The British Journal of Forensic Practice: Volume 11 Issue 2
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Ecological validity and risk assessment: the importance of assessing context for intellectually disabled sexual offenders
Douglas BoerIn psychological testing, the term ‘ecological validity’ (EV) refers to the degree to which a test assesses (or estimates) via a proxy task a person's ability to do a ‘real‐life’…
Patient‐to‐patient bullying in secure psychiatric services: exploring the value of official records for documenting patient‐to‐patient bullying
Joanne Henson, Jane IrelandThe study presented here examines the reporting of patient‐to‐patient bullying in a high secure psychiatric hospital housing adult men. It examines official records of bullying…
A retrospective study of historical risk factors for pathological arson in adults with mild learning disabilities
Julia Kelly, Alasdair Goodwill, Nick Keene, Su ThriftThis pilot study investigated three historical risk factors for pathological arson identified in Jackson's Only Viable Option theory (Jackson, 1994), which views the act as an…
Treatment need and provision in medium secure care
Jason Davies, Kate OldfieldIndividuals being treated in medium secure hospitals have typically engaged in some form of offending in other service settings or while in the community. Although psychological…
Considering physical intervention as a manual handling procedure: learning lessons from our general nursing colleagues
Brendon StubbsMental health staff are at risk of sustaining injury from the application of physical intervention, two recent studies reporting that the risk is almost one in every five…