Although fairly frequent in psychiatric in-patient, episodes of aggression/violence are mainly
limited to verbal aggression, but the level of general health is significantly lower in nurses …

Papadopoulos C, Ross J, Stewart D, Dack C, James K, Bowers L. The antecedents of
violence and aggression within psychiatric in‐patient settings. Objective: To systematically …

Crime is an expensive aspect of society, and each year huge amounts of public money are
spent on the courts, police, probation services, and prisons, while the human costs in terms …

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 …

Girls and women represent a minority of forensic mental health and prison populations.
However, studies worldwide suggest that there has been a steady increase in the number of …

To gain insight into the relatively small, but increasing group of women in forensic
psychiatry, a retrospective multicentre study was started gathering information from the files …

There is general consensus that dynamic factors ought to be considered in the assessment
of violence risk, but little direct evidence exists to demonstrate that within-individual …

The present study examined risk for inpatient aggression, including treatment-related
changes in risk, using a battery of 5 forensic instruments. The relative contributions of …

Psychiatric disorders are often associated with disturbed sleep. Poor sleep can attenuate
emotional control, including the regulation of aggression, and thus, may increase the risk of …

The number of aggressive incidents committed by patients in (secure) mental health care is
high. The present study examined the relation between institutional climate (support, growth …