openalexFrontiers in Psychiatry2026-07-23
Access to the women’s Offender Personality Disorder Pathway—making criteria more gender-responsive
Aisling O’Meara, Laura d’Cruz, Ruth Horry, Carine Lewis, Jason Davies
Introduction The Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway for England and Wales provides specialist services to men and women with complex mental health needs, which are linked to serious and harmful offending. However, criteria for accessing such services have relied on pract…