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“Falling from a cliff-face" into the necropolitical abyss: experiences of those with sexual convictions leaving prison (2025)
Journal Article
Saunders, L., Jordan, M., & Wright, E. J. (in press). “Falling from a cliff-face" into the necropolitical abyss: experiences of those with sexual convictions leaving prison. Criminology and Criminal Justice,

We reconceptualise the experience of people with sexual convictions leaving prison, as being in, but not of, the community. Release from prison can be characterised as falling into a necropolitical abyss, which entails extreme social exclusion. Via o... Read More about “Falling from a cliff-face" into the necropolitical abyss: experiences of those with sexual convictions leaving prison.

Systematic review of forensic mental health patients on conditional discharge: Part One -- Quantitative findings, methodology, limitations and future research (2025)
Journal Article
Kilbane, S., Zamorano, M., Romero, A., Jordan, M., Jack, D., & Kilbane, S. (in press). Systematic review of forensic mental health patients on conditional discharge: Part One -- Quantitative findings, methodology, limitations and future research. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology,

This paper describes the quantitative findings of a systematic literature review of research on patients on conditional discharge from forensic mental health services in England and Wales (part one of two). Conditional discharge is a frequently used... Read More about Systematic review of forensic mental health patients on conditional discharge: Part One -- Quantitative findings, methodology, limitations and future research.

Systematic review of forensic mental health patients on conditional discharge: Part Two -- Qualitative findings using a desistance lens (2025)
Journal Article
Romero, A., Zamorano, M., Jordan, M., & Tomlin, J. (in press). Systematic review of forensic mental health patients on conditional discharge: Part Two -- Qualitative findings using a desistance lens. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology,

This paper describes the qualitative findings of a systematic literature review of research on patients on conditional discharge from forensic mental health services in England and Wales (part two of two). In total, 15 qualitative and five mixed-meth... Read More about Systematic review of forensic mental health patients on conditional discharge: Part Two -- Qualitative findings using a desistance lens.

Understanding the scale and nature of avoidable healthcare-associated harm for prisoners in England: protocol for a retrospective cross-sectional study (2024)
Journal Article
Carson-Stevens, A., McFadzean, I. J., Purchase, T., Gwyn, S., Hellard, S., Davies, K., Ashcroft, D. M., Avery, A., Campbell, S., Edwards, A., Flynn, S., Hewson, T., Ibrahim, S., Jordan, M., Keers, R. N., Millar, T., Panagioti, M., Sanders, C., Senior, J., Stevenson, C., …Shaw, J. (2024). Understanding the scale and nature of avoidable healthcare-associated harm for prisoners in England: protocol for a retrospective cross-sectional study. BMJ Open, 14(12), Article e085607. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-085607

Introduction Around 1 in 20 patients experience avoidable healthcare-associated harm worldwide. Despite longstanding concerns, there is insufficient information available about the safety of healthcare for prisoners. To address this, this study will... Read More about Understanding the scale and nature of avoidable healthcare-associated harm for prisoners in England: protocol for a retrospective cross-sectional study.

Patient safety in prisons: a multi-method analysis of reported incidents in England (2023)
Journal Article
McFadzean, I. J., Davies, K., Purchase, T., Edwards, A., Hellard, S., Ashcroft, D. M., Avery, A. J., Flynn, S., Hewson, T., Jordan, M., Keers, R., Panagioti, M., Wainwright, V., Walter, F., Shaw, J., & Carson-Stevens, A. (2023). Patient safety in prisons: a multi-method analysis of reported incidents in England. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 116(7), 236-245. https://doi.org/10.1177/01410768231166138

Objectives
Prisoners use healthcare services three times more frequently than the general population with poorer health outcomes. Their distinct healthcare needs often pose challenges to safe healthcare provision. This study aimed to characterise pa... Read More about Patient safety in prisons: a multi-method analysis of reported incidents in England.

“You Want Them Pretty, but Not Too Intelligent!”: Everyday Talk and the Continuum of Men's Violence Against Women in Forensic Institutional Care (2022)
Journal Article
Joyes, E. C., & Jordan, M. (2022). “You Want Them Pretty, but Not Too Intelligent!”: Everyday Talk and the Continuum of Men's Violence Against Women in Forensic Institutional Care. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, Article 886444. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.886444

The forensic setting houses persons with offence convictions who are also in receipt of ongoing mental healthcare–a criminal justice system and healthcare meeting-point. Extant literature highlights how this context is laden with interpersonal and in... Read More about “You Want Them Pretty, but Not Too Intelligent!”: Everyday Talk and the Continuum of Men's Violence Against Women in Forensic Institutional Care.

Mental Healthcare for Survivors of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: A Single Point-in-Time, Internet-Based Scoping Study of Third Sector Provision (2022)
Journal Article
Lazzarino, R., Wright, N., & Jordan, M. (2024). Mental Healthcare for Survivors of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: A Single Point-in-Time, Internet-Based Scoping Study of Third Sector Provision. Journal of Human Trafficking, 10(3), 479-496. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2021.2024043

In response to extreme violence and psychological abuse, survivors of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking can experience complex mental health problems. Despite being a major public health issue, the evidence base for post-slavery mental health supp... Read More about Mental Healthcare for Survivors of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: A Single Point-in-Time, Internet-Based Scoping Study of Third Sector Provision.

Inpatient Institutional Care: The Forced Social Environment (2021)
Journal Article
Joyes, E. C., Jordan, M., Winship, G., & Crawford, P. (2021). Inpatient Institutional Care: The Forced Social Environment. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 690384. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.690384

The landscape of mental health recovery is changing; there have been calls for a shift from the clinical expertise being the dominant voice within mental healthcare towards a more personalised and collaborative service that supports those in need of... Read More about Inpatient Institutional Care: The Forced Social Environment.

Interventions to support the mental health of survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking: A systematic review (2021)
Journal Article
Wright, N., Jordan, M., & Lazzarino, R. (2021). Interventions to support the mental health of survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking: A systematic review. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 67(8), 1026-1034. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207640211039245

Background: Modern slavery is a term which incorporates a range of exploitative situations that involve the violation of human rights and the subjugation of individuals. It presents a significant public health concern. Post-release, survivors of mode... Read More about Interventions to support the mental health of survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking: A systematic review.

Strength- and recovery-based approaches in forensic mental health in late modernity: Increasingly incorporating a human rights angle? (2021)
Journal Article
Tomlin, J., & Jordan, M. (2022). Strength- and recovery-based approaches in forensic mental health in late modernity: Increasingly incorporating a human rights angle?. Social Theory and Health, 9, Article 827124. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-021-00169-x

Forensic mental health care is situated across both criminal justice and healthcare systems and is subject to political, cultural, legal and economic shifts in these contexts. The implementation of strength- and recovery-based models of care should b... Read More about Strength- and recovery-based approaches in forensic mental health in late modernity: Increasingly incorporating a human rights angle?.

Mental health recovery for survivors of modern slavery: grounded theory study protocol (2020)
Journal Article
Wright, N., Hadziosmanovic, E., Dang, M., Bales, K., Brookes, C., Jordan, M., Slade, M., & Lived Experience Research Advisory Board. (2020). Mental health recovery for survivors of modern slavery: grounded theory study protocol. BMJ Open, 10(11), Article e038583. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038583

© 2020 Author(s). Published by BMJ. Introduction Slavery and human trafficking are crimes involving the violation of human rights and refer to exploitative situations where an individual cannot refuse or leave due to threats, coercion or abuse of pow... Read More about Mental health recovery for survivors of modern slavery: grounded theory study protocol.

Capoeira (2020)
Book Chapter
Jordan, M., Wright, E. J., & Purser, A. (2020). Capoeira. In P. Crawford, B. Brown, & A. Charise (Eds.), The Companion to Health Humanities. Routledge

Designing 'Healthy' Prisons for Women: Incorporating Trauma-Informed Care and Practice (TICP) into Prison Planning and Design (2019)
Journal Article
Jewkes, Y., Jordan, M., Wright, S., & Bendelow, G. (2019). Designing 'Healthy' Prisons for Women: Incorporating Trauma-Informed Care and Practice (TICP) into Prison Planning and Design. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(20), Article 3818. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16203818

There has been growing acknowledgment among scholars, prison staff and policy-makers that gender-informed thinking should feed into penal policy but must be implemented holistically if gains are to be made in reducing trauma, saving lives, ensuring e... Read More about Designing 'Healthy' Prisons for Women: Incorporating Trauma-Informed Care and Practice (TICP) into Prison Planning and Design.

Capoeira for beginners: self-benefit for, and community action by, new Capoeiristas (2018)
Journal Article
Jordan, M., Wright, E. J., Purser, A., Grundy, A., Joyes, E., Wright, N., Crawford, P., & Manning, N. (2018). Capoeira for beginners: self-benefit for, and community action by, new Capoeiristas. Sport, Education and Society, 24(7), 756-769. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2018.1441145

Capoeira could be defined as a Brazilian martial art and game to be played. This research explored how capoeira play might be considered to facilitate connectedness amongst newly-recruited persons, plus any other ramifications of capoeira involvement... Read More about Capoeira for beginners: self-benefit for, and community action by, new Capoeiristas.

Institutional and emotion work in forensic psychiatry: detachment and desensitisation (2017)
Book Chapter
Hui, A. M. (2017). Institutional and emotion work in forensic psychiatry: detachment and desensitisation. In H. Middleton, & M. Jordan (Eds.), Mental health uncertainty and inevitability: rejuvenating the relationship between social science and psychiatry. Palgrave Macmillan

Mental health professionals are frequently tasked with balancing care, safety and security. They are obliged to meet professional, organisational and institutional standards. Yet, these roles, expectations and practices are often in contention, whils... Read More about Institutional and emotion work in forensic psychiatry: detachment and desensitisation.

Mental health uncertainty & inevitability (2017)
Book Chapter
Jordan, M. (2017). Mental health uncertainty & inevitability. In H. Middleton, & M. Jordan (Eds.), Mental health uncertainty and inevitability: rejuvenating the relationship between social science and psychiatry. Palgrave Macmillan

"The will's there and the skill's there": prison mental health care (2017)
Book Chapter
Jordan, M. (2017). "The will's there and the skill's there": prison mental health care. In H. Middleton, & M. Jordan (Eds.), Mental health uncertainty and inevitability: rejuvenating the relationship between social science and psychiatry (105-136). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43970-9

This discussion explores some of the data from a social science PhD whose fieldwork took place in a category B, adult male, local and remand prison in England run by Her Majesty’s Prison Service (HMPS). The debate analyses National Health Service (NH... Read More about "The will's there and the skill's there": prison mental health care.

Employment of ex-prisoners with mental health problems, a realistic evaluation protocol (2015)
Journal Article
Hamilton, I. S., Schneider, J., Kane, E., & Jordan, M. (2015). Employment of ex-prisoners with mental health problems, a realistic evaluation protocol. BMC Psychiatry, 15(1), Article 185. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-015-0553-3

Background

Offenders with a mental illness are routinely excluded from vocational services due to their mental health. Employment has shown to be very important in improving mental health, reducing recidivism, and connecting people to society. Thi... Read More about Employment of ex-prisoners with mental health problems, a realistic evaluation protocol.