Evaluations

Good Vibrations: health and wellbeing of older offenders

The purpose of this research project was to explore the older offender population and there engagement with the Good Vibration project. The research found that:

Older offenders also experience the same emotional benefits as the general prison population

Older offender’s comments on additional benefits of the Good Vibrations project for ... read on →

Authors Laura Caulfield, Dean Wilkinson (Bath Spa University; University of Worcester)

Published 2014

Artform Music

Organisation Good Vibrations

Participant type Male Older Offenders

An Evaluation of a Pilot Study of a Literature-Based Intervention with Women in Prison

This study investigated whether ‘Get Into Reading’, a literature-based intervention, which had been established in other custodial contexts and non-custodial mental health settings in the UK transposed to a female prison; HMP Low Newton, and whether any of the benefits identified in custodial and non-custodial contexts elsewhere were reported by ... read on →

Authors Josie Billington, Jude Robinson (University of Liverpool)

Published 2012

Artform Creative Writing

Organisations National Personality Disorder Team, The Reader Organisation, University of Liverpool Project venue HMP Low Newton

Participant type Female Adult Offenders