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Unique to Scotland, the Order for Lifelong Restriction (OLR) is a true lifelong sentence. It’s put in place to protect the public from the risk of harm an individual is assessed to present. In this article, we look at the start of the OLR process – the Risk Assessment Order.

Our Acting Effective Practice Lead, Julie, recently visited Florence to attend Eurocrim and learn all about the ways in which agencies across the world are approaching reintegration.

Lucy McDonald is Head of Scotland for SafeLives, we're delighted to welcome her to the RMA blog this month.

We’re pleased to welcome the University of Glasgow’s Dr Rachel McPherson and Mr Richard Kjellgren to the RMA blog to look at patterns of intimate partner violence within the Order for Lifelong Restriction population

Our OLR Lead, Ross Pollock, tells us about the most recent Accredited Assessor Day at the RMA.

Our Development Lead, Rachel Webb, recently travelled to Canada to attend two international conferences.

Geoff, our Head of Development, writes about our new research publication, ‘The Offending Behaviour of Those Sentenced to the Order for Lifelong Restriction’

Our Head of OLR, Debbie Campbell, tells us about her trip to Ottowa to attend the ISRA World Meeting 2022

Dr Rebecca Wagstaff is our Research Officer and has been with the RMA, part of our Development team, since 2020. Later in 2022-23 we’re looking forward to publishing…

We're thrilled to welcome Monica to discuss recent developments in frameworks for assessing the risk of terrorist offending.