Supported by Research Project of the Ministry of Health,Labour and Welfare of Japan.
BACKGROUND The management of offenders with mental disorders has been a significant concern in forensic psychiatry.In Japan,the introduction of the Medical Treatment and Supervision Act in 2005 addressed the issue.How...
The Historical-Clinical-Risk Management Scale 20(HCR-20)is a structured tool to assess the risk of violence and assist in its management.French professionals are reluctant to use it because only a few studies have sho...
Criminal profiling is a process according to the behavioral pattern of offender to analyze the characteristics of the unsub. This article aims to review specific type of offender, psychopaths, to analyze their feature...
Psychological criminogenic factors for identifying terrorist offenders at risk of recidivism in Indonesia remain unclear;hence the adequate assessment to those involved with terrorism and measurement of effective terr...
funding from the European Research Council(ERC)under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme[grant number 787592].
Sweden has witnessed an increase in the rates of sexual crimes including rape.Knowledge of who the offenders of these crimes are is therefore of importance for prevention.We aimed to study characteristics of individua...
Supported by a grant awarded to the corresponding author from the Japanese Ministry of Health,Labour and Welfare as part of a research project entitled “Research of the inclusive care for the psychiatric patients discharged from involuntary admission by the prefectural governor’s order”
BACKGROUND Treatment for offenders with mental disorders is a key concern in public mental health.Provision of adequate psychiatric treatment is important for the offender and their community.An approach used in Japan...
The article presents a brief overview of the main Council of Europe(CoE)standards and principles developed in the course of the past decades and related to the European perspectives regarding the treatment of offender...
The elderly population is growing fast. With this changing demographic fact we can expect to see overall crime rates among the elderly growing right along with it. This study explored people’s knowledge about elderly...
supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre
AIM To investigate factors predicting treatment completion and treatment outcome of the Reasoning and Rehabilitation Mental Health Programme(R&R2MHP) cognitive skills programme for mentally disordered offenders. METHO...
This paper explores the visual construction and representation of female sex offenders. It utilises the case study of Vanessa George, a nursery worker who was involved in the exchange of indecent imagery of children v...