| ATB |
Attitudes, Thinking and Behaviour, a department of HMP Swaleside tasked with delivering OBPs |
| CALM |
Controlling Anger and Learning to Manage it, an OBP |
| CCRC |
Criminal Cases Review Commission, a body tasked with referring possible miscarriages of justice to the appeals courts |
| DHL |
Logistics firm which holds the supplier contract for prisoner canteen orders, and operates workshops in both fieldwork prisons |
| DSPD |
Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder, a superseded but still colloquial term used to describe both prisoners with this diagnosis and the specialist prison units used to treat them; see PIPE |
| EBM |
Enhanced Behaviour Monitoring, a supervision measure used in open prisons |
| ETE |
Education, Training, and Employment |
| ETS |
Enhanced Thinking Skills, an OBP |
| FIFA |
A football-themed video game (referred to in interview quotes from Swaleside) |
| HMP |
His Majesty’s Prison |
| HMPPS |
His Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service |
| IEP |
Incentives and Earned Privileges, the now-superseded but still-colloquial name for behavioural incentives schemes used by all prisons |
| IPP |
Imprisonment for Public Protection, a form of indeterminate sentence |
| LTHSE |
Long-term and High-Security Estate, an organisational unit of HMPPS |
| LTI |
Long-Term Imprisonment |
| LTP |
Long-Term Prisoner |
| NHS |
National Health Service |
| NRC |
National Research Committee of HMPPS |
| OASys |
Offender Assessment System, the overarching risk and needs assessment tool used by HMPPS |
| OBP |
Offending Behaviour Programme, a risk-reducing intervention used by HMPPS |
| OGP |
OASys General reoffending Predictor, an actuarial risk assessment methodology employing static and dynamic risk factors |
| OGRS3 |
revised Offender Group Reconviction Score, an actuarial risk assessment methodology employing only static risk factors |
| OVP |
OASys Violence Predictor, an actuarial risk assessment methodology employing static and dynamic risk factors |
| OMU |
Offender Management Unit—the department in all prisons tasked with risk assessment and management |
| P- or C-NOMIS |
National Offender Management Information System, a prison database |
| PE |
Physical Education |
| PIPE |
Psychologically Informed Planned Environment, a form of prison treatment unit combining prison and NHS provision, originally pioneered through DSPD provision, and operating Progression or Pathways regimes in numerous prisons including HMP Swaleside |
| PNC |
Police National Computer, the national criminal records database |
| POM |
Prison Offender Manager, a role for staff in OMUs |
| PQ |
Pain Quotient (see O’Donnell 2014) |
| RC1 |
Security recategorisation form used by OMUs |
| ROTL |
Release on Temporary Licence, aka temporary release from prison, usually for resettlement purposes |
| RoSH |
Risk of Serious Harm, a risk assessment methodology employing static and dynamic risk factors |
| RR |
Risk Reduction or Risk-Reducing |
| SMART |
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-Bound, a target-setting methodology required by sentence planning policies |
| TC |
Therapeutic Community, a holistic approach to long-term RR work and a metonym for prison units where this work takes place |
| TSP |
Thinking Skills Programme, an OBP |
| UK |
United Kingdom |
| US |
United States |