Notes on Contributors

Dean Barrow began his career at HMP Holloway in February 2004, four years after completing an LLB (Hons) in law. Throughout his time in the prison service he has worked in a number of different areas including remands, health care, equalities, young offenders, and segregation. Following the closure of HMP Holloway, he was transferred to HMP Downview and continues to work in the female estate.

Bernd Borchard is a psychological psychotherapist, lecturer, and supervisor. He acts as an expert witness on questions of culpability and the risk of relapse. From 2009 to 2015 he built up the forensic-psychiatric department in a correctional facility in Zurich. Bernd Borchard headed the Risk and Intervention Clarification Unit in Zurich, and he was responsible for evaluation, development, and quality assurance at the Office of Corrections. He is Chairman of the Standing Examination Board for the Master of Advanced Studies in Forensic Psychology at the University of Konstanz, and co-owner of a practice for assessments, supervision, and workshops in Konstanz, Zurich, and Hamburg.

Joanna Bourke is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and Principal Investigator of a Wellcome Trust funded project entitled SHaME (Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters), which explores psychiatric and medical aspects of sexual violence (). She is the author of fourteen books and over 100 scholarly articles, mainly focusing on violence, gender, pain, and what it means to be human.

Jessica Collier is an art psychotherapist and clinical supervisor who has worked with violent offenders in prisons, secure hospitals and a modified therapeutic community, and continues to work for the NHS with women in prison. Jessica has lectured and published widely on forensic art psychotherapy. She is co-convenor of the Forensic Arts Therapies Advisory Group and co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy. Jessica has contributed to the training of art psychot