Title :

Violence risk profile of medium- and high-security NGRI offenders in Belgium

Author(s) :

Pham, Thierry [Auteur]
Université de Mons / University of Mons [UMONS]
Habets, Petra [Auteur]
Saloppé, Xavier [Auteur]
Laboratoire Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives - UMR 9193 [SCALab]
Ducro, Claire [Auteur]
Laboratoire Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives - UMR 9193 [SCALab]
Delaunoit, Benjamin [Auteur]
Pouls, Claudia [Auteur]
Jeandarme, Inge [Auteur]

Journal title :

Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology

Volume number :

30

Pages :

530-550

Publisher :

Informa UK Limited

Publication date :

2019-01-24

English keyword(s) :

Forensic psychiatry
NGRI offenders
violence risk profile

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences cognitives

English abstract : [en]

Under Belgian law, offenders not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) are committed by the courts to forensic mental health treatment. The use of violence risk assessment tools has become routine in these settings. However, ...
Show more >Under Belgian law, offenders not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) are committed by the courts to forensic mental health treatment. The use of violence risk assessment tools has become routine in these settings. However, there are no national statistics regarding violence risk assessment in the Belgian forensic population. A study was undertaken to collect risk assessment data (PCL-R, VRAG, HCR-20) on a large cohort of forensic patients committed to Medium Security units in the Flanders region and in High-Security units in the Walloon region. Flemish patients were expected to present a lower risk compared with their Walloon counterparts. Instead, data yielded by a structured risk assessment method demonstrate the opposite. Moreover, the majority of patients in Flemish facilities had committed violent offenses and were institutionalized for shorter periods whereas the majority of Walloon patients had committed sexual offenses and were institutionalized for markedly longer periods.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS
CHU Lille

Collections :

• Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193

Research team(s) :

Équipe Dynamique Émotionnelle et Pathologies (DEEP)

Submission date :

2020-12-26T17:48:41Z
2021-01-04T15:01:59Z
2024-01-26T08:07:19Z
2024-03-06T08:06:42Z
2024-03-07T13:29:18Z
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