The Journal of Forensic Practice: Volume 19 Issue 2

Editorial

Carol Ireland, Neil Gredecki

The 3 R’s of risk assessment for violent extremism

Geoff Dean, Graeme Pettet

The purpose of this paper is to explore two distinct yet complimentary “structured professional judgement (SPJ)” approaches to terrorist/extremist risk assessment on the vexing…

Inpatient violence in a Dutch forensic psychiatric hospital

Nienke Verstegen, Vivienne de Vogel, Michiel de Vries Robbé, Martijn Helmerhorst

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…

A prospective validation study of the START:AV

Marilyn A. Sher, Lucy Warner, Anne McLean, Katharyn Rowe, Ernest Gralton

The 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 it has…

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’Shea

The 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 tool to…

Burnout in clinicians working with offenders with personality disorder

Robert J. Chandler, Andrew Newman, Catherine Butler

The 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 be…

“I’m not homosexual or heterosexual, I’m paedosexual”: exploring sexual preference for children using interpretive phenomenology

Jamie S. Walton, Simon Duff

There 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 investigate the…

Understanding disruptive behaviour in the juvenile prison estate

Emma Whiteside, Carol A. Bond

Serious incidents of violent disruption within the national young-persons’ prison estate endanger offenders, staff and visitors and have a significant impact. The purpose of this…