Positive collateral damage or purposeful design: How sport-based interventions impact the psychological well-being of people in prison

Collectively, the themes and psychological theories identified, offer a new framework for the effective design and delivery of sport based interventions within prison that will potentially maximise benefit to prisoner psychological well-being. The new conceptual framework includes constructs from three psychological theories, suggesting that one theory alone cannot account for the complexities of designing interventions to enhance psychological well-being for prisoners. We invite researchers to go beyond designing ad-hoc programmes and to adopt and evaluate the proposed framework in future trial based research.