ICPA2024 PID148 William Sage and Natalie Parrett

Lived experience of people convicted of sexual offences failing in open prison or on release: How can desistence be supported?

Authors

Mr William Sage

Senior Counterterrorism and Corrections Advisor, International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP), USA

William “Bill” Sage is ICITAP’s Headquarters Senior Counterterrorism and Corrections Advisor specializing in a variety of different fields to include intelligence, corrections, law enforcement, and counterterrorism. While he officially began in his role on January of 2021, Bill has assisted ICITAP with a variety of different projects during the past eight years. In addition to working with ICITAP, Bill has provided training or assessments to a host of various countries in the field of Intelligence and has extensive international experience working with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Counterterrorism, the International Institute for Justice and Rule of Law, and the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo. Bill has assisted with the development of numerous intelligence units within law enforcement and corrections enhance their intelligence gathering and analytical capabilities specifically for countering violent extremism. Bill holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Security Administration from Northern Michigan University. He is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the American Correctional Association.

Ms Natalie Parrett

Psychological Services Director, Justice, Serco, Serco Limited

Natalie Parrett (MSc, CPsychol, AFBPsS) is a Principal Forensic Psychologist with 23 years experience working in prisons and secure hospitals in the UK. She is now the Director of Psychological Services for Serco prisons in the UK, providing the strategic leadership, oversight, is clinically responsible for the governance for Psychological Services and provides consultation and advice on psychological matters to the Prison Operational Directors. She has a particular interest in innovating and developing psychologically-informed prison practice and culture. Natalie is a peer reviewer for academic journals and her authored/co-authored research includes: “Who’s holding the trauma? ‘RE-ACT’: Increasing Prison Officer insights and reducing violence in prisons”; “Assessing female sexual offenders’ motivations and cognitions: An exploratory study”; “A re-examination of female child molesters’ implicit theories: Evidence of female specificity?” and “An interpretative phenomenological analysis of prison officer experiences when working with personality disordered offenders with intellectual disabilities.”

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