The Centre seeks to discover the best ways to deliver healthcare in the justice environment and secure health settings. It brings together research, policy, and practice in the fields of mental and general health care and criminal justice, through an innovative multi-disciplinary approach.

It carries out clinically focused and practically designed research to provide the evidence base to build a new generation of services. The centre supports education and training programmes (such as the Knowledge and Understanding Framework for people with personality disorders) that appeal to a multi-disciplinary audience, bringing agencies together from across health and criminal justice.

To deliver our mission, the Centre has a comprehensive work programme.

• Intervention and assessment studies
• Secondary data-based economic studies and evaluations
• Organisational development policy and resource use
• Clinical research methodology and research practice
• Studies of secure environments and clinical and design considerations of new builds
• Youth justice and early intervention
• Evidence based policing