Working With Offenders
The Correctional Services Accreditation Panel (CSAP)
The Correctional Services Accreditation Panel (CSAP) became a non-statutory body on 1 May 2008. Panel members are independent individuals respected in their field for their experience of offending behaviour programmes, the principles of effective practice and/or accreditation.
They perform an important function in assisting the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) to achieve its aim of reducing re-offending through the development and implementation of high quality offender programmes. The objective of the accreditation system is to provide a structure for improving the quality of effective interventions in England and Wales. It aims to find the balance between ensuring a consistency in practice and an adherence to standards with sufficient flexibility to respond to circumstances and to allow for professional input. For further information about the role of CSAP, Panel member’s responsibilities and the accreditation process please click here.
Panel membership from 1 May 2008
- Professor Friedrich Losel, Director of Criminology, Cambridge University
- Professor Donald Grubin, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, St Nicolas Hospital, Newcastle NHS Trust
- Professor Michael Gossop, Head of Research, Drugs and Alcohol Addiction Services, Maudsley Hospital
- Professor Mike Maguire, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Dr William Murphy, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Tennessee
- Dr Frank Porporino, Senior Partner, T3 Associates and Consulting Inc, Canada
- Dr Barbara Rawlings, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Manchester University
- Dr Stanley Renwick – former Head of Clinical Psychology, Ministry of Defence. Currently Director of Research, Personality Disorder Directorate, Care Principles Ltd.
- Dr Lynn Stewart – National Manager, Living Skills, Counter point and Family Violence Prevention programmes, Correctional Service, Canada.
- Dr Linda Blud – Independent forensic psychology consultant. Member of the Scottish and Canadian Accreditation Panel.
- Eric Cullen – Former Consultant Forensic Psychologist and Senior Research Fellow (Hon.) Depart. Psych., University of Birmingham
- Gerald Gaes – Independent criminal justice consultant. Formerly Director of Research for Federal Bureau of Prisons in the UK Department of Justice. Consultant to the Correctional Services of Canada on research methodology.
- Dr David Thornton – Treatment Director for the Department of Health and Family Services, Wisconsin, USA and Adjunct Professor in the department of clinical psychology at Bergen University, Norway.
- Dr Doris Mackenzie – Director, Evaluation Research Group and Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland.
- Professor Faye S Taxman, Administration of Justice Department and Advancing Correctional Excellence, George Mason University
Nominated members:
- Steve Goode (Regional Offender Manager, NOMS)
- Alan Scott (Area Manager, NOMS)
- Dr Gemma Harper (Analytical Services, Criminal Justice Group)
If you would like to know more about the work of the Panel please contact Carole Wham by telephone (020 7217 5714) or by e-mail (Carole.Wham@justice.gsi.gov.uk)
Last update: Monday, December 22, 2008