Did you ever analyse a prisoners behaviour and try to find out what motivated them to commit the crime?

Question: Did you ever analyse a prisoners behaviour and try to find out what motivated them to commit the crime?
- Keywords:
  behaviour,
  crime,
  prison psychology
Asked by anon-204902 to Sally on 13 Mar 2019.
- Sally Tilt answered on 13 Mar 2019:
  
  Actually – you’ve pretty much described what my job is! So my colleagues and I try to gather all the information that we can – by talking to prisoners, reading files, talking to people that they have contact with, and use all the information to put together a story (which we call a formulation) to explain why the offence happened. We use research that has explored models of offending to check that what we are suggesting is likely or probable to be the case.
  
  Once we have a story we can then test it, and also explore which if any of the factors are still present for the person, or what sort of situations might happen in future which could lead them to be triggered again.
  
  Thanks for the question – it’s spot on.

Question: Did you ever analyse a prisoners behaviour and try to find out what motivated them to commit the crime?