The Journal of Forensic Practice: Volume 19 Issue 2
Research relating to criminology, psychology and evidence-based practice across all forensic settings
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Health and Social CareTable Of Contents
The 3 R’s of risk assessment for violent extremism
Geoff Dean, Graeme PettetThe purpose of this paper is to explore two distinct yet complimentary “structured professional judgement (SPJ)” approaches to terrorist/extremist risk assessment on the…
Inpatient violence in a Dutch forensic psychiatric hospital
Nienke Verstegen, Vivienne de Vogel, Michiel de Vries Robbé, Martijn HelmerhorstInpatient violence can have a major impact in terms of traumatic experiences for victims and witnesses, an unsafe treatment climate, and high-financial costs. Therefore…
A prospective validation study of the START:AV
Marilyn A. Sher, Lucy Warner, Anne McLean, Katharyn Rowe, Ernest GraltonThe purpose of this paper is to explore the validity and reliability of the Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability: Adolescent Version (START:AV) to determine if…
Use of the HCR-20 for violence risk assessment: views of clinicians working in a secure inpatient mental health setting
Geoffrey L. Dickens, Laura E. O’SheaThe purpose of this paper is to explore how raters combine constituent components of Historical Clinical Risk-20 (HCR-20) risk assessment, and how relevant they rate the…
Burnout in clinicians working with offenders with personality disorder
Robert J. Chandler, Andrew Newman, Catherine ButlerThe purpose of this paper is to examine the levels of clinician burnout in a community forensic personality disorder (PD) service, and explores how burnout may arise and…
“I’m not homosexual or heterosexual, I’m paedosexual”: exploring sexual preference for children using interpretive phenomenology
Jamie S. Walton, Simon DuffThere is little research that examines the experiences of individuals who were assessed as having a sexual preference for children. The purpose of this paper is to…
Understanding disruptive behaviour in the juvenile prison estate
Emma Whiteside, Carol A. BondSerious incidents of violent disruption within the national young-persons’ prison estate endanger offenders, staff and visitors and have a significant impact. The purpose…
ISSN:
2050-8794Renamed from:
The British Journal of Forensic PracticeOnline date, start – end:
2013Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr. Carol Ireland
- Dr Neil Gredecki