Lawrence Jones is head of psychology at Rampton Hospital. Lawrence Jones started his career working in the community with former lifers, serious offenders and high secure hospital patients, after they had been released. He went on to work at HMP Wormwood Scrubs where he trained as a Forensic Psychologist working with Lifers and going on to work in and eventually manage a wing based therapeutic community. He developed and piloted a CBT model for running Therapeutic Communities. He moved from HMP Wormwood Scrubs to Rampton High Secure Hospital where he trained as a Clinical psychologist and worked with people with a personality disorder diagnosis. He then moved to work in the Peaks Unit, also in Rampton Hospital, eventually working as Lead psychologist there, managing the treatment programs and developing and maintaining specialist services for individuals who have personality disorder diagnoses who have typically not responded to or been able to access services in other high secure settings. More recently he has taken on the role of Head of Psychology at Rampton Hospital. He is a former chair of the Division of Forensic Psychology and teaches on the Sheffield and Leicester Clinical Psychology doctorate courses and the Nottingham University Forensic Psychology Doctorate. He is an honorary (clinical) associate professor at Nottingham University. He has published in a range of areas including therapeutic communities, working with people who have personality disorder diagnoses who have offended sexually, case formulation with people with personality disorder diagnoses, iatrogenic responses to intervention, motivation, offence paralleling behaviour (OPB) and trauma informed care.