Risk assessment and management in criminal justice and psychiatry

Prins, Herschel

doi:10.1080/09585189608409916

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“…However, this is an inexact science, a contentious issue and has been the focus of immense debate over the last three decades. Risk can be defined as ‘the probability of a bad consequence’ (Oxford University Press 1995), or as the likelihood that a particular adverse event will recur (Prins 1996). Its central focus is around outcome and probability.…”

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Violence and aggression: a literature review

Woods¹,

Ashley²

2007

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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This paper reports the results of a literature review that was undertaken to provide background for a small pilot study that introduced violence measurement instruments that was to assist the development of nursing practice on an acute psychiatric unit. Multiple databases were searched, focusing on publications since 1994: CINAHL, Ovid Healthstar, Ovid MEDLINE (R), EMBASE, and PsycINFO. The search used the following four groups of key word alternatives (used in truncated form to allow for ending permutations) in combination with each other: violence, aggression, dangerous; prediction, assessment, factor, risk, issue, cause, reason; mental, psychiatric; inpatient, short-term, acute, admission. Searching was supplemented with footnote chasing of those papers retrieved and existing resources of the first author. Consequently, the synthesis of the results discussed cannot be considered a systematic review of the literature and is a reflection of some of the key issues found in the literature.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Violence and aggression: a literature review

Woods¹,

Ashley²

2007

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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“…This is related to the concept of risk, of course, and with that to a definition of risk. Risk evidently points to the future and includes therefore an element of prediction, 29 and risk is also linked to perceptions of seriousness, as it is not every negative consequence which should be considered but only such effects that are serious enough to justify planning and prevention. 30 In fact, it is contextualization which makes the concepts of risk, danger and dangerousness useful and meaningful concepts.…”

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Crime Risk Assessment, Legislation, and the Prevention of Serious Crime – Comparative Perspectives

Albrecht

Kilchling

2002

Eur J Crime Crim Law Justice

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“…Prins (1996) defines risk as the probability of a bad consequence or as the likelihood that a particular adverse event will occur. Forensic risk (or dangerousness) ‘is the potential ability to cause serious physical and psychological harm to others.…”

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A concept analysis of forensic risk

Kettles

2004

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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Forensic risk is a term used in relation to many forms of clinical practice, such as assessment, intervention and management. Rarely is the term defined in the literature and as a concept it is multifaceted. Concept analysis is a method for exploring and evaluating the meaning of words. It gives precise definitions, both theoretical and operational, for use in theory, clinical practice and research. A concept analysis provides a logical basis for defining terms through providing defining attributes, case examples (model, contrary, borderline, related), antecedents and consequences and the implications for nursing. Concept analysis helps us to refine and define a concept that derives from practice, research or theory. This paper will use the strategy of concept analysis to find a working definition for the concept of forensic risk. In conclusion, the historical background and literature are reviewed using concept analysis to bring the term into focus and to define it more clearly. Forensic risk is found to derive both from forensic practice and from risk theory. A proposed definition of forensic risk is given.

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Risk assessment and management in criminal justice and psychiatry

Cited by 26 publications

References 28 publications

Violence and aggression: a literature review

Violence and aggression: a literature review

Crime Risk Assessment, Legislation, and the Prevention of Serious Crime – Comparative Perspectives

A concept analysis of forensic risk

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