The "double whammy" of addiction and prison:recovering without recovery

Abstract

My name is Andi Brierley, and I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Investigation and Policing at Leeds Trinity University (LTU). I have been in Higher Education for around 3 years as I write this chapter and prior to this role, I was a Senior Teacher on the Custodial Leadership MSc delivered by LTU in partnership with the Unlocked Graduates. This is a graduate scheme, and the students are required to work as front-line prison officers while studying for the MSc degree. Before starting that role in September 2021, I worked in the field of Youth Justice with children and young people receiving Youth Justice disposals from 2008. This started through working with children sentenced for the most serious offences and in the latter part of my Youth Justice journey within a strategic role safely reducing children in the care of the Local Authority encountering the Youth Justice System. This role was responding to various independent reports highlighting an overrepresentation of those who experience care within the criminal justice system and how it can impair health and social outcomes