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Colm Walsh

Colm Walsh is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. He is Co-Chair of the Forensic Mental Health Research Network and is expert to the EU commission on violence prevention. Colm spent 14 years in practice, managing and commissioning evidence supporting interventions for young people in the justice system and families whose children were at risk out of out-of-home care due to offending and mental health.

Theorising Trauma and Offending

Theorising Trauma and Offending

Despite decades of evidence that justice-involved individuals are disproportionately affected by adversity and present with trauma-related symptoms, the links between trauma and offending and the mechanisms that explain these associations are underdeveloped within the social and psychological sciences.

Theorising Trauma and Offending

Theorising Trauma and Offending

Despite decades of evidence that justice-involved individuals are disproportionately affected by adversity and present with trauma-related symptoms, the links between trauma and offending and the mechanisms that explain these associations are underdeveloped within the social and psychological sciences.