This article describes a systematic review of the psychometric properties of the Short-Term
Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START) and a meta-analysis to assess its predictive …

Protective factors safeguard against undesirable outcomes such as violence, sexual
violence and criminal behavior in general. While a growing body of theoretical and empirical …

Abstract The Structured Professional Judgment (SPJ) approach is an analytical method
used to understand and mitigate the risk for interpersonal violence posed by individual …

Empirical studies have rarely investigated the association between improvements on
dynamic risk and protective factors for violence during forensic psychiatric treatment and …

The complementary use of risk-and protective factors has been one of the major advances in
violence risk assessment in recent years. The present study investigates the value of this two …

Die Behandlung in den Kliniken für Forensische Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie und den
forensisch psychiatrischen Ambulanzen ist Teil des Versorgungsangebots für psychisch …

Forensic psychiatry in Europe is a specialty primarily concerned with individuals who have
either offended or present a risk of doing so, and who also suffer from a psychiatric …

Objective: There is a substantial body of research on risk factors for violent behavior in
adulthood but little empirical study of protective factors and desistance. Method: This study …

The Structured Assessment of Protective Factors for violence risk (SAPROF) has recently
been developed as a risk assessment tool to focus solely on protective factors for (sexual) …

Abstract Background The START and SAPROF are newly developed fourth generation
structured professional judgement instruments assessing strengths and protective factors …