupational, health, counselling, clinical and educational psychologists in both organisations.

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