PURPOSE: The criminal career paradigm is a major research focus in criminology, and the
current state-of-the-art review explicates research published between 2000 and 2011 …

The field of violence risk assessment has made substantial strides in the past four decades.
In large part, these advances reflect the addition of purpose-designed risk assessment …

Cognitive deficits are a key risk factor for severe and persistent antisocial behavior (ASB);
however, whether improving cognitive functioning reduces ASB remains unclear. To …

Abstract The Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START; CD Webster, ML
Martin, J. Brink, TL Nicholls, & SL Desmarais, 2009; CD Webster, ML Martin, J. Brink, TL …

IntroductionWe examined physical violence in a large, multihospital state psychiatric system
during 2011–2013, and associated demographic and clinical characteristics of violent …

Although violence risk assessment knowledge and practice has advanced over the past few
decades, it remains practically difficult to decide which measures clinicians should use to …

Background Aggression committed by patients with schizophrenia and other serious and
persistent mental illnesses represents a major public health concern affecting patients, their …

This study explores variables that predict physical violence in 614 (forensic) psychiatric
inpatients. All violent incidents that occurred in a Dutch forensic psychiatric hospital between …

This prospective study describes the predictive validity of the Historical Clinical Risk
Management-20 Scale (HCR-20) when applied to clinical practice among 109 male …

Purpose Inpatient violence can have a major impact in terms of traumatic experiences for
victims and witnesses, an unsafe treatment climate, and high-financial costs. Therefore, the …