Providing Personal Computers for Prisoners
Date 12 October 2023
12.10.2023Sally Tilt discusses current research underway on the relationship between prisoners’ use of personal computers.
HEBC Behaviour Change Research Seminar Series: Sally Tilt (Regional Lead Psychologist, HM Prison and Probation Service)
Sally Tilt will discuss current research interested in the relationships between prisoners’ use of personal computers with prisoners’ agency for desistance and prisoners’ wellbeing. The research seminar, titled: “Providing personal computers for prisoners” will take place on 13 March 2024, 5pm-6pm (online)
Seminar summary: In 2016 two prisons introduced a project to provide laptop computers for prisoners with the stated objective of improving rehabilitation. Applying a sequential explanatory mixed methodology, the research initially explored relationships between prisoners’ use of personal computers with prisoners’ agency for desistance and prisoners’ wellbeing. The psychological processes by which relationships occurred were explored using mediation analysis. A qualitative study followed with the aim of understanding the prisoner experience of living with a computer in their cell and to explain the findings from the quantitative study. The research has implications for digital prison policy and adds to the psychological literature on forensic cyberpsychology.
Please contact the SIG Leads Dr Josephine-Chen Wilson (josephine.chen-wilson@northampton.ac.uk) and Associate Professor Dr Kimberley Hill (kimberley.hill@northampton.ac.uk) for more information, including the link to the virtual room when available.
Dr Farini’s academic background is rooted in Social Sciences, with a PhD in Sociology of Intercultural Communication (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 2008), MA in Social Anthropology (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 2005) and a second MA in Social History (University of Bologna, 2002).