Event 19: Navigating Neurodiversity & the Criminal Justice System

Link In with the Speakers

• Amanda Kirby (Event Chair), CEO of Do-IT Solutions, Emeritus and Honorary Professor

• Carl Mumford, Instructor in Police Education with Anglia Ruskin University

• Keith Fraser, BA, Chair of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales and Local Partnership

• David Breakspear, Ambassador for ADHD LIBERTY

• Professor Stan Gilmour KPM FRSA, CEO, Oxon Advisory

• Professor Huw Williams, PhD, D Clin Psy, FBPpS, Prof in Clinical Neuropsychology

Shared Links & Resources

The following links and resources where shared by attendees of this event. We hope you find this a useful addition to the event recording above.

Shared Links:

• Meet The Neurodisability and Criminal Justice Research Group

• Neurodisability & LEPH SIG by The Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association (GLEPHA)

• Young homeless neurodivergent people feel failed

• National Appropriate Adult Network

• Creased Puddle - Police Neurodiversity Training

• National Autism Trainer Programme (NATP)

• Nobody Made The Connection: The prevalence of neuro-disability in young people who offend by Children’s Commissioner

• From care to custody: the tragic trajectory of crossover kids

• Social Services Are Broken. How We Can Fix Them | Hilary Cottam | TED.com

• United Nations: General comment No. 24 (2019) on children’s rights in the child justice system

• Breaking down barriers: children, neuro-disability and access to justice

• HM Inspectorate of Probation: Neurodiversity Action Plan Update

• HM Inspectorate of Probation: Traumatic Brain Injury

• Children with SEND ‘at higher risk of exclusion’

• Autistic Substance Abuse Network

• Operation Paramount Film Thames Valley Police

Shared Links to Research Articles:

• Understanding the complexity of neurodevelopmental profiles of females in prison by Amanda Kirby, Huw Williams et al.

  Neurodivergence and mental health—Recognising what needs championing and challenging

• School to prison pipelines: Associations between school exclusion, neurodisability and age of first conviction in male prisoners

  Maltreatment-associated neurodevelopmental disorders: a co-twin control analysis

• Repairing Shattered Lives: Brain injury and its implications for criminal justice

• Associations between adverse childhood experiences and acquired brain injury, including traumatic brain injuries, among adults: 2014 BRFSS North Carolina

• ‘Crossover kids’: Offending by child protection-involved youth

• School to prison pipelines: Associations between school exclusion, neurodisability and age of first conviction in male prisoners

• Ensuring the rights of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities within child justice systems